Please join the Assets Center for Learning – Maui for a Very Special Workshop
Promoting Executive Function – Helping Your Child Succeed
Presented by Ryan Masa, Assets School K-8 Principal
When: Monday, August 1, 2016, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Where: Seabury Hall (location to be announced)
Cost: $150
Registration deadline: Today – July 15
Email Paul Singer at [email protected]
If you live or work with a child who struggles to set goals, plan, organize, prioritize, manipulate information in his mind, shift his thinking or self-monitor, you know that school can be a challenge for this student. Collectively, these cognitive processes are referred to as executive functions, and they are important for success in school and life. In this workshop, we will explore how to understand and explain executive functions in a clear way; why executive functions are so important; how we can begin to identify children who are struggling with executive functioning; and we’ll develop concrete strategies for supporting children with weak executive functioning. We will also provide resources that can be referenced at a later time.
Ryan Masa is the K-8 Principal at Assets School and also works as an adjunct professor at Chaminade University. He holds an Ed.M. from Harvard University’s Mind, Brain, and Education program. His previous work experience includes the Hawai‘i Association of Independent Schools, the Hawaiian Educational Council, and Lawrence School in northeast Ohio – an independent, K-12 school for students with learning differences and attention deficits. Ryan currently serves as a founding board member of the Mālama Honua public charter school, and previously served as the president for the Hawai‘i Branch of the International Dyslexia Association and as the chair of the 2015 International Dyslexia Association annual conference in Grapevine, Texas.
The Assets Center for Learning is a program of Assets School, which was established in 1955 to serve the needs of students who learn differently. It functions as a one-stop center providing access to psychologists, educational therapists and training lecturers to help students with learning differences as well as their families and teachers who interact with them. We also offer financial assistance to help children from low- income families.
