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Mount Comfort Elementary pilot uses Cognimoves to strengthen K‑3 executive‑function skills
Summary
At the March 10 Mount Vernon School Board meeting, Principal Donnie Turner described a year‑long pilot of Cognimoves at Mount Comfort Elementary (K–1) that staff say is linked with gains on district assessments and targeted interventions for students showing low growth.
Donnie Turner, principal of Mount Comfort Elementary, told the Mount Vernon School Board on March 10 that his school has piloted a cognitive‑motor program called Cognimoves for kindergarten and first‑grade students and is seeing early academic and behavioral improvements.
Turner said the program, delivered twice daily with short interactive videos, “primes them for academic success” by practicing executive‑function skills such as memory, focus, impulse control and task switching. He told the board the program pairs whole‑class daily Cognimoves sessions with targeted small‑group and one‑on‑one interventions for students who show limited growth on the district’s screening assessments.
Why it matters: executive functioning in early grades is strongly tied to…
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