Executive Functions and Reading, Writing and Math

July 21-25, 2025

Santa Barbara, CA

The Program Schedule CE Credits Travel Registration

Cost: $2,095 per person through May 23, 2025 and $2,195 per person after May 23, 2025 Save $100 per person when registering a group of 3 or more.

Join Us This Summer in Santa Barbara for a Hands-on Workshop

From July 21 - 25, 2025, Learning & the Brain is offering a Summer Institute on the oceanside campus of UCSB.

This Institute will describe executive functions and discuss their involvement in learning and classroom production. Emphasis will be placed on how executive functions are involved in reading, writing, and math skill acquisition and the productive application of these skills. The role of motivation in academic skill development also will be addressed. Reading, writing, and math difficulties related to executive function deficits will be examined in detail. You will learn interventions for helping students improve their use of executive functions. Particular emphasis will be placed on intervention techniques to help struggling students overcome executive function difficulties and improve academic proficiency.

This institute is hands-on and is limited to 45 participants.

At This Institute, You Will

Explain the role of executive functions in reading, writing, and doing math

Describe how executive function difficulties can impact reading, writing, and math production

Apply assessment techniques to determine the extent to which executive function difficulties are impacting reading, writing, and math proficiency

Learn to implement instructional techniques that address reading, writing, and math problems related to executive function difficulties

The Summer Institute Is for

All Teachers, Special Educators, School Administrators

School Psychologists, Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists

Learning Specialists, Counselors, Academic Support Staff

Other Professionals who work with children and adolescents in grades PreK-12

Professional Development Credit

Earn up to 20 hours toward professional development credit for various professionals. For details on credit offered, visit our CE credit page or call our office at 857-444-1500 ext. 1. Note: credits are not provided by the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Accommodations and Meals

Interaction between faculty and participants outside the classroom is an integral part of the Institute. To foster this total immersion learning environment, participants are housed in undergraduate dormitory accommodations on the UC Santa Barbara campus. The dormitory rooms are located in the recently opened Sierra Madre complex located on the Goleta side of the UC Santa Barbara campus. Participants are assigned to their own bedroom in a shared two-bedroom apartment with each participant having their own bathroom. Linens are provided. All facilities are ADA compliant. The Institute provides four nights lodging with an arrival date of July 21 and a departure date of July 25. If you are interested in making your own accommodations off-campus or would like to arrange an early arrival on campus, please call us at 857-444-1500 x1. Please check the online schedule for information on the meals provided. Note: The UCSB campus is a smoke-free campus.

George McCloskey, PhD

George McCloskey, PhD, is a professor and Director of School Psychology Research in the School of Applied and Professional Psychology of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and holds Diplomate status with the American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology. Dr. McCloskey has amassed 40 years of experience in test development, teaching, research, and assessment and intervention work. The workshop's content is based on the past 25 years of his research and experience working specifically with children, adolescents, and adults exhibiting executive function difficulties. He frequently presents at international, national, and state conferences on cognitive and neuropsychological assessment and intervention topics. He consults with many school districts and private schools nationwide on improving students' executive functions.

Dr. McCloskey is the lead author of Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties and Essentials of Executive Functions Assessment andco-author with his wife, Laurie McCloskey, of the children's book titled The Day Frankie Left His Frontal Lobes at Home. He also is the author of the McCloskey Executive Functions Scales (MEFS) Teacher and Parent Forms that have been standardized and published with Schoolhouse Educational Services.