![]() ![]() Stop and Think: The ability to control impulses and to “think before you act.”. ![]() Remember: The ability to keep track of, update, and use information over short periods of time.Focus: The ability to sustain attention and ignore distractions when needed.These basic skills are foundational for academic achievement, interpersonal skills, perseverance, and critical thinking. They’re important because… They help students to listen carefully, follow directions, use self-control, and think flexibly.Executive function (EF) skills are the mental processes required to focus, plan, and control behavioral responses in order to reach a goal.Playing Brain Games helps us to build our “brain powers,” or executive function (EF) skills.See the SEL Kernels pack for additional activities. Note: Click here to download and print a card version of this practice that can be added to the other Brain Games practices to make an easy-to-use hand-held collection. Making Classrooms and Schools Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered.Adapting Practices for Students with Special Needs.Practice controlling impulses and thinking before they act.A “Stop and Think Power” game from the Brain Games Pack:.During a morning meeting, a middle school advisory period, class transitions, after recess, or at the end of the day.During a designated SEL block of 10-15 minutes per day for Kernels practice or as time allows. ![]()
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