2-Day Advanced Course: Executive Functioning Skills for Children & Adolescents: 50 Cognitive-Motor Activities to Improve Attention, Memory, Response Inhibition and Self-Regulation - Seminar
2-Day Advanced Course: Executive Functioning Skills for Children & Adolescents: 50 Cognitive-Motor Activities to Improve Attention, Memory, Response Inhibition and Self-Regulation
- Where:
- PLAINVIEW, NY
- When:
- Thursday, February 27, 2020 - Friday, February 28, 2020
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Course Description:
In this interactive course, Lynne Kenney, Psy.D., pediatric psychologist, author and international educator, will show you how to integrate the newest research in neuroscience, kinesiology and neurocognitive education for students to behave better and learn more efficiently.
You will experience 50 developmentally progressive cognitive-exercises and coaching activities to enliven your classroom, office and clinic. Learn how to improve cognition, enhance learning and empower children to be better thinkers with motor movement, sequencing, attending, self-regulation and memory activities.
Dress comfortably, as we will be integrating movement throughout the day.
FREE Activities for Your Toolbox
In this interactive course, Lynne Kenney, Psy.D., pediatric psychologist, author and international educator, will show you how to integrate the newest research in neuroscience, kinesiology and neurocognitive education for students to behave better and learn more efficiently.
You will experience 50 developmentally progressive cognitive-exercises and coaching activities to enliven your classroom, office and clinic. Learn how to improve cognition, enhance learning and empower children to be better thinkers with motor movement, sequencing, attending, self-regulation and memory activities.
Dress comfortably, as we will be integrating movement throughout the day.
FREE Activities for Your Toolbox
- Printable Rhythm and Movement Cards
- The Love Notes from Musical Thinking for Self-Regulation, Attention and Memory
- The Kinetic Classroom Rubric
- Prek-3rd Grade Self-Regulation Transition Activities
- Spotlight: Our Visual-Motor Cognitive-Visual Activities PreK-12th Grades
- CogniTap Desk Sequences PreK-12th Grades
- Printable Cognitive Coaching Activities
- Research Bibliography
Objectives:
- Implement research-based activities educators, teachers and clinicians can use to improve thinking, self-regulation, learning and behavior.
- Determine how to improve classroom cohesion and climate with physical activities that require thought engaging attention and memory.
- Articulate the meaningful relationship between cognition and motor movement in learning and school achievement.
- Explore bringing cognitively engaging physical activity to your classroom and practice with coordinative cognitive-motor activities.
- Practice over 50 coaching and movement activities you can do to help children with ADHD, dyslexia, ODD, sensory processing challenges, dyspraxia, anxiety and behavioral issues.
- Demonstrate how to enhance collaboration and cooperation in your classroom by helping students become “cognitive scientists” empowered to help their own learning.
- Understand the role of tempo, rhythm and timing in cognition.
- Design rhythmic calming strategies for on-the-spot behavior management.
- Develop confidence in creating your own collaborative cognitive-motor work with your students.
- Articulate how rhythmic “heavy” motor work can be more effective for dysregulated children then talking when a child is in distress.
- Analyze the biological precursors to better executive functions, learning and behavior.
- Practice cognitive-movement strategies to help children move out of the stress response into an alert state of calm.
OUTLINE
Priming the Brain for Learning
Improving Behavior with Cognitive-Motor Movement
The “Cognitive Conversation” about Self-Control (Response Inhibition) +Impulsivity
Priming the Brain for Learning
- Impact of brain stimulation, stress, ACE’s and trauma on learning
- Create low-stress-high-connection learning environments
- Biological precursors to learning
- New preliteracy
- Executive function precursors
- 5 early predictors of academic success
- Create a calm classroom culture with kindness, respect & trust
- Importance of collaboration, agency and creativity in learning and behavior
- Balance and weight shift
- Postural control for better learning
- Foundational movement patterns & sequences
- Types of patterns and elements
- How to build a movement sequence
- Activities
- Balance activity
- Teaching weight shift
- Head, shoulders, hips & knees
- Can everybody count
- Initial brain primer sequences for attention, memory and self-control
- We are musical
- Using The Love Notes
- Measures are magic!
