ExQ® is a curriculum that teaches middle and high school students essential Executive Function skills to help them become independent learners, fully prepared for college and career success.

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.

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How ExQ is different from other Executive Function Curriculums

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  • 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.
Learn more about how ExQ is proven to improve student success!

The ExQ Experience

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The ExQ® Experience
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The ExQ Experience Executive Function Assessment

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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The ExQ Experience - ExQ Learning Profile

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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The ExQ Experience - Customized Executive

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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The ExQ Experience - Personalized Coaching

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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The ExQ Experience - M-E-T-A Training

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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The ExQ Experience - Scoring

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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The ExQ Experience - Scoring

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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What Schools are Saying

ExQ helped our students understand more about their own learning abilities, prompting increased independence and more positive classroom behaviors.
In addition to expanding their understanding of their own learning strengths and weaknesses, ExQ lessons helped our students develop a daily practice of planning habits and organizational techniques to help them achieve their academic goals. School-wide, ExQ helped us create a positive culture of learning, empowering our teachers and students with increased self-awareness and confidence about designing their own futures!

ExQ as a training tool is effective and results after just one semester indicated that there was statistically significant improvement in students’ metacognition.
Secondly, the reduction in the gap between observers’ ratings and those of students’ own ratings also suggest more realistic and accurate self-appraisal of personal competence.
We also found that most parents indicated a noticeable difference in their child’s ability to manage emotions effectively.  We are excited about the long-term potential of teaching our students Executive Function skills mastery.

While it’s still early in the implementation process, we have been impressed with student engagement and behavior as we have implemented ExQ for School. We also appreciate our teachers’ and coaches’ positive attitudes during these challenging times and their willingness to embrace change and try a new curriculum!  As we progress and expand, we will continue to use the Teacher Portal to help our staff learn more about EF teaching strategies and continue work to create a social and emotional learning structure that supports our students’ development of good learning habits and strong relationship behaviors.  We are excited about the foundation that ExQ provides to help us create a culture of Executive Function!

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