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Executive Function

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You are the best teacher I’ve ever had, and I take pride in saying that. I look forward to seeing you and keeping in touch with you in the future.
— 6th grade student :)
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executive function

When it is all a little out of focus…

She has a true appreciation for each child’s strengths and challenges and seeks to support them in a variety of dynamic ways
— Nancy Vascellaro, Learning Specialist, City and Country School
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Executive Function is more than just being organized. It is a way of thinking. An approach. It is how you learn.

Executive Function training involves using planners and creating systems to organize and prioritize.

Ponder, Picture & Perform.

First we launch the student's thinking within a mobile and versatile framework that they can implement both inside and outside of the class. We have procedures in place that makes the learning process predictable and dependable. We take the mystery, and therefore the anxiety, out of it. And then we initiative true wonder and fun. We visualize possibilities and explore. Finally, we answer the question or complete the task.

Wonder, Watch & Why.

Follow the teacher's lesson. Wonder about why it is being taught, why it is important, why it works. Watch for patterns, watch the instuctions, and watch for what types of questions and tasks you are being asked to complete. Follow Bloom's Taxonomy all the way to "your why." Why does this matter to you? Once the student successfully creates meaning out of content, they have turned information into knowledge and own it for life.

Read, Review & Ready to Re-design!

Read from the assigned text. Explore additional research. Review any thinking questions or important facts. Quiz yourself to see if you are ready to relay the information. Then, the most exciting part. Jump! Make a new thought! Extend the possibilities of the author. Challenge tradition. Redesign the world. This is where each child's particular unique brand of genius is encouraged!

Jennifer is empathetic, patient, warm and truly caring for her students, and her teaching and counseling skills reflect not only a high level of training, but uncanny intuitive abilities. On several occasions, Jennifer has been the sole staff member to successfully connect with the most disturbed and hard-to-reach adolescents. Opening these lines of communication has literally been life saving, as students have gone on to explore deep-seeded issues in therapy and inpatient care, often expanding on writing elicited in Jennifer’s classes. In short, Jennifer had one of the smoothest and most productive transitions into Stevenson I have seen over the past 11 years.
— Thomas Weston, Advisor & Teacher, Stevenson School
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you might be a genius.

true story.

“Jennifer has a propensity to bring out the best in her students. She provides a safe and encouraging classroom environment where students can speak their truths and find their most authentic selves through their writings and discussions. She is a nurturing teacher who shares her experience with her students and relates to them to help them feel comfortable and secure and find their own voices.

Her classroom is decorated with student work including poetry, collage and prose and a fleeing of excitement and optimism is present. She teaches “Identity in Literature”, Creative Writing, “Talent & Vision”, and “Personal Voice”. As you can tell by the titles of these English classes, Jennifer is creative and inventive in her approach. Her students like her and trust her.”
— Nancy MacDonald, LMHC, Stevenson School