When a student melts down mid-lesson: what to do first
A student goes from fine to flooded in under a minute. The room is watching. What you do next either shortens this…
Executive function, made doable
Which one showed up today?
Every one of these is a real executive-function mechanism, not a character flaw. Find the one that matches your day and start there.
Driftclock
“Five more minutes” was forty minutes ago.
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Anchorling
You know the first step. You cannot start it.
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Scatterpod
Started the laundry, reorganised the whole shelf.
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Staticpuff
The light, the noise, the label in your shirt.
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Spiralkin
One short reply and your brain writes a whole story.
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Squallmite
Fine, flooded, fine again — all before lunch.
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Foglet
The word is right there. It will not come.
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Tunnelbug
Meant to do one thing. Four hours vanished.
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For your own brain, or for the ones you teach
same skills, different shelf
For you
Undated paperbacks for a brain that misses deadlines it genuinely cared about. No dated pages to fall behind on, and a reset built in so one missed day doesn't end it.
- ADHD Planner for Adults Undated daily layouts for time blindness and executive dysfunction.
- The No-Guilt ADHD Habit Tracker Habit amnesty resets, three valid day types, a dopamine reward menu.
- Executive Function Workbook for Teens Time management, task initiation and organisation, ages 12–17.
- The ADHD + Perimenopause Tracker Daily symptom journal with doctor-ready summary pages.
For your classroom
Print-and-go worksheets for grades 3–8, written to the skill rather than the behaviour. Start with the free one and see if it fits your room.
- Calm-Down & Reset Mini Toolkit Free Coping-strategy cards and a check-in tracker, grades 3–8.
- Self-Regulation Check-In & Coping Skills $6.50 The Emotion Weather check-in, grades 3–5.
- Task Initiation & Focus Toolkit $5.50 Getting-started strategies and focus trackers, grades 4–6.
- Middle School Executive Function Workbook $7.99 Planning, organisation and self-monitoring, grades 6–8.
Free to start
The Calm-Down & Reset Mini Toolkit
Coping-strategy cards and a check-in tracker for grades 3–8. Free, printable, and the fastest way to see whether this approach fits your room.
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Reading
How the mechanisms actually work
Task initiation: why you cannot start, even when you want to
You know what the task is. You know how to do it. You have the time, the materials, and every intention of…
Time blindness: why five more minutes is never five minutes
You said five more minutes. It has been forty. You are not lying to anyone, and you are not disorganised — you…