Dr. Sarah Oberle

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Mind the Gap: Making Education Work Across the Globe · Why Executive Function Matters for Every Child with Sarah Oberle, Mind the Gap, Ep.127 (S6,E25) · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

Very specific and very thoughtful about this supports themselves, not just say here, take an alphabet and look at it when you forget how you make a letter.

But um highlighting just the letters of that student's nose because now you're giving them another task of, Okay, I have this alphabet, but now you have to visually scan, which you're wasting your working memory.

And not to mention the fact that our students who

aren't fluent in letter identification and letter formation.

Uh and then we say look at the alphabet above the board across the room for that.

for that um symbol, that character that you don't know what it looks like, and it's sitting among twenty five, it's sitting with twenty-five other characters.

So um we just talk about really practical ways to make these little wins that add up to um hopefully a big bang for your buck in terms of

saving your students working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility for what matters most, which is the learning.

Um, I think two things.

I think one, over time you start to realize

Either there's significant behavior issues and you realize like something's going wrong in what you're doing, hopefully you're reflecting.

you know, in terms of inattention, in terms of kids that aren't getting started with their work or they can't seem to finish or, you know, they're just chit chatting.

Or you see ac academic

uh decline.

And some of that can be, and we talk about in the book too, sometimes when kids aren't doing well, it looks like they have a content problem.

When actually it's not a problem related to reading or related to math.

It's a problem with their learning behaviors.

It's a problem with their ability to pay attention during the instruction or the ability to

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