Edutopia – Stephen Merrill
“Getting distractible teenagers to focus in school sounds great, especially to educators, but the language of self-control can sound uncomfortably compliance-based. In fact, though, executive function involves both cognitive and behavioral skills that are crucial to learning—goal setting and long-term planning, for example—and “the connotation should really be one of autonomy and not compliance,” Duckworth contends.” (more)