Emotional Regulation for Kids With ADHD
Summary: This article suggests six brain-based strategies to help kids with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder build confidence, engagement, and focus.
Source: Dr. Lori Desautels, Edutopia, March 31, 2017
Categories: SEL Basics, Mental Health, Brain-Based Learning
Study of Brain Waves Could Answer How Learning Occurs
Summary: This article reports on an experimental study done by Washington State University which studies how children respond in terms of eye movements, pulse, and brain waves as they are taught in a classroom environment. This research seeks to identify the link between teaching and learning and using an experimental research design, determine how students engage in learning from a cognitive and emotional perspective.
Source: Alison DeNisco, District Administration, May 2016
Categories: Brain Based Learning. Educational Research
Emotions Help Steer Students’ Learning, Studies Find
Summary: In a new book, Emotions, Learning, and the Brain, Immordino-Yang and her colleagues at USC’s Brain Creativity Institute found that as students learn new rules during a task, such as the most efficient way to answer a math problem or the best deck to choose in a card game, they show emotional and physical responses long before they became consciously aware of the rules or are able to articulate them.
Source: Sarah D. Sparks, Education Week, April 27, 2016
Categories: SEL Research, Brain-Based Learning
Brains in Pain Cannot Learn!
Summary: This article cites the importance of what our students are bringing with them to school in terms of stress and possibly even trauma to their brains and the recognition that learning is difficult and perhaps even impossible when the brain is in stress response mode.
Source: Dr. Lori Desautels, Edutopia, January 7, 2016
Categories: Brain-Based Learning, SEL Basics
Using Brain Science to Boost Social and Emotional Skills
Summary: This issue brief from the University of Minnesota Extension Series explores the relevance of brain science to social and emotional learning, with a particular emphasis on how youth workers can apply this learning to youth development programs
Source: Susan Beaulieu and Kathyrn Sharpe, University of Minnesota Youth Development Issue Brief, July 2015
Category: SEL Basics, SEL Research, Brain-Based Learning
School Neuroscience Unleashes Students’ Brain Power
Summary: Districts deploy the science of learning to engage students, close achievement gaps and overcome disabilities. The article also includes some suggestions as to how to make neuroscience work for your school or district.
Source: Matt Zalaznick, District Administration, July 2015
Categories: Brain-Based Learning, Student Engagement
Louis Cozolino – The Brain is a Social Organ
Summary: Dr. Louis Cozolino, a psychologist and neuroscientist at Pepperdine University talks about the brain as a social organ and that it evolved to connect with other brains.
Source: Dr. Louis Cozzolino, Inspire Ideas, Capella University, May 27, 2011
Categories: SEL Research, Brain-Based Learning
