Learning Communities, Mind in the Making, Executive function (EF) skills are essential to America’s present and future

Ellen Galinksy and a panel,  June 12, 2012, PDI, Indy

“Students and job applicants don’t have the ex functioning skills to really be able to function in today’s workplace.”  - Cecilia Rouse, Princeton

ROUSE is calling for an overhaul of our ed system

Air traffic control system = exec functioning system

-Jack Shonkoff

self regulation and ex funct skills are more important at the time of school entry than letters and numbers

report #11

Harvard

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news-impact/tag/center-on-the-developing-child/

Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University (2011). Building the Brain’s “Air Traffic Control” System: How Early Experiences Shape the Development of Executive Function: Working Paper No. 11. Retrieved from www.developingchild.harvard.edu

http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/reports_and_working_papers/working_papers/wp11/

fill in the bubble mindset will be a detriment to our culture.

What are the EX FUNCTIONS?

Located in the prefrontal cortex

Focus – being able to pay attention

Working memory – being able to keep info in mind in order to use it

Cognitive flexibility - being able to adjust to shifting needs and demands, and

Inhibitory control – being able to resist the temptation to go on automatic and do what we need to do to achieve our goals

EF skills = Reflecting analyzing planning and evaluation

NOTE TO SELF: reread Mind in the Making

She played a video with tons of pop up shapes, we were instructed to count the blue stars.

Kind of like this:

http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html

and no one saw the cat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqc8gKuXs3s

Brazelton neonatal test

Watch how the baby self-regulates

megan mcclelland

http://health.oregonstate.edu/people/mcclelland-megan

playing games with children increase EF skills

marshmallow test

Dr. Mischel

Google it on youtube to watch

Mischel is no longer depriving children of marshmallos but studying the behaviors they used while waiting for the marshmallows.

Panel member from ABQ saying that Mind in the Making was the vehicle to bring more DAP practice to her public school