According to doctors, playing may be the best thing to increase your child’s creativity, critical thinking, and resilience. Children spend up to two hours on
Responding to children appropriately using serve and return techniques are important for strengthening neural connections that support communication and social development.
Strengthening childrens brain doesn’t have to require extra resources or expense. Brain building can occur through everyday activities. You can turn these regular everyday moments
Executive function skills,such as: meeting goals, delayed gratification, problem solving, and focus, are all learned traits. Children that lack opportunities to learn and enhance these
Boredom can stimulate creativity and support learning, according to journalist Manoush Zomorodi, who shared the details of her “Bored and Brilliant” challenge during the International
Schools need to create environments that speak to—rather than resist or suppress—teenagers’ neurological development.
Let’s give students learning tasks that tell them, “You can be as smart as you want to be.”
Children who attend the weeklong SEVA Brain Camp in Greeley, Colo., work on language, literacy, motor and other skills. The annual program was designed by
David Cutler, a high-school history, government and journalism teacher, says he allows students to retake most assessments. Cutler describes how the approach puts the focus
Attention to detail. Oral and written communication. Problem Solving. Resilience. Empathy. Integrity. Skills like these are often known as “soft skills”—in contrast to things that
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