Isabel Valdivia

I am a first year Ph.D. student in the Human Development, Child and Adolescent Development concentration. My goal is to produce research that informs educators about how to adapt their classroom practices to a diverse group of students in order to improve their academic achievement. I want to explore if developing socio-emotional skills intentionally supports executive functions development, or if it is the development of executive functions that supports the development of socio-emotional skills, and to what extent that interaction has an impact on academic achievement in school-age children.