schedule

Neuroscience and Executive Skills: Strategies for Exercutive Functions, Memory and Learning
July 25-29, 2016, Santa Barbara, CA

Monday, July 25

Promoting the Sensory Intake for Memory

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Registration

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Working lunch and introductions

1:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Description of schedule and participant activities for program

1:15 PM - 2:20 PM

Why know Neuroscience?

Exposing "neuro-myths"        

Increasing demands for strong executive functions

2:20 PM - 2:30 PM

Coffee break

2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Prefrontal cortex development

Attention control and increasing top-down executive function control of attention

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Best learning experience

Q&A and small group application collaboration

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Networking reception

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Dinner

Tuesday, July 26

The Emotional Conditions that Promote Memory Construction

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Small group discussion of assigned readings

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Emotional requirements for information processing

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM

Coffee break

10:25 AM - 11:45 AM

Executive functions for top-down emotional self-control, learning self-mastery and growth mindset

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Q&A and application collaboration

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch

Wednesday, July 27

Memory Construction

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Small group discussion of assigned readings

8:45 AM - 9:30 AM

Encoding short term memory

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Executive function input for top-down working memory

Neuroplasticity: Potential and practices part 1

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM

Coffee break

10:25 AM - 12:00 PM

Neuroplasticity: Potential and practices part 2

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Q&A and application collaboration

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch

Thursday, July 28

Teaching for Understanding: Now and Future

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Small group discussion of assigned readings

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Mental manipulation for durable long-term memory

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM

Coffee break

10:25 AM - 11:45 AM

Building executive functions across the curriculum - Part 1

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Q&A and small group topic specific collaboration

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch

Friday, July 29

Strengthening Developing Executive Functions

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Small group discussion of assigned readings

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Building executive functions across the curriculum - Part 2

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM

Coffee break / Evaluation forms

10:25 AM - 11:45 AM

Cognitive flexibility and mistakes

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Future: In Neuroscience and in your goals

Please note: Schedule is preliminary and subject to change