What You Need to Know about Movement and Cognition
- Explore the new neuroscience of movement and cognition
- Teach “Brain Lessons” to increase the efficacy of self-coaching executive function skills
- Define & teach executive function skills to children
- Embodied cognition – Learning is a whole-body experience
- Bring daily physical activity into the classroom and clinic
Current Research on the Role of Movement in Learning
- Physical activity improves health and academic achievement
- Types of exercise that will enhance executive function
- How to Implement a Movement Schedule
- Using collaboration and student creativity to improve behavior
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
ACTIVITIES, TOOLS, AND STRATEGIES
Alerting, Attending and Energizing
- Disappearing Beats: Experience Attention & Memory in Action
- We are Musical
- Musical Entrainment
- Foundational Movements
- Measures are Magic!
- Movimals
- 1 2 3 Action
- CogniTap
Self-Regulation
- The difference between self-regulation and self-control
- Task demands and perceived stress
- Stressor identification & arousal states
- Slowing down for better cognitive control
- Entrainment and Synchrony
- Entrain me (Walk & Bounce with me)
- Co-Regulation – Swing, sway, sing
- The Music Carpet Ride
- Head, Shoulders, Hips & Knees
- Rhythm Ball
- 3, 5, 7, 9 For Calming in Time
Attention/Memory
- The BIG 3 – Attention, working memory & self-control
- Cognitive Conversations
- Brain Lessons
- My Attention Engine
- My Memory Window
- Cat, Dog, Tree
- Slow & Quick Encoding and Retrieval
- Having a Ball!
- The Secret is The Sequence
- The Parts of the Task Game
Behavior
- Anxiety, agitation and hopefulness
- What to say, think and do when children are escalating
- The power of self-talk
- Who’s Jelly Beans Am I Holding?
- The Purpose Circle
- What’s In It For Me?
- Anger Mountain
- My Anger Manager
- I’ll Give This 10


