Executive Function Skills: Helping Students Find Meaning from Their Experiences
Laura Thomas, Core Faculty, Antioch University
Oct 10, 2025
One thing classroom teachers know: things happen. Sometimes we plan them, sometimes we don’t, but there’s always a learning opportunity to be had. In this workshop, we explored tools and processes for helping students make
meaning from the experiences we have together (the planned and unplanned) so that we can build community and practice academic and processing skills. Participants
deepened their understanding of the experiential cycle as a tool for reflection and applied the experiential cycle to a classroom occurrence in order to surface the academic and/or process skills embedded in the experience. We explored tools and strategies for classroom reflection and for teaching and assessing these process skills.
