Middle School — Learning Stage Pages

Goal Setting for Students: SMART Goals and Clear Objectives

Imagine a game of soccer (or football) where you need to score goals to win, but there are no goal posts. You’re in a very competitive and high…

Task Initiation for Students: Starting Schoolwork and Managing Procrastination

Task initiation is a cognitive ability that allows us to start a task without procrastinating, delaying for no reason, or relying on external motivators. In academics, task initiation…

Focus and Attention Skills for Students: Managing Distractions

Focus and attention are two essential classroom and life skills that allow people to stay engaged on a task, resist distractions, and work efficiently. These two skills allow…

Planning Skills for Students: Breaking Goals Into Manageable Steps

Planning is an essential skill for success that involves making large goals smaller. It involves giving these smaller tasks importance and doing them in the most meaningful order…

Organization Skills for Students: Materials, Notes and Homework

Organization skills help students keep track of materials, information, and assignments so that they spend more time learning and not on getting ready to learn. Highly organized people…

Time Management Skills for Students: Priorities, Breaks and Weekly Planning

Time management is the art of choosing how to spend your energy so that you can reach your goals without feeling like you are not making progress. It…

Executive Function Skills for Students: Planning, Focus and Organization

To learn successfully takes a combination of skills and effort that must be cultivated into regular habits and rhythms. The core learning requires executive-function skills (what we also…