- ”We Move on the Beat in Time Together”
- Sequence is the secret
- Activities
- Musical thinking rhythm cards
- Communication need sets musically
- Movin/ and Groovin’ movement mixes
- Creating your own standing patterns
- Executive functions CAN be learned
- Build core executive functions for achievement
- Cognitive skills building process
- Teach children about their brains
- Make executive functions transparent
- ”Cognitive Conversations”
- Activities
- 8 brain lessons for students
- Cognitive conversation prompts
- The THINK Cards
- SAM Call and response cards
- My Attention Engine
- Attention is more than one thing
- Attention cycle
- Types of attention
- Activities
- Prompts and questions
- Raise mindful awareness
- My Attention Engine
- Songs and chants
- Interactive conversational practice
- Alert Attention
- 1-5 minute desk percussion activities
- Stadium effect
- Compositions & orchestras
- Activities
- Table top tap
- Repeat the beat
- CogniTap
- Paradiddles
- Role of music in learning
- Build musical skills through auditory channels
- Imagination in spatial drumming
- Meludia Method
- Taiko
- Activities
- In Time (Advanced Brain Technologies)
- Solfege
- Patterns
- Sequences
- Elements
- Sound and movement mixes
- Cueing
- Activities
- You’re a conductor
- We’re an orchestra
- What the research says about the precursors to reading
- Different types of dyslexia
- Role of speed of processing in reading
- Temporality, timing and prosody in reading
- Are rhymers really readers?
- Activities
- Narrative language in daily life
- Visual story-telling – sequencing and patterning in pictures
- Lullabies, folk songs and rhyming songs
- Circle pattern rhyming activities
- What is Spotlight and how was it developed?
- Collaboratively reading the visual-motor language
- Importance of cognitive cueing
- Types of patterns and elements
- Use spotlight in various settings
- Activities
- Initial instructions to the student(s)
- Mirror and alternate
- Planer, lateral and contralateral movements for learning
- Create your own sequences
- The one spotlight movement circle
- Developmentally progressive cognitive engagement
- Increase cognitive-motor demands
- Engage creativity and collaboration
- Engage the reluctant learner
- Advanced mix and match elements, patterns and sequences
- Brain primers
- Working, short-term, long-term, visual working, verbal (auditory) working memory
- Encode and retrieval
- Art, music and movement improve science
- Activities
- File cabinet visual prompt
- Retrieve math facts with Quick Rick
- Encoding spelling with Slow Mo
- Working memory enhancement strategies
- Visual memory enhancement techniques
Improving Behavior with Cognitive-Motor Movement
The “Cognitive Conversation” about Self-Control (Response Inhibition) +Impulsivity
- Achieve better classroom cohesion, socialization and behavior with responsive movement
- Difference between self-regulation and self-control
- Response inhibition and impulsivity
- Types of impulsivity (motor, verbal, cognitive)
- ”Felt-Sense” of slowing down (self-control and self-regulation)
- 5 quick effective responses to dysregulated kids
- Between urge, action and behavior
- Trauma, cognition, and dysinhibition
- Block repetitive anxious thoughts
- Activities
- Think-Ups
- Mary and Her Me Me Me’s!
- Periwinkle and Pace
- Push, pull and hold
- How does proprioceptive feedback calm the brain and body?
- What does the counting or cueing sound like?
- Activities
- Successful transitions
- Stationary holds with the Musical Thinking Rhythm cards
- Large-motor heavy play
- Hand play
- Self-regulation: emotional, cognitive, sensory/motor
- Self-regulation as energy management
- Use entrainment to reciprocally regulate
- 3, 5, 7, 9 for calming in time
- Activities
- Co-regulation
- Retro Walking Dressage Patterns
- Yoga patterns
- Tai Chi patterns
- Mirror writing
- Self-monitoring worksheet
- How bean bags engage visual tracking
- How bean bags engage attention and memory
- Hand-eye patterns & sequences
- Activities
- One and two person bean bag activities
- One and two person ball activities
- Change cueing & counts for alerting and calming
- Activities
- Co-regulating with one person
- Back-to-back listening activity
- Use music and metronomes
Target Audience
- PreK-12th Grade Educators
- Special Educators
- Psychologists
- School Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Occupational Therapists
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Other Helping Professionals
LYNNE KENNEY, PSYD
Dr. Lynne Kenney is the nation’s leading pediatric psychologist in the development of classroom cognitive-physical activity programs for students grades K-8. She develops curriculum, programming, and activities to improve children’s cognition through coordinative cognitive-motor movement, executive function skill building strategies, and social-emotional learning. Her current educational program is CogniMoves®, a classroom cognitive-motor movement program, co-developed with Benjamin S. Bunney, MD, Former Chairman Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. CogniMoves® is designed to strengthen executive function skills in K-3 students.
