From Play to Planning: Strategies to Shape the Development of Executive Function Skills in Young Learners

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How early can we begin building executive function skills? The early education field is increasingly recognizing the importance of developing young children's executive function (EF) skills to support working memory, self-control, goal-directed behavior, and academic success.

Our 360 Thinking Executive Function Method is now available to guide the development of EF skills in early childhood. Adapted for use in preschool and early elementary settings, this approach targets working memory, self-regulation, and future-directed thinking to help children become more focused, resilient, and capable learners. By fostering these foundational skills early, children become better equipped to concentrate, retain and manipulate information, filter distractions, and shift perspectives flexibly to meet school demands.

Our "STOP and PLAY" program provides strategies that can be embedded into dramatic play, therapy, and classroom routines to enhance situational awareness, mental imagery, working memory, future thinking, time management, task visualization, self-regulation,…