Use this self-reflection tool from Teaching the Whole Teen by Rachel Poliner and Jeffrey Benson with your students and help them discover what gets in the way of being their best selves and how they can further develop themselves.
In this chapter from Brain-Based Learning, authors Eric Jensen and Liesl McConchie discuss how each of the senses impact learning.
Use this study guide to Clarity for Learning to lead a book study and dive deep into the concepts presented in the book.
Use this self-reflection tool from Teaching the Whole Teen by Rachel Poliner and Jeffrey Benson with your students to help them to discover ways that they could be more collaborative and develop a growth mindset in their collaboration skills.
Authors of Great Teaching by Design John Hattie, Vince Bustamante, John Almarode, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey lead you through how to turn good intentions into great practice through a model of implementation.
The SEL Skill Trajectory from The Other Side of the Report Card details social-emotional learning (SEL) skill categories and subcategories, and the specific observational behaviors that compose each across the developmental trajectory. (K-12)
This bookmark from The Executive Function Guidebook by Roberta Strosnider and Valerie Sharpe includes questions to be asked about learning and questions to be asked about self-regulation.
In this chapter from Brain-Based Learning, authors Eric Jensen and Liesl McConchie guide teachers through the principles that will support them in sustaining their physical, emotional, and social health so that they can be the teacher they strive to be.
This six-step planning model from Gayle Gregory’s Differentiated Instructional Strategies helps teachers make critical decisions about differentiated instruction and assessment.
In this excerpt from The Poverty Problem, discover how a strange sequence of events and one individual’s
arbitrary decision shaped the nation’s thinking and behavior toward poverty.
"Over the 40 years I’ve worked in early childhood education, I’ve believed many times that a revolution in the field was imminent. Heaven knows we’ve certainly needed one, as misguided policies have brought about increasingly inappropriate practices. Surely people who understand child development would finally begin making the decisions about ECE!
Clearly, I’ve been naïve..."
Read the full blog by Rae Pica, author of What If We Taught the Way Children Learn? and What If Everybody Understood Child Development?, regarding her experience in early childhood education and her thoughts on the response of schools to COVID-19.
Excerpted from The Education Revolution, this lesson groups brain-based learning strategies for increasing the rate of recall and retention more efficiently.