PES Professional Development (25-26) by Nina Willette

What do we need as teachers?

nwillette22 — 2025-09-02 17:52:11 UTC

What do students need?

nwillette22 — 2025-09-02 17:52:22 UTC

What can we do to take care of ourselves?

nwillette22 — 2025-09-02 17:52:38 UTC

Similarities/Differences

nwillette22 — 2025-09-03 11:56:41 UTC

nwillette22 — 2025-09-23 17:55:42 UTC

nwillette22 — 2025-09-23 17:56:23 UTC

Agenda

nwillette22 — 2025-09-23 17:57:45 UTC

Today, we will focus on executive functioning skills. We will take a look at what these are and how we can support students. We will think about one specific student and see if we can determine the factors that are related to executive functioning, working towards creating a skill building plan.

nwillette22 — 2025-09-23 18:11:01 UTC

2025-09-24 13:04:56 UTC

Self-talk bracelets

Games and being purposeful about putting distractions out

emotions check in - using color blocks with kids - older kids (check in journal, slip and tally marks

Executive Functioning Folder

2025-09-24 13:05:35 UTC

Executive Functioning - Session 2

nwillette22 — 2025-10-14 17:45:44 UTC

nwillette22 — 2025-10-14 17:53:30 UTC

What is one thing you can do in your classroom to help teach executive functioning skills?

nwillette22 — 2025-10-14 17:56:33 UTC

What is the biggest thing you see kids struggle with when it comes to executive functioning skills?

nwillette22 — 2025-10-14 17:56:53 UTC

As a school, what can we adopt for executive function characters to help develop plans/activities to help students?

nwillette22 — 2025-10-14 17:57:26 UTC

EF Characters

nwillette22 — 2025-10-15 00:28:18 UTC

Embedding EF

nwillette22 — 2025-10-15 00:30:08 UTC

nwillette22 — 2025-10-15 12:14:43 UTC

EF Characters

nwillette22 — 2025-10-15 12:44:23 UTC

Characters and Timeline

nwillette22 — 2025-10-15 12:53:01 UTC

Out of the the ten characters - which ones could go together? Create new characters for PES. In grade level groups, look for lessons to teach specific characters - think about which ones you would start with. Be sure to include some practice activities for kids. Later, we will build these EF skills into our self directed learner and our rubric to help students self-assess.

EF Folder - Add Lessons Here

nwillette22 — 2025-10-15 13:02:20 UTC

Qualities of a Self-Directed Learner

nwillette22 — 2025-10-26 15:46:30 UTC

Decide on the core qualities of a PES self directed learner
In groups - create I can statements for one quality
In groups - create a K-2 and a 3-5 lesson that could be used to teach students about the quality
As a team, we will create a one page document for students to self-assess the qualities

nwillette22 — 2025-10-26 16:02:44 UTC

Self Directed Learner Qualities

nwillette22 — 2025-10-28 15:49:14 UTC

Resilience, Grit, Awareness, Innovation, Empathy

nwillette22 — 2025-10-29 12:57:04 UTC

Qualities of a Self Directed Learner

nwillette22 — 2025-11-03 19:48:03 UTC