09/26/2026
Join us for an upcoming Parent Info Night: Growing Executive Function Through Talent Development, with Bridges Academy, on Wednesday, October 7, 6:00pm - 7:30pm (PDT). This event is free, and you can register via the link in our bio!
Executive functioning skills are often discussed in terms of what students struggle to do, but what happens when we begin with what they are motivated to do? In this session, Dr. Stacey Hilborn will explore how strength-based talent development experiences can create meaningful, authentic opportunities for students to practice skills such as planning, organization, task initiation, time management, flexibility, persistence, collaboration, and self-regulation. Drawing on enrichment and talent development programming for twice-exceptional learners, Stacey will share how student choice, real-world projects, mentorship, and opportunities to develop expertise can increase engagement and give students a genuine reason to use and strengthen their executive functioning skills.
Dylan McKenzie, Bridges Academy Online High School Director, will then bring these ideas to life through specific student case studies, highlighting examples of executive functioning growth that emerged through interest-driven and talent-centered learning. Together, the session will invite participants to think differently about executive functioning development, not simply as a set of skills to remediate in isolation, but as capacities that can grow when students are appropriately challenged and engaged in work that feels purposeful to them.
