The SPARQ-EF™ System is a step-by-step implementation framework to help you make SPARQ-EF™ Early Elementary Classroom Program even easier to integrate into what you’re already teaching!

With the SPARQ-EF System, you get:

• SPARQ-EF Early Elementary Classroom Program, a full curriculum built to help students build skills in four executive function (EF) Phases – Fostering Attention Development, Establishing Classroom Routines and Rules, Regulating Through Tasks, and Learning Through Self-Evaluation – with a flexible teaching framework and step-by-step lessons.

• Video Support which works alongside SPARQ-EF lesson plans to provide you with quick, practical tools to help consistently build students’ executive function skills throughout the day.

• Video Support Educator Workbook (a $34 value – included!) chock full of support pages that helps you slow down, process your learning, and consider how to apply it in manageable ways.

SPARQ-EF is not a bulky manual or another screen-based program.

SPARQ-EF is engaging, developmentally appropriate, hands-on lesson plans you can start using right away – designed to fit naturally into your school day – with an easy-to-follow structure that includes:

• Overview:  introduces what the lesson plan addresses and why you’d want to use it

• Pro Tip:  research-based evidence

• Materials Needed:  materials needed to teach the lesson

• Script:  word-for-word script that you can read to your class or adapt to your needs

• Plan:  step-by-step instructions for the task

• Modifications:  ways to adapt the lesson for your different types of learners

• Reflexive Question Bank:  specific questions to use during the lesson to foster self-awareness, self-monitoring and self-direction in your students

• Visual Plan:  visual steps for the lesson that can be projected on a screen or printed for your students to follow

SPARQ-EF™ Video Support provides quick, practical tools to help you consistently build students’ executive function skills throughout the day.

Use with the SPARQ-EF™ Video Support Workbook to turn key ideas into everyday classroom practice. Each section includes clear takeaways, ready-to-use teacher language, reflection prompts, and practical applications to help you consistently support executive function throughout the day.

Use the SPARQ-EF™ Video Support Educator Workbook as a guide to slow down, process your learning, and consider how to apply it in manageable ways – reflect on your current practices, notice what’s working, identify small changes to try, and track your growth over time. Each page is structured to guide your thinking. You’ll find:

• Key ideas to anchor your understanding

• Teacher language you can use right away

• Reflection questions to support your own self-awareness

• Simple ways to apply the strategy in your classroom

The full program includes 91 lesson plans.

• PHASE 1: Fostering Attention Development
  Students learn to notice where their attention is and practice pointing it where it matters most.

• PHASE 2: Establishing Classroom Routines And Rules
  Expectations turn into simple, kid-friendly plans students can follow, remember, and feel successful completing.

• PHASE 3: Regulating Through Tasks
  Children learn to break tasks into steps, stick with them, and grow more independent in their work.

• PHASE 4: Learning Through Self-Evaluation
  Students discover how to check their own work, learn from mistakes, and make improvements next time.

SPARQ-EF can be used in two ways:

1. Follow the full structure – Complete each phase in order, using each lesson to gradually build students’ EF skills.

2. Use a flexible approach – Select and implement individual lesson plans based on your classroom’s specific needs, focusing on the skills or goals most relevant to your students.

Executive Function (EF) is self-direction. Children develop EF skills by practicing directing themselves, not by being directed by others. SPARQ-EF teaches these skills through four Phases – providing your students with the opportunities to practice self-directing while helping you manage your classroom.

SPARQ-EF is an asset to both teachers and students.

Improved behavior and a calmer, more predictable classroom.
Students will learn self-regulation, impulse control, and emotional management, leading to:

• Fewer interruptions

• Less impulsive behavior

• Fewer conflicts and emotional outbursts

• Smoother transitions between activities

• Reduced stress for both students and teachers

Increased focus, attention, and task completion from your students.
Students stay on task, follow directions, and complete work more consistently, which means teachers spend less time redirecting and more time teaching, and students realize stronger academic outcomes.

Greater student independence.
Students will learn to start tasks, organize their materials, and independently work through challenges, allowing teachers to do less micromanaging and the freedom to provide more one-on-one support.

Long-term, school-wide benefits.
Early EF skill-building creates confident, capable learners who carry those skills with them, year after year. Teachers across all grade levels will benefit from EF-capable students entering their classrooms.

The SPARQ-EF System is available for online purchase as digital resources, including two downloadable files and access to the Video Support Hub. Each lesson plan phase can also be purchased individually, separate from the full system.

You have questions? We have answers! Contact us at sparqef@seedsoflearningllc.com.