Designing Classrooms that Build Executive Function, Independence, and Belonging

Saturday, October 3, 2026

Registration will open soon

Registration Deadline: Monday, September 21, 2026

Overview

Join educators, clinicians, and families from across Southeast Asia for an engaging, hands‑on workshop. Whether you’re a teacher, administrator, therapist, or psychologist, you’ll dive into an immersive, practical, classroom‑ and home‑ready learning experience rooted in the award‑winning 360 Thinking Executive Function Method. 

Attendees

Educators K – 12, school administrators, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, psychologists, and families. 

Cost

HK$3,500 

Breakfast and Lunch are included.

Session Outcomes

In this workshop, participants will leave with: 

• A clear, practical understanding of the 360 Thinking Executive Function Model and how to use it to teach executive function skills—not just expect them from students. 
• Concrete, ready-to-use strategies for supporting students who appear capable but struggle with follow-through, organization, time management, and task initiation. 
• Practical tools and instructional approaches for building students’ time awareness, task planning, self-regulation, and cognitive flexibility across developmental levels. 
• A simple, adaptable framework—Get Ready · Do · Done—that turns everyday tasks, assignments, and routines into teachable executive function moments. 
• Targeted strategies for supporting students with ADHD, learning differences, and executive dysfunction in both academic and home contexts. 
• Parent-friendly tools and language that reduce prompt-dependence and intentionally build student independence beyond the classroom.  
• Tools and frameworks for parents to reduce prompt-dependence and build independence at home.

This is a learn‑it‑today, use‑it‑tomorrow workshop. Participants will leave with dozens of practical, immediately applicable strategies—and a shared, actionable language for understanding, teaching, and supporting executive function across home and school. 

Speaker

Sarah Ward, M.S., CCC/SLP is an internationally recognized leader in executive function with more than 30 years of experience supporting individuals with executive dysfunction. Alongside her co-director, Kristen Jacobsen, she developed the 360 Thinking Executive Function Program, an award‑winning framework honored by CHADD for innovative and promising practices. Their most recent work, the Time Tracker Program, is a highly acclaimed three‑volume series that helps students transition from adult‑managed to self‑regulated time management. Sarah has delivered professional learning to over 2,000 public and private schools and organizations worldwide and, in recognition of their global impact, she and Kristen were named among the Top 10 Professional Development Providers of 2023 by Education Technology Insights Magazine. 

Schedule

Registration will open soon

Registration Deadline: Monday, September 21, 2026

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