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Keep Talking to Yourself - it's Doing Wonders for Your Brain | The Challenge of Creating Schools That Work for Everyone | How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies |
Keep Talking to Yourself - it's Doing Wonders for Your Brain
The Challenge of Creating Schools That Work for Everyone
How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies
FOR TEACHERS: 6 Hand Signals that Bring Learning to Life
Learn about a simple, visible, and nonintrusive way to gather feedback on student reasoning and comprehension instantly. Many teachers use hand signals for classroom management but they can also be an effective tool for providing instant feedback and valuable insight for teachers about students' moment-to-moment reasoning and comprehension of the content being discussed.
FOR PARENTS: What Your Kids Need Most From You
It costs nothing and takes only moments a day. It’s at the core of every relationship - we want to be seen - we want to matter. Read more here and take the “little p presence” challenge!
FOR TEACHERS: Strategies for Students with Scattered Brains
Teachers can help students strengthen their brain's executive function with "workouts" in which they practice pausing, prioritizing, improving their working memory, and mapping their options. Children and youth can be taught to develop their executive functioning to become more successful self-directed learners. Explicit instruction about executive function and how to improve it is especially useful for students with learning challenges. Learn more here.
FOR SCHOOL LEADERS: Principal of a School on the Edge
Ms. V, the principal of an alternative school opens up about the challenges and rewards of shepherding at-risk kids to graduation. She has heard countless stories of personal or familial alcohol or drug addiction, chronic truancy, and physical and sexual abuse from her 121 at-risk students. Over 90 percent of the school’s students live below the poverty line; most have a history of serious disciplinary issues and have fallen too far behind at traditional schools to catch up. Learn more here from an interview Edutopia had with Ms. V.
Center for Christian Urban Educators
The Center for Christian Urban Educators seeks to encourage, equip, and empower Christian educators as they impact the lives of the children entrusted to their educational care.
