Gretchen Wegner

Gretchen Wegner, M.Ed,

Founder of the Anti-Boring Learning Lab

What you’ll learn

Workshop 1: Easy Improv Games to Help Autistic Students Roll With Change

How simple improv games strengthen executive function and help autistic students adapt to unexpected changes.
How the “Yes, and…” alphabet story game combines a predictable structure with opportunities to practice flexible thinking.
How regular improv practice can increase social confidence, reduce anxiety, and support flexibility at school, at home, and in everyday situations.

Workshop 2: Stuck Before Starting? A Fun Way to Help Students Practice Momentum, Not Perfection

Why task initiation depends on cognitive flexibility, working memory, and impulse control, especially for neurodivergent students.
How applied improv can reduce anxiety and build executive-function skills through games like “We Yes And” and Action/Word Switch.
How regular, low-stakes practice and prioritizing momentum over perfection can gradually improve students’ ability to start tasks.

Workshop 3: A Trick to Spice Up Flashcard Studying (and Build Cognitive Flexibility)

How an “anti-boring” flashcard technique uses speaking, sorting, and explaining to make studying more active and engaging.
How reshuffling categories encourages learners to form new connections and strengthen cognitive flexibility.
How retrieval practice, physical interaction, and playful learning can improve memory and engagement, especially for neurodivergent learners.

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BIO

Gretchen Wegner is a lively speaker, master teacher, and creative strategist on how to rethink learning and teaching the anti-boring way. A former classroom teacher turned academic coach, she founded the Anti-Boring Learning Lab, an online professional community where academic coaches, executive function coaches, tutors, and student support professionals gather to learn science-backed study skills and executive function strategies every student needs to thrive. What started as a toolkit Gretchen built for her own students grew into a certification platform now used by hundreds of coaches worldwide.

She is best known for her Anti-Boring Approach to Powerful Studying, combining brain science with practical, executive-function-friendly strategies that help educators turn students into more effective, engaged, and self-sufficient learners. Teachers, tutors, and coaches around the world use Anti-Boring tools to reach a wide range of students, including but not limited to:

– those with ADHD and other diagnosed learning disabilities;
– first-generation, low-income college students;
– students struggling with anxiety, overwhelm, and perfectionism;
– the unmotivated as well as the high-achieving; and
– those in the middle who have fallen through the cracks of overworked school systems.

Gretchen’s gift is distilling the science of learning into fun, digestible nuggets for educators, then translating that science into concrete strategies students can actually use. Anyone attending her presentations leaves ready to take action, in small ways and large. She has spoken at SXSW EDU, ResearchEd NYC, and Seth Perler’s TEFOS summit, and hosts the Academic Coaching Podcast.

A former Fulbright Fellow, Gretchen holds a Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction and was a credentialed middle and high school teacher. An advocate of playful rigor in school and life, she is also a public speaker, improvisational performer, lindy hop dancer, avid backpacker, and proud resident of Oakland, California.

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