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AGC National Presenters’ Series
Good Readers are Good Thinkers! Teaching Executive Skills to Support Reading Comprehension with Dr.Kelly B. Cartwright





The Access to the General Curriculum (AGC) National Presenters’ Series offers participants a unique opportunity to hear some of the leading national experts in education for diverse learners.  Participants will receive information on innovative strategies to support accessibility and proficiency for all learners inclusive of students with disabilities. The trainings support the Texas Teacher Standards and the Domains within the Texas Teacher Evaluation Support System (TTESS).  Join us for this unique and exciting opportunity.




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Many times, our students seem to have all of the necessary skills they need to be good readers (things like phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension strategies, to name a few), but somehow they still struggle with putting all of these things together in order to comprehend texts. In this session, we will dig a bit deeper than the familiar skills listed above to explore essential thinking skills, called executive skills, that support successful reading comprehension. Executive skills are self-regulatory skills that help students manage their thoughts, emotions, and actions, and include things like working memory, inhibitory control (or self-control), and mental flexibility. These skills are often invisible to teachers and students. However, when students have weak executive skills, the results are often painfully obvious in the classroom. In fact, students who struggle with reading comprehension, despite appropriate word reading skills, show deficits in executive skills that can persist into adulthood! The good news for classroom teachers is that executive skills can be taught, resulting in improvements in these and in reading comprehension. In this session, participants will learn: • Basic information about executive skills, • Specific ways that executive skills support reading comprehension • Research-tested strategies for assessing and strengthening students’ executive skills • Insights and take-home strategies for helping students achieve a more meaning-focused approach to print.

T-TESS/T-PESS:
Dimension 1.3: Knowledge of Students, Dimension 2.1: Achieving Expectations, Dimension 2.3: Communication, Dimension 2.4: Differentiation, Dimension 2.5: Monitor and Adjust, Dimension 3.1: Classroom Environment, Routines and Procedures, Dimension 3.3: Classroom Culture, Dimension 4.1: Professional Demeanor and Ethics, Dimension 4.2: Goal Setting, Dimension 4.3: Professional Development; Standard 1 - Instructional Leadership, Standard 4 - School Culture

Registration for this session has ended
Session ID:
1336248
Credits Available:
(6) Clock Hours
(6) CPE
Contact Person:
Becky Maya
Registration Fee:
$35.00
Instructor(s):
Kelly B. Cartwright
Audience:
Curriculum Specialist, Inclusion Specialists, Personnel Working with Assistive Technology, Special Education Teachers, Teachers, All Levels
Date Time Location
2/2/2018 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM Region 4 ESC McKinney Conference Center - MCC 101
7200 Northwest 100 Drive, Houston, 77092
Date:
2/2/2018
Time:
8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Location:
Region 4 ESC McKinney Conference Center - MCC 101
7200 Northwest 100 Drive, Houston, 77092


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