One hall mark of ADHD is trouble with executive function. ADHD kids aren’t the best planners, organizers, or self-regulators. This can get very frustrating very quickly. This training presentation presents ten, simple steps can be followed to boost all seven executive functions and also help your child/student gain more independence. This presentation might be used in a professional learning community for growth in the area of ADHD and executive function, a school-wide focused faculty meeting, or even a district-wide professional development session with general education as well as special services teachers. Executive function has received much attention and research and is worth the investigation in that many, many students have difficulty with this and many times adults think it is instinctive! This might also be a training session implemented with parents who will benefit from the ten simple steps as well!

This presentation is comprised of seventeen slides which are all anecdotes of all too familiar happenings with children who exhibit ADD/ADHD characteristics. Each child, as we all well know, is different and unique! Use these slides at the conclusion of an all day training as closure or use them at a Parent University or parent workshop. All teachers and parents can relate to the content for sure! The content is meant to highlight the funny side of living with an ADHD child!

This is an awesome Powerpoint training for general education teachers, special needs educators, administrators, and all other educators alike. It consists of one hundred slides that progress from definitions, descriptions, myths, how it is diagnosed, causes, deficits and gifts, executive functions, medications, strategies and interventions, and places to seek more help and resources. This is an awesome all-day training that has the opportunity to be very interactive with many visuals and graphics. It is also a great resource for a Parent University setting. As well, it can be used in a smaller faculty group such as a Professional Learning Community. Finally, paraprofessionals will also benefit greatly from this knowledge base!

In this packet of mini-posters, you will find a set of three posters that serve as reference tools for students in aiding in trying to determine the author’s purpose of a specific text! These posters are a perfect fit for a bulletin board and/or right above your whiteboard! You can’t go wrong in displaying these mini-posters in that throughout the year, students are asked to identify and justify the author’s point of view!

This resource is a total of fifty-one slides to use as a presentation for older teenagers, young adults, college students, older adults, parents, etc. The material discussed is that of thirteen strategies that adults can adopt and implement for success in life.

In this packet, you will find six mini-posters perfect for a bulletin board or above your whiteboard. These posters can be used to guide the thinking process as students are involved with a reading selection– fiction as well as nonfiction. Students should always think about what they read before they read, as they read, and after they have finished reading the selection, and these posters help them do just that! Each poster gives a key word to consider. These words include: connect, picture, summarize, predict, question, and evaluate! This is a great reference tool for students that you don’t want to miss!

In this packet/presentation, there are twenty-five discipline strategies to consider as a parent and/or a teacher when working with an ADHD child/student. These strategies are only a sampling of what is additionally available from ADDitude’s Experts a journal published monthly. Use this power-point for a “Parent University” training session for parents of children with ADHD. As well, these slides can be used in a professional development training session, focused faculty meeting, or professional learning community.

This is an awesome 66 slide training resource for ALL educators! The training ranges from a definition of differentiation, cartoons of differentiation for icebreakers, aspects of instruction that can be differentiated to strategies of differentiating, examples of menus, choice boards, menus, planners, and tic-tac-toe choice boards! These slides can be utilized at a focused faculty meeting, professional development session, and/or a PLC.

This resource is a set of training slides that serves to educate young teens, young adults, and adults on how to finish what you start. This presentation contains eleven strategies to help finish tasks! You can’t go wrong in utilizing this presentation with middle schoolers, high schoolers, young adults in college, and parents in a “Parent University” setting!

With the recent release of the new Batman versus Superman movie, what better time to take a stand as to who really is the best superhero. As a way to reinforce argumentative/persuasive writing, utilize this resource to engage your students! This resource contains the following: (1) graphic organizer to frame one's thinking for forming an opinion or an argument (2) sample of five pages of a plain writing template for drafting and editing (3) sample of five pages of those who prefer "Batman" writing paper for drafting and editing (4) sample of five pages of those who prefer "Superman" writing paper for drafting and editing (5) 4-5 research articles on Batman (6) 4-5 research articles on Superman Allow students to conduct their research and form his/her opinion based on evidence from their research. Students will love this as you are teaching so many important standards!

This is a set of ten mini-posters each referencing a literary element. The set includes: plot, setting, protagonist, antagonist, narrator, narrative method, dialogue, conflict, mood, and theme. These are great mini-posters for referencing these important parts of a story. They can be used as a bulletin board all year long to serve as an easy reference or placed above the white board for easy reference as well.

