Executive Function Is the Brain’s Air Traffic Control: Practical Strategies for the New School Year
As educators prepare for a new school year, they are thinking about more than curriculum and classroom setup. Students also need skills to remember directions, shift between tasks, manage distractions, organize their thinking, and work independently. Those skills were at the center of ADAC’s latest Summer Learning Series webinar, Executive Function Skills Every Teacher Needs […]
Stronger Together: Catholic School Leaders Learn Across Diocesan Lines
What happens when more than 140 Catholic school leaders from five neighboring (arch)dioceses come together to share ideas, challenges, and experiences? Ideas travel. Relationships form. And leaders return to their schools with new perspectives and practical strategies to share with their communities. That spirit of collaboration was at the heart of the 2nd Annual Regional […]
Designing for Every Learner: ADAC’s Summer Learning Series Explores UDL
What if reaching more learners does not require changing the destination—but creating more ways for students to get there? Educators from across the country explored this question during ADAC’s Summer Learning Series webinar, Universal Design for Learning: Start the Year by Designing for All Learners. Led by Kaitlyn Weston, ADAC Director of Instructional Coaching and […]
Continuing the National Conversation on Supporting Middle School Learners
Featured in NCEA Momentum Following the success of ADAC’s Middle School Mindset webinar, we were honored to continue the conversation in the Summer 2026 issue of Momentum, the official magazine of NCEA. The article expands on many of the themes explored during the webinar, including student belonging, engagement, executive functioning, literacy, and practical strategies for […]
Anchored in Faith: Catholic School Leaders Chart New Pathways to Inclusion
What does it take to build a Catholic school where every student and every family feels they belong? That question brought 140 Catholic education leaders from dioceses and schools across the country to the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland on June 18 for Anchored in Faith: Charting Pathways to Inclusion, co-hosted by ADAC […]
More Than a Webinar: A National Conversation on Supporting Middle School Learners
More than 260 educators from 35 states joined the recent Middle School Mindset Webinar, a national conversation focused on one of the most important—and often most challenging—stages of student development: the middle school years. Moderated by Dr. Denise Ball, Chief Operating Officer at ADAC, the webinar was the culmination of a collaborative effort between ADAC, […]
