ExQ trains and certifies students in nine areas to develop skills they will need to succeed in college, jobs and beyond:
Focus
ExQ trains the brain’s ability to figure out what’s important and then pay attention to it.
Impact:
Students stay on task, avoid distractions, complete work with fewer interruptions — improving productivity and reducing wasted time.
Working Memory
ExQ strengthens the ability to actively hold information in mind while doing tasks (e.g., hold several details while planning).
Impact:
Students can follow multi-step instructions, comprehend complex material, manage simultaneous information — yielding better performance and less frustration.
Prospective Memory
ExQ trains remembering to remind oneself to follow up with goals in the future.
Impact:
Students stop forgetting deadlines, follow-through with steps, and revisit prior tasks — leading to fewer missed assignments and stronger academic reliability.
Organization and Planning
ExQ develops the ability to reach goals by sorting information, making plans, and sticking to them.
Impact:
Students create systems (think: calendars, to-do lists, task breakdowns), to proactively manage workloads — reducing last-minute panic, and improving work quality.
Problem-Solving
ExQ builds the brain’s ability to dig into challenging problems, break them down and move ahead.
Impact:
Students approach obstacles with confidence, identify alternatives and adapt strategies instead of getting stuck — boosting resilience and performance in novel situations.
Mental Flexibility
ExQ develops the ability to shift perspectives, adapt to the unexpected and go with the flow.
Impact:
Students better handle changes (new teacher, new format, group work) better, adjust strategies mid-task, and collaborate effectively — improving adaptability and social learning.
Self-Awareness
ExQ trains students to determine their own strengths/weaknesses and navigate towards a better future.
Impact:
Students gain insight into how they learn, let go of their defensiveness and gain insight into how they learn, become self-advocates, and make better choices — improving independence, as less external micromanagement is needed.
Strategic Thinking
ExQ helps students develop new approaches to getting things done, work around obstacles and invent new routines without losing focus.
Impact:
Students don’t just execute tasks — they anticipate roadblocks, create new solutions, and pivot when needed — leading to better results and less wasted effort.
Emotional Resilience
ExQ includes training in recognizing and responding to emotions in a calm, collected way to meet goals.
Impact:
Students manage frustration, disappointments, and setbacks more effectively — reducing behavioral issues, increasing persistence, and improving the classroom and workplace environment.
How Does ExQ Work?
ExQ Executive Function Assessment
ExQ training begins with Executive Function Benchmark Assessment of nine areas; a comprehensive evaluation that identifies each student’s unique strengths and challenges in learning, strategizing, and self-awareness. This assessment builds students’ vision of their Future-Self, creates a psychosocial inventory, and a pathway to goal attainment by providing a clear picture of where support is needed and where growth can be accelerated.
Personalized Executive Function Training Program
Following the assessment, ExQ designs a personalized training program tailored to each student’s academic and personal goals. ExQ training is aimed at cultivating skills in the area of Study Skills, Emotional Management, Communication/Advocacy and Life Skills. This targeted plan helps students develop strategies for improved focus, planning, and independent learning.
Weekly Executive Function Skill-Building Lessons
Students participate in weekly game-based interactive lessons that strengthen cognitive and emotional regulation skills, enhance task management and fine-tune error analysis skills. Video and written journaling promotes metacognition and self-reflection skills. Each lesson is designed to build self-efficacy, confidence, and long-term success in school and beyond.
Transfer and Generalization of New Skills and Strategies
ExQ offers “My Success Playbook” that outlines comprehensive tools, insights, and strategies that have direct applicability to students’ overall success and independence beyond high school. Our methodology paints a Portrait of the Future-Self, a blueprint for success, for students, teachers, leaders and parents that can be used as a personalized learning guide that they can refer to in order to transfer skills to manage complex goals and plans as they pursue college and career pathways.
How ExQ is different from other Executive Function Curriculums
- ExQ for School directly teaches students Executive Function (EF) skills through a transformative, hands-on model.
