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Great news! Scap is offering a multilingual workshop for parents including English. Here is the announcement.

Austauschtreff für Eltern – Scap « Mein Kind kann nicht am Tisch sitzen bleiben, ist ständig in Bewegung » « Mein Kind kann sich in der Schule nicht konzentrieren » « Mein Kind hört mir nicht zu, ist oft abgelenkt »

In the local news today:
https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/2022481.html?fbclid=IwAR1gYQlPsva5YD2Shp7HMA5ZEy0WdCy7oWHh48QxcGKJL05XL5vjCiFr5uAIn

Education: More resources to be invested in special-needs children On Monday, Minister of Education, Children and Youth Claude Meisch presented a new report focusing on the education of special-needs children in Luxembourg.

https://www.additudemag.com/slideshows/executive-functioning-skills-motivation-for-teenager-adhd/

7 Executive Functioning Deficits That Deflate Motivation for Teens with ADHD Executive dysfunction causes problems with planning, organizing, prioritizing, and sticking to a goal, among other challenges. It's also a major reason behind motivation challenges in tweens and teens with ADHD. Learn about seven important executive function skills, their relationship to motivation,...

Interesting research results.

Using Fingers to Count in Math Class Is Not 'Babyish'

Are You Overpraising Your Child?

Are You Overpraising Your Child? All those “Good jobs!” might be undermining kids’ independence and self-confidence.

Here is a helpful article on motivation and procrastination for upper secondary. https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-foster-self-motivation-high-school?fbclid=IwAR2YhQeJ6RFjMv3RulyNwQNdOIoJxVHu48CZtxOSXsSiMn5HdokwZpC9ByA

How to Foster Self-Motivation in High School Students benefit from understanding what causes procrastination—and from specific tactics that help them manage their study time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/opinion/coronavirus-school-closures.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Opinion | What if Some Kids Are Better Off at Home? For parents like me, the pandemic has come with a revelation: For our children, school was torture.

This is why we always start in book 1. They must believe first that they can.

https://delano.lu/d/detail/news/growing-diversity-brings-english-clervaux-schools/209785

Growing diversity brings English to Clervaux schools - Delano - Luxembourg in English A Clervaux primary and secondary school are to offer English language streams to cater to the growing number of international residents being outpriced in the south and centre of the country.

3 Defining Features of ADHD That Everyone Overlooks The textbook symptoms of ADD — inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity — fail to reflect several of its most powerful characteristics; the ones that shape your perceptions, emotions, and motivation.