Description
Course Details
Instructors
Sarah Ward, MS, CCC/SLP
Anna Vagin, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Karen Tzanetopoulos, M.S., CCC-SLP
Jess Curtin, M.Ed.
Brooke Ober, M.S., SLP
Patty Johnson, M.S., CCC/SLP
Date
August 11, 2026 – August 11, 2027
Full year access
Format
On-Demand Webinar
(runtime 13.5 hours)
1.35 CONTACT HOURS
1.35 ASHA CEUs
1.35 AOTA CEUs
16.8 NBCOT PDUs
1.35 NY SLP CEUs
1.35 CTLE credit/contact hours,
1.35 CEUs for NY social workers
We report to CE Broker Tracking #50-31070 (selected states and disciplines), #20-1400187
Cost
$399
Target Audience: SLPs • OTs • Special Educators • General Educators • Administrators • Tutors • Social Workers Homeschool educators • Parents of complex learners
Instruction Methods: Lecture, slides, video, demonstration
Level: Intermediate (Appropriate for Students in grades 3– 8)
Two Audiences. One Through-Line.
If you’re a teacher, you’ve heard it before: “Here is the new reading curriculum. And a new math curriculum. And an SEL program. And now an EF program.” You can’t do it all — and you shouldn’t have to. The truth is, executive function is already living inside the lessons you teach every day. You just need to see it, name it, and use the right language to make it visible to your students. That’s the next level.
If you’re an SLP, OT, counselor, or clinician, you spend each day strengthening foundational skills with the hope that those gains translate into stronger academic and social outcomes. But how do we intentionally build that bridge? Here’s the answer: every time you strengthen oral language, schema, and executive function, you are also strengthening math, writing, and social learning — even if you never open a math book or a writing assignment. The cognitive scaffolding is the same. The next level is understanding why and showing your team.
The Through-Line
Math. Writing. Social-emotional learning. They all rest on the same hidden foundation: the ability to build a mental picture, hold it in mind, talk yourself through it, and act on it. That foundation is built from three interwoven strands — executive function, oral language, and schema. Executive function is what lets students plan, sustain attention, shift flexibly, and follow through. Oral language — including self-talk and the precise vocabulary we give students — is how EF and schema get built and applied. Schema is how students organize what they know — the mental model that lets them recognize a math problem type, anticipate where a story is going, or read a social situation.
Pull any one of these threads, and the other two come with it. That’s why a clinician working on mental state verbs is also strengthening writing. That’s why a teacher reframing math vocabulary is also building EF. That’s the next level– and it’s where this conference lives.
In the first segment: Learn the Through-Line. Four nationally recognized clinician-educators present their frameworks. You’ll leave with the research, the language, and the lens. Next: Apply & Practice. The same four faculty return for hands-on practice labs. You’ll work with real materials, see real classroom and therapy examples, troubleshoot with the experts, and build the bridge between understanding and doing. And then: To close the learning experience participants will experience a 1-hour immersive session led by Brooke Ober, M.S. SLP, and Patty Johnson, M.S., CCC/SLP, founders of The Skola — a nature-based elementary school built around one big idea: when students move, wonder, talk, build, map, notice, and tell stories about the world around them, executive function, oral language, schema, literacy, math, and social learning all grow together. This session will bring the conference’s through-line to life through: Simple interdisciplinary routines any teacher can bring outside — no forest campus required. A fresh lens for seeing outdoor learning not as an “extra,” but as a powerful way to make learning stick, spark engagement, and help students truly experience the concepts they are learning throughout the school day. No more being inspired but unsure where to start. By day two you’ll have practiced what you learned with the people who designed it — and you’ll see exactly how your work connects to every other discipline in your students’ day.
What You’ll Walk Away With:
✓ A unified lens for seeing EF, oral language, and schema as the through-line of math, writing, and SEL ✓ Concrete tools — already practiced — to use Monday morning in your classroom, therapy room, or coaching session ✓ A new way to explain your work to colleagues, parents, and administrators across disciplines ✓ A community of teachers, SLPs, OTs, counselors, ed therapists, and parents asking the same big questions you are.
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About the Instructor
Sarah Ward, M.S., CCC/SLP has over 23 years of experience in diagnostic evaluations, treatment and case management of children, adolescents and adults with language learning disabilities, nonverbal learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, executive dysfunction, Asperger’s disorders and social pragmatics.
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Karen Tzanetopoulos, M.S., CCC-SLP is a Speech-language therapist, math learning specialist, and co-author of How Children Learn Math: The Science of Math Learning in Research and Practice. Karen reveals the hidden language and cognitive demands behind math — and how SLPs and teachers alike can make them transparent for every learner. Karen is a nationally recognized math learning expert and provides professional development to schools across the country.
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Anna Vagin, Ph.D., is a licensed speech/language pathologist with over 30 years of experience. Currently, in private practice in Marin County, California, she provides individual sessions and social learning groups to families and children 8 years through young adulthood. Her particular interests are using media and gaming, including Therapeutically Applied Role-Playing Games, to support students with social cognition and language differences, and the role of mental processes in communication, relationships, and life satisfaction.
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Jess Curtin, M.Ed is a special educator and senior consultant with Vivido (now part of Wilson Language Training). For 25+ years, Jess has taught educators how to use Brain Frames®, EmPOWER™, and Unlocking Sentences™ — visual tools that make the invisible patterns of language visible so students can get ideas out of their heads and onto paper. She is a co-author of EmPOWER: Classroom Materials and EmPOWER: Tools for Teaching Expository Writing. Currently, Jess makes up 1/2 of the new Writing Science and Instruction department at Wilson Language Training.
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Brooke Ober, MS, SLP is a speech-language pathologist with over 20 years of experience across hospitals, schools, and private practice. Her work has increasingly focused on executive functioning and social-emotional learning. She has consulted with schools nationwide and helped develop a two-week overnight camp in Maine designed to support neurodivergent children in building executive functioning, social, and independence skills. Brooke is the co-owner of MindBright Therapy and the co-founder of The Skola, a nature, place, and project-based elementary school in Whitefish, Montana. She is passionate about viewing education through the lens of the science of learning - designing authentic learning experiences that intentionally integrate executive functioning, social-emotional learning, and meaningful application into everyday academics.
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Patty Johnson is an ASHA-certified speech-language pathologist and co-owner of MindBright Therapy. Through intention, creativity, and curiosity, Patty strives to find the topics that spark students' interests to help them learn and build self-confidence. Patty is co-founder of The Skola, a nature, place, and project-based elementary school in Whitefish, MT. She is a certified Structured Literacy Dyslexia Interventionist. Patty will complete a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Language and Literacy through the MGHIHP in August 2026.
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Approved by NYSED for Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE hours) . This webinar will qualify for 13.5 approved (CTLE approval 23490)
