Our Pre-Conference Workshops will run concurrently on February 26, 2025, from 9:30am to 12:30pm, when we will break for lunch. We will then resume at 1:30pm and conclude at 4:30pm. The cost of the Pre-Conference is $99 and includes lunch.

You will need to choose one of the two options below to attend.

Self-regulation, the observable everyday outcome of executive function, plays a guiding role throughout our lives, beginning in infancy and following a protracted developmental course. Numerous environmental, economic, and health risk and resilience factors can alter our ability to initiate, sustain, and inhibit thinking, emotions, and behavior. They may interfere with our ability to adapt to change, to develop, select, and hold goals in working memory, and to plan, organize,
and monitor progress toward our goals.

Problems with self-regulation alter the trajectory of  individuals’ educational, social, vocational, financial, and health with more negative outcomes. Enhancing self-regulation beginning in early childhood serves to increase the likelihood of more
positive functioning both proximally and in the long term. The goal of this full day workshop is to increase knowledge about students’ self-regulation development, risk and resilience factors, methods of assessment, and approaches to improving executive functioning/self-regulation in the everyday world.

In this presentation, we will review the most widely accepted model of self- regulation, or executive function, in the context of other abilities, identify risk and resilience factors that may impact development of self-regulation and long-term outcomes, discuss approaches to assessment in detail, identify successful approaches to enhancing students’ self-
regulation with a goal of improving their everyday lives now and into the future, and review cases in common conditions that demonstrate conceptualization, assessment, and intervention recommendations

As a result of attending this training, participants will be able to:

• Describe the most widely used model of everyday executive function/self-regulation
• Identify major risk factors for problems with executive functions
• Describe long and short term outcomes of reduced executive function
• Explain pros and cons of performance and rating scale measures of executive function
• Identify specific intervention programs or methods with demonstrated efficacy

The session will also cover practical interventions and strategies to help students strengthen their executive functions, ultimately boosting their academic proficiency. Whether you are a teacher, school psychologist, or educational specialist, this workshop will equip you with the tools to better support students in overcoming executive function difficulties and achieving their full academic potential.

• Explain the role of executive functions in reading, writing, and doing math
• Describe how executive function difficulties impact reading, writing, and math production
• Apply assessment techniques to determine how executive function difficulties impact reading, writing, and math proficiency
• Apply instructional techniques that address reading, writing, and math problems releated to executive function difficulties

George McCloskey, Ph.D., is a professor and Director of School Psychology Research in the School of Professional and Applied Psychology of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and holds Diplomate status with the American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology. Dr. McCloskey has accumulated 45 years of experience in test development, teaching, research, and assessment and intervention work with children, adolescents, and adults. He has authored two books on executive functions, and the McCloskey Executive Functions Scales, and with his wife, Laurie McCloskey, is co-author of the SILAS/McCloskey Executive Functions Curriculum and the children’s book The Day Frankie Left His Frontal Lobes at Home.