Two-Day Train‑the‑Trainer Institute: Train-the-Trainer: Current, Best Strategies to Improve Executive Function Skills (Grades K-12) Presented by Lisa Rogers Outstanding Presenter, Behavior Intervention Specialist,Author, and Teacher Trainer

Designed Specifically for Grades K-12: School and District Trainers, Teacher Leaders, Classroom Teachers, and Administrators

• Train your teachers to use the most current, practical strategies to help students strengthen executive function skills … Strategies for improving working memory, planning and organization, attention control, inhibitory control, and shifting attention
• Train your teachers how to use positive intervention strategies to help students with executive function challenges
• Build expertise among your staff to develop and use effective consequences that teach students executive function skills … Learn how to be instructive versus punitive and help students learn to self-regulate and solve problems
• Receive critical information on how to deliver high-quality, engaging, and effective training sessions to your staff along with a comprehensive digital handbook full of training resources

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Do you have students who struggle with executive function skills? These critical skills that help us plan, focus, prioritize, and control our impulses seem more difficult to teach than ever. When students struggle with executive function skills, they may have difficulty with tasks such as staying on task, following directions, and managing their emotions. This can lead to disruptive behaviors in the classroom, which can make it difficult for them to learn and for their teachers to teach.

This two-day train-the-trainer institute will leave you with greater knowledge and with the skills you need to train other teachers or staff. You will gain the tools critical to helping all students develop executive function skills. You will learn how best to train other staff about the different components of executive function, specific tools and tips for helping students improve their skills, and the most current strategies for improving learning and decreasing disruptive behaviors.

Lisa Rogers, outstanding presenter and behavior intervention specialist, has designed this fast-paced, strategy-packed, train-the-trainer opportunity to train your teachers and staff to use practical solutions to teach the skills that will help your students be more successful, both socially and academically. You will leave this training with the precise tools needed to train other teachers and staff. From dozens of strategies to use immediately to reach your students who lack the skills to self-regulate, follow directions, share, take turns, stay focused and remain calm in stressful situations, to presentation tips and strategies proven to be most effective when training others.

This two-day train-the-trainer institute focuses on how to increase the executive function skills of your students and how to implement a comprehensive plan for training other teachers. Participants who attend will begin to build expertise in applying specific interventions to significantly increase executive function skills that increase student learning and promote positive behaviors.

A Practical, Two-Day Train-the-Trainer Institute to Train Your Teachers to Improve Your Students' Executive Function Skills

Send one or more staff members or a team to this training program and they will return to your school(s) with professional development strategies and resources to support and train your teachers to work more effectively with students who need to improve their executive function skills.

• Participants will learn:
• Tools and tips for training other teachers and staff
• Practical strategies to address executive function weaknesses that prevent students from finding success in school
• How to implement executive function best practices at the classroom level and the school level
• Demonstrations, activities, examples, checklists, and much more, including a comprehensive digital resource handbook you can take back and begin using the many resources immediately as you train other teachers and staff

This Two-Day Train-the-Trainer Program is Cost Effective

If you are interested in providing high-quality training in working with challenging behaviors of students to your teachers, school(s) or district, this is the perfect opportunity. Send one teacher or a team and they will leave with an extensive digital resource training handbook filled with the tools needed for their own training. The focus of the two-day training will be on implementing the crucial components necessary to improve students' executive function skills. You will leave with presentation tips and tools as well as dozens of practical strategies that can be used to help students who have difficulty maintaining attention and organizing their time, tasks, personal space, and materials skills.

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

• Training tips and tools to lead others in strengthening the executive function skills of all students
• Dozens of practical strategies designed to increase attention, focus and impulse control
• Strategies for co-teaching, inclusive and general and special education classrooms
• Simple yet effective strategies for training others
• Executive function skills to increase student success in social emotional functioning
• Flexible problem-solving strategies to fit the needs of specific students
• Emotional regulation strategies you can use immediately
• Memory strategies for studying, test-taking, homework, and long-term project planning
• Clearly define key executive function skills and how they impact academic and social success
• Low-prep strategies you can use immediately as you train other teachers and staff
• Proven ideas to help students plan their homework, manage short- and long-term projects/assignments and carry out tasks to completion
• Set up all your students for success in an inclusive classroom
• Dozens of practical strategies for training other teachers and staff

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

I am excited to invite you to a unique, two-day train-the-trainer institute focusing on best practices for teaching executive function skills to Grades K-12 students.

As an educator, you know that executive function skills are essential for success in school, work, and life. These skills include things like planning, organizing, managing time, and controlling impulses. Unfortunately, many students struggle with executive function skills. This can lead to challenges in the classroom, such as difficulty following directions, staying on task, and completing assignments.

Join me at this unique, two-day train-the-trainer institute to discover valuable tools and practical strategies that your schools can use immediately to help students who are struggling every day with executive function skills. You'll walk away with tips, tricks, and resources for training your colleagues in these highly effective practices. In this institute, you will learn dozens of practical, doable strategies to teach students to plan, organize, and manage their time. We will also look at how to increase students' ability to focus and stay engaged. You will leave with new ways to both help your students develop executive function skills and strategies you can use to train your fellow educators.

This will be an active, fast-paced, two-day event filled with activities and applications. You will have the opportunity to transfer and personalize training tips to make them your own. Don't miss this chance to discover a full supply of ideas and tools to use as you train others who work to increase the executive function skills of Grades K-12 students.

I look forward to meeting you at the institute.

Sincerely,
Lisa Rogers

P.S. Be prepared to leave with dozens of practical solutions to help all students develop executive function skills in a fun and engaging way. You will also be able to use these strategies to train others in your school(s) and district. I hope to see you there!

Who Should Attend

Grades K-12: School and District Trainers, Teacher Leaders, Classroom Teachers, and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:

• Step-by-step strategies for meeting the needs of your students with executive function deficits
• Ideas, tools and tips for training other teachers and staff
• A wealth of free resources to share with your teachers
• Ready-to-use templates for training teachers to better support students with executive function weaknesses

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This institute provides participants a wonderful opportunity to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in executive function skills to enhance their programs.

Consultation Available
Lisa Rogers will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option
Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

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