The official website of Dr. George McCloskey
Executive functions: assessment, intervention and instruction.
George McCloskey, PhD, is a professor and Director of School Psychology Research at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, author of the McCloskey Executive Functions Scales and two books on executive functions, and co-author, with his wife Laurie McCloskey, of the SILAS/McCloskey Executive Functions Toolkit and the children's book The Day Frankie Left His Frontal Lobes at Home.
Books, scales and tools
His work, in print and in practice.
A comprehensive model
A scale built on a comprehensive model of executive functions.
The model incorporates multiple facets of executive control: self-regulation, self-realization, and self-determination. The result is a scale that allows greater depth and coverage of the multi-dimensional and complex facets of EF.
- Self-regulation
- Self-realization
- Self-determination
Clusters and composites of the MEFS
- Attention
- Engagement
- Optimization
- Efficiency
- Memory
- Inquiry
- Solution
- Self-Realization
- Self-Determination
Presentations and workshops
Where to learn from him.
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24–25 Mar 2026
IL SLD Support Project Annual Conference
The 4th annual conference of the Illinois SLD Support Project -
16–18 Apr 2026
Learning and the Brain: “Teaching Executive Skills”
Conference and pre-conference workshop (April 16th) -
13–17 Jul 2026
Learning and the Brain Summer 2026 Institute
“Executive Skills in the Classroom”
Questions about the scales, the toolkit or a workshop?
Dr. McCloskey can be reached directly by email.