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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Our Executive Function Resources all on One Page!
We have a new Executive Function in the Classroom PreK-6th-grade resource page you can share with your schools. Find all our links in one place:). Our new 6th-12th-grade content is in development. Much of [...]
3 Simple Steps to Teach Math Facts with Musical Thinking
Here is a brief video overview of how to use Musical Thinking to incorporate teaching math multiplication (and division) facts with students. This example came from a conversation I had with an RTI educator [...]
Want Better Self-Regulation? Teach children the “felt-sense” of slowing down
Many children do not have awareness regarding how quickly they move. They rush when doing their written work, speed by classmates, knock things over and are often told, "slow down". Yet, they do not [...]
The Music Carpet Ride for Calming
Ready to mindfully find calm? Take A Music Carpet Ride. When helping children “Find Calm” at home or in the classroom, on occasion we will do meditation or mindfulness activities and the children might [...]
Classroom Physical Activity Podcast with Jorge Rodriguez
On the Global Phys Ed Podcast, Jorge Rodriguez and I talk about beat competency, classroom physical activity, and the research regarding building executive function skills and ready-to-learn brains. Here is the video. [...]
Start Your Attention Engines! with the My Attention Engine Sticker Game
Attention is a set of cognitive skills, one way to build attention is to coach it. When we teach children about the components of the attention cycle, they are better able to be mindfully [...]
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.
