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We can’t wait to see you at our conference this weekend: Educating Anxious Brains. Various…
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Take Time for You: Self-Care Action Plans for Educators by...
Teaching is an emotionally and cognitively demanding job, a fact that the public does not…
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“Educating Anxious Brains”: Digging Deeper
I wrote two weeks ago about our first 2020 education conference: Educating Anxious Brains, in San…
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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversities...
Nadine Burke Harris explains that she wrote The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of…
Learning Grows