Dr. Kenney is a pediatric psychologist on the language & cognition team at Wellington-Alexander Center for the Treatment of Dyslexia, Scottsdale, Arizona. She has advanced fellowship training in forensic psychology and developmental pediatric psychology from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Harbor-UCLA/UCLA Medical School. As an international educator, researcher, and author, she is dedicated to improving the trajectory of children’s learning, particularly in high-need, under-resourced communities. Dr. Kenney’s books include Brain Primers, 2020 (Kuczala & Kenney); 70 Play Activities for Better thinking, Self-Regulation, Learning and Behavior (Kenney & Comizio, 2016); the Social-Emotional Literacy program, Bloom Your Room™; Musical Thinking™, and Bloom: 50 Things To Say, Think and Do with Anxious, Angry and Over-the-Top Kids (Kenney & Young, 2015). Her most recent endeavor is Cognitivities™, an original collection of portable mats that combine music, art, and movement developed with Fit and Fun Playscapes. Launched in 2024, this is the first Roll-Out Activities® mat of its kind, helping children with cognitive skills, executive function, and self-regulation in a calming and engaging way. In development, FlowMoves™ cognitive-motor movement cards for high-need communities and families to support co-regulation and self-regulation.
Since 1985, Dr. Kenney has worked as an educator in community services with national organizations including the Neurological Health Foundation, Head Start, Understood.org, HandsOn Phoenix, SparkPE, the First Nations in Canada, and Points of Light (Generation On). Dr. Kenney values working with Title I Schools.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Lynne Kenney is the creator of CogniSuite & The Kinetic Classroom and the co-creator of 5n45. She is the co-owner of Move2Learn, LLC and has an employment relationship with Wellington-Alexander Center for the Treatment of Dyslexia and receives compensation as a consultant. Dr. Kenney receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Lynne Kenney is Play Math Ambassador.
Dr. Kenney is a pediatric psychologist on the language & cognition team at Wellington-Alexander Center for the Treatment of Dyslexia, Scottsdale, Arizona. She has advanced fellowship training in forensic psychology and developmental pediatric psychology from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Harbor-UCLA/UCLA Medical School. As an international educator, researcher, and author, she is dedicated to improving the trajectory of children’s learning, particularly in high-need, under-resourced communities. Dr. Kenney’s books include Brain Primers, 2020 (Kuczala & Kenney); 70 Play Activities for Better thinking, Self-Regulation, Learning and Behavior (Kenney & Comizio, 2016); the Social-Emotional Literacy program, Bloom Your Room™; Musical Thinking™, and Bloom: 50 Things To Say, Think and Do with Anxious, Angry and Over-the-Top Kids (Kenney & Young, 2015). Her most recent endeavor is Cognitivities™, an original collection of portable mats that combine music, art, and movement developed with Fit and Fun Playscapes. Launched in 2024, this is the first Roll-Out Activities® mat of its kind, helping children with cognitive skills, executive function, and self-regulation in a calming and engaging way. In development, FlowMoves™ cognitive-motor movement cards for high-need communities and families to support co-regulation and self-regulation.
Since 1985, Dr. Kenney has worked as an educator in community services with national organizations including the Neurological Health Foundation, Head Start, Understood.org, HandsOn Phoenix, SparkPE, the First Nations in Canada, and Points of Light (Generation On). Dr. Kenney values working with Title I Schools.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Lynne Kenney is the creator of CogniSuite & The Kinetic Classroom and the co-creator of 5n45. She is the co-owner of Move2Learn, LLC and has an employment relationship with Wellington-Alexander Center for the Treatment of Dyslexia and receives compensation as a consultant. Dr. Kenney receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Lynne Kenney is Play Math Ambassador.
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The planning committee and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. For speaker disclosures, please see speaker bios.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Kids, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
Counselors
This intermediate activity consists of 12.5 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
New York Counselors: CE credit is available. PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0033. This activity will qualify for 15.0 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
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This course is designed to qualify toward your professional development requirement. The program is 12.5 clock hours in length.
New York Educators: PESI, Inc. is an approved sponsor of CTLE with the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) Office of Teaching Initiatives. Provider #23567. This activity will qualify for 12.5 Approved Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) Hour(s), in the area of Pedagogy. Hours are based on full attendance. Board required certificates will be sent after the program.
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New York Psychologists: This live activity consists of 760 minutes of continuing education instruction and is related to the practice of psychology.
Psychologists/School Psychologists: PESI, Inc. is approved by the National Association of School Psychologists to offer professional development for school psychologists. PESI maintains responsibility for the program. Provider #1140. PESI is offering this activity for 12.5 hours of continuing education credit. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
Speech-Language Pathologists
This course is offered for 1.25 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).
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New York Social Workers: PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0008. This activity will qualify for 15.0 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
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