Our guest for this podcast episode is Mitch Weathers.

Executive functioning skills are the transferable durable skills that students need to be successful in school and life, including organizational habits, time management, goal setting, self-regulation, and more.

The two main reasons that schools leave these skills to chance is time and know-how. Especially in secondary schools, the focus is on content and not necessarily the skills to access the content. Mitch is on a mission to change that so that kids are better prepared for college, career, and life in general.

Mitch talks about the science of teaching as another aspect of what continues to be missing in schools, and he ultimately recommends