- Students receive virtual, personalized instruction directly.
- Provides daily, mindful EF skill practice tailored to each learner.
- Fills the gap in traditional education — offering a “How to Learn” class alongside core subjects.
- Teaches why EF skills matter and how to apply them for success.
- Builds critical thinking, self-management, and independent learning abilities.
- Incorporates AI coaching, self-reflection, and learning from mistakes for continual growth.
The ExQ Experience
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EXECUTIVE FUNCTION ASSESSMENT
Discover your Executive Function Strengths & Challenges
- Answer Survey Questions
- Assess EF Skills via Fun and Interactive Games
- Predict Strengths and Challenges
- Select Virtual Coach
- Create Goal and Future-Self Videos
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ExQ LEARNING PROFILE
Personalized Executive Function Baseline
- Identifies strengths and challenges
- Determines level of self-awareness
- Establishes baseline strategic thinking
- Personalizes learning and student goals
- Connects school subjects, work habits, and grades
- Creates the foundation for individualized training
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CUSTOMIZED EF TRAINING GAMES
Targeted game-based training to exercise cognitive skills
- Build targeted and foundational cognitive skills in 7 EF areas
- Improve sustained attention and cognitive effort
- Promote endurance through increasingly complex individualized games
- Train organizational skills to handle ambiguity and implicit expectations
- Master self-efficacy skills including performance production, self-correction, and strategy use
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Personalized AI Coaching
Weekly error analysis and proactive problem solving with a virtual AI-based coach
- Reflect on mistakes in learning and execution
- Evaluate immediate and long-term consequences of “process” mistakes
- Demonstrate the link between actions and emotions and how they impact outcomes
- Connect in-game actions with Smart Habits and Mindsets to improve school performance
- Collaborative problem solving with a virtual AI-based peers/Training Partner
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M-E-T-A™ TRAINING
Weekly metacognitive lessons to build self-regulation
- Systematic Mindful Examination of Thinking and Awareness (M-E-T-A™) metacognitive training
- Written and video reflection on personal approach to learning and thinking
- Assess the impact of challenges on learning, management, and study skills
- Connect cognitive skills to daily work habits and personal goals
- Prompts to think about value and importance of strategic thinking
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SCORING
Progress and data summarized as a M-E-T-A™ Composite Index Score
- Measurement of EF skills in 4 domains of functioning
- Game Accuracy
- Self-Awareness
- Strategic Thinking
- Learning from Mistakes
- Tailored feedback connecting the cognitive process to academic performance
- Display of students’ self-efficacy with data that captures persistence, commitment to goals, and response to challenges
- Individual progress monitoring and school-wide trend tracking
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Transformation in Self-Efficacy
Applying students’ Executive Function learning and sense of competence to transferable outcomes
- Personalized recommendations to be used outside of ExQ
- Self-efficacy data describing students’ progress in ExQ goals and academic goals
- Centralized data with week-by-week trend tracking
- Deep dive into journal entries, student-created videos, and personalized TIPS (Targeted Insightful Personalized Strategies)
For Students:
For Students:
Comprehensive Executive Function benchmark assessment & individualized learning profile
Weekly customized game-based EF Training in nine areas of Executive Function
Error analysis and strategy development through personalized coaching
Self-Awareness training through the Mindful Examination of Thinking and Awareness (M-E-T-A®) approach
Video journaling and weekly guided self-reflection
My Success Playbook for self-exploration and to connect ExQ learning to college and life outcomes
For Teachers:
For Teachers:
Easy onboarding with a comprehensive Teacher Academy Portal
Fully prepared weekly Executive Function lesson plans
Guidelines to promote an Executive Function culture of self-reflection and strategy generation for school-wide success
Individual students’ EF Profile, training engagement and performance data to design support outside ExQ
Access to global student Executive Function trends at the grade-level and across the school
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