Organized Minds

We work with students with executive function challenges and other learning disabilities everyday. When we help them to better understand their assignments, we often see the same challenges again and again. Assignments that assess both writing and content equally can make it difficult for neurodivergent students to be successful. We created this resource to help guide educators in creating assignments that still meet all their curriculum needs, but also supports the success of neurodivergent l

What are your assignments assuming? We work with students with executive function challenges and other learning disabilities everyday. When we help them to better understand their assignments, we often see the same challenges again and again.There are lots of skills and competencies they are assumed to have mastered and for many of our students they haven't yet. We created this checklist for educators to use to identify which of these skills and competencies their assignment is assuming students

Executive Functioning challenges are a spectrum of differing needs. If you have learners with EF challenges in your classroom you will understand that it can be difficult to create one assignment that is accessible for multiple types of learners. This resource can help to provide a writing prompt for these multiple types of learners without providing them with an entirely new assignment. This free resource includes 10 pairs of prompts you can use together or separate. For each pair, you will r