Professional Development
The Executive Function Project offers a research-informed, schoolwide professional development framework that aligns with your school's vision to build critical student executive function skills . Through a five-phase approach—Align, Train, Implement, Monitor, and Sustain—we provide educators with the practical tools, data systems, and coaching necessary to build lasting habits that empower students for college, career, and life .
Build Systems That Make Executive Function Stick
Discover our research-informed, schoolwide approach to building executive function skills that empower students for success.
Student Outcomes
Stronger Executive Function Skills
Students learn to manage themselves, their learning, and their future
Improved Academic Success
Driven by consistent, schoolwide execution and routines.
Greater Independence & Resilience
Fostered through explicit instruction and metacognitive practices.
Future Readiness: Preparing students confidently for college, career, and life .
Bridging the SEL Implementation Gap: CASEL Alignment Guide
Many school districts face an "implementation gap" where universal SEL standards are adopted, but students lack the predictable cognitive skills required to execute them . Our modular executive function curriculum bridges this gap by turning CASEL’s abstract competencies into explicit, real-world, and learnable skills .
This comprehensive alignment guide and crosswalk details how our 12 core executive function capacities systematically activate, map onto, and support the five core CASEL competencies across classrooms, schools, families, and communities .
Ready to Get Started?
Do you or your school currently provide direct instruction of executive function skills? Use the survey below to assess your current policies and practices and take action steps to improve these systems. We offer In-person and online Professional Development for public and private schools, coming soon.
School & District Leaders Survey
Teachers & Professionals Survey