Dr. Lynne Kenney is the nation’s leading pediatric psychologist in the development of cognitive-physical activity programs for students K-6. Dr. Kenney develops curriculum, programming, and activities to improve children’s cognition through coordinative cognitive-motor movement, executive function skill-building strategies, and social-emotional learning.
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Bloom Your Room Posters for Classrooms PreK-3rd Grade
It's been a busy year. We have been building our new executive function webinars, social-emotional learning programs, bookmarks, stickers, and cognitive movement programs. Our Bloom Your Room social-emotional learning 11"x17" posters just arrived and are [...]
5 Steps To Teaching Children Attention Skills
Research shows that we can teach children HOW to attend better. Many children have difficulty with attention. But it's not an all or nothing proposition. Our attention systems are on a continuum from hyper-alert/over-focused [...]
How Important is Learning To Move To A Beat?
In 2011, while I was helping 3rd and 4th graders learn their multiplication facts by bouncing playground balls and stepping on polyspots, I observed that several students with ADHD and dyslexia had significant difficulty [...]
Why Does My 2-Year-Old Have So Many Tantrums When She Can’t Get What She Wants?
Real Parent Q: Why does my 2-year-old have so many tantrums and how can I help? Tantrums arise for a handful of reasons, anxiety, sensory overstimulation, hunger, fatigue and more. In this video, we specifically [...]
Creating Your Family Mission Statement: Why It Matters (and how to do it)
Today, I had the pleasure of speaking with the amazing parents and teachers in the Big Life Journal - Raising Kids with a Growth Mindset Facebook group. Their dedication to raising their children in a [...]
10 Activities To Improve Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom – Video
10 Activities To Improve Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom Children with healthy social-emotional skills learn, behave and achieve better. Research shows teacher retention, job satisfaction, and student behavior are better when students are [...]
Introducing…The Kinetic Classroom!
Dr. Lynne Kenney integrates neuroscience + kinesiology + education to improve children’s learning with cognitive and physical activities designed to enhance children’s attention, memory, self-regulation, learning, and behavior.
Bringing Cognition + Movement to Classrooms and Communities Worldwide.