In this packet, you will find a colorful set of mini-posters to illustrate twenty popular fruits. As young children are learning each fruit, use these mini-posters to illustrate to students what the fruit looks like. This is a great set of mini-posters to post in the classroom above the whiteboard!

In this packet, you will find approximately twenty posters each illustrating a different vegetable. These posters are perfect for posting above the whiteboard while teaching a science and/or health unit on vegetables! Each mini-poster is very colorful and is labeled.

In this packet, you will find a set of four posters each describing mean, median, mode, and range. These mini-posters can serve as a reference tool in helping students calculate mean, median, mode, and range, as well as determine which best represents a given number set. Examples of each term are given as well!

In this packet, you will find approximately thirty-three pages of photo props. The props include the following: (1) Liberty Bell; (2) God Bless America statement; (3) Uncle Sam Top hat: (4) Betsy Ross; (5) bouquets of fireworks; (6) Rockets; (7) the American Flag; (8) the Statue of Liberty; (9) Uncle Sam; (10) a July 4th Emogi; (11) an American cupcake, and many more! There is at least eight of each photo prop so you shouldn’t lack for everyone having a great choice as to what he/she might want to use in making his or her perfect photo. Are you planning a summer get together in the back yard? Are you working with a summer enrichment program and want to create a photo booth for your kiddos? Are you looking for a fun activity to do with your own kiddos? If any of these scenarios apply, look no more… you have found the perfect activity. Everyone loves to make selfies and other pics with family and friends to cherish forever! If you have boas or other props to put with these, the more the merrier. All you need to do is to print these on heavy cardstock, cut them out, and glue to a dowel or even a skewer in some instances. For young children, please be sure to use dowels in that skewers sometimes have sharp ends! Happy Independence Day!

This packet is awesome to say the least! You will find twelve posters with amazing backgrounds to help illustrate twelve different genres of literature. These genres include: poetry, fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, realistic fiction, mystery, biography, autobiography, drama, fanciful tales, and humor. These mini-posters are perfect for a bulletin board or to be placed above your whiteboard as a reference tool all year long as students embark on each genre throughout their studies. The absolutely amazing, beautiful illustrations are sure to capture your students attention!

Use this fall pennant to accomplish multiple tasks within your classroom during this wonderful fall season. This packet contains a fall student centered pennant for each of your students to complete to share in your classroom! The pennant is made in five different fall colors and ask the students to write three favorite things that he/she enjoys doing during the fall of the year. Also, students are asked to write the names of three sports which are played during the fall! Finally, students are to write a goal they hope to accomplish during the fall! You will love this short writing task as a springboard for a writer's notebook, a tool for brainstorming to create a poem for fall, or simply to use as a pennant hanging in your classroom for this wonderful time of the year!

Calling all administrators and education majors... This is a four page needs assessment survey which is a great tool for administrators to use on his/her campus to grasp the heartbeat of the culture, achievement, and levels of professional development needed! It is designed in a likert scale format with "4" being the highest score! Sections include: (1) High expectations for student achievement (2) Focusing on teaching and learning (3) Parental and community involvement in the educational program (4) Continuous assessment of students, staff, and programs to evaluate program effectiveness (5) Safe and orderly environment (6) Staff effectiveness and professional development (7) Capable leadership As well, education majors in undergraduate school as well as masters and specialist level candidates in education, this is a great tool for one of your classes which may require such an assignment!

Your students are sure to love this resource as they complete a study on the life of Abraham Lincoln. Students are asked to take Abraham Lincoln's name and construct an acrostic with each letter of his name. As well, at the bottom of the printable, students are to create a Haiku and are reminded of the pattern for this type of poetry! Students will delight in decorating their "top hats" and publishing their acrostics and haiku's for President's Day!

We are all so completely busy! And... I am not sure if you have the same type of problems as myself; however, I am a procrastinator! In saying this, this resource is a printable that includes a strategy for managing your time. In this resource, the "Einstein Urgent Important Principle" is utilized and will prove to be a huge asset! Try it! Specifically, it allows you to prioritize your "to-do" list into four different categories which include: (1) Important and Urgent-- do it now; (2) Important, But Not Urgent-- Plan It; (3) Not Important, But Urgent -- Delegate it; and then (4) Not Important and Not Urgent -- Dump It! Try this printable-- hope you enjoy!