Executive Function

This website from partner, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities has a very well stocked section on Executive Function.  “Materials that describe what executive function skills are, provides examples of programs that build executive function skills or use executive function…

Building Better Programs, from partner Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.  Includes recorded webinar and slides. Executive Function Skills: What They Are and Why They Matter

Building Better Programs, from partner Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.  Includes recorded webinar and slides. Using an Executive Function-Informed Goal Achievement Framework to Redesign Employment and Related Human Service Programs

The term ‘non-cognitive skills’ refers to a set of attitudes, behaviours, and strategies that are thought to underpin success in school and at work, such as motivation, perseverance, and self-control.  Despite growing interest in this topic, the causal relationship between non-cognitive skills…

Teacher Expectations Matter paper, August 2016 “We provide novel, arguably causal evidence that teacher expectations affect students’ educational attainment. On average, teachers are overly optimistic about students’ ability to complete a four-year college degree. However, the degree of over-optimism of…

Article in  2016 American Economic Review, 106(5):435-40, Shilbach et al. https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/sendhil/files/psychological_lives_of_the_poor.pdf

  Using Brain Science to Create New Pathways out of Poverty

World Bank Open Learning Campus video segment offers practical guidance for how to develop brain science-informed livelihood programming to transform participant outcomes and achievements. https://olc.worldbank.org/content/restoring-livelihoods-psychosocial-support-4#video14085

Short research paper in Stanford Social Innovation Review by Elisabeth Babcock.  2014 http://s3.amazonaws.com/empath-website/pdf/Research-RethinkingPoverty-0914.pdf

This 2014 paper from partner, EMPath (formerly Crittinton Women’s Union) covers many of the key concepts behind CalWORKS 2.0. “Moving out of poverty is no longer a short process of following a simple roadmap to a good job. It has…