Janet’s Executive Functions CV

Janet’s Executive Functions CV

Whilst studying towards a Master of Specialist Teaching in Learning and Behaviour Janet completed a research paper about executive functions through Massey University. Graduating in March 2017 she continued to be interested in executive functions and wrote her first book, ’The Executive Functions Toolkit for Classroom Teachers’ which she self-published in November 2018. Since then she has written two more toolkits about executive functions, 'Growing Self-regulating Kids: The Executive Functions Toolkit for Parents’ self-published in February 2022, and ‘Mastering the 3Rs: The Executive Functions Toolkit for Reading, Writing and Arithmetic’ self-published in October 2026.

Executive functions, is an umbrella term for a set of cognitive skills and processes that enable people to make decisions, solve problems and manage their own thinking and behaviour in order to achieve future goals. The three core executive functions are response inhibition, cognitive flexibility and working memory. The higher order executive functions are organisation, time management, goal setting planning/prioritising and task initiation. These critical life skills (executive functions) help us to be self-managing, self-motivating, self-monitoring and ultimately self-regulating. Executive functions are all about actions: not what we know, but how we use what we know to get things done.

CV of Executive Functions Workshops:
2026:
Fairfield Intermediate - Learning Support Team
David Street School - Whole Staff
David Street School - Learning Assistants
2025:
Te Kuiti SENCOS
Te Awamutu LSCs
Te Awamutu Intermediate
MOE Advisors & Hamilton ORS Teachers
2024:
Ngaruawahia Primary School Staff and their invited guests
Ngaruawahia Primary School Teacher-aides
Motumaoho School Staff
2023:
Te Parirau o Tainui Waka - Cluster 14 RTLB
Firth Primary School Staff
2022:
Tauranga Kaahui Ako: DPs, APs, LSCs, teachers
Tauranga Moana - Cluster 18 RTLB

2021:
Dyslexia Plus Whangarei - teachers, parents and children
Taumaranui/Te Awamutu - Cluster 17 RTLB

Manurewa - Cluster 12 RTLB
2020:
St Kentigern Boys’ School – Auckland
Manurewa - Cluster 12 RTLB

2019:
Key Speaker - Learning Disabilities Association NZ Conference (LDANZ)
Christchurch - Cluster 34 RTLB and their invited guests
The Kauri Centre, Hamilton
Maeroa Intermediate School Staff
Melville Intermediate School Staff
2018:
Marian Catholic School Hamilton – Junior School Staff
Marian Catholic School Hamilton – Parent workshop
Hukanui School – SENCO and students