Using strategies such as discussion, songs, connections, and illustrations can improve comprehension and learning. Applying and reflecting afterwards can help guide future progress.
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
Naps in highschool students may be more beneficial to students than longer hours of continuous sleep at night. Teens can benefit as much from a
Schools need to create environments that speak to—rather than resist or suppress—teenagers’ neurological development.
Some schools across the country are revamping the design of their classrooms to include flexible seating — to promote more collaboration and creativity among students.
An alternative school in Pennsylvania has improved students’ behavior by adopting a neuroscience-based approach. In this interview, the school’s principal, Jessica Milton, and executive director,
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
If we want to use the most effective approaches with kids—and draw on new research about the brain—special education needs to change its approach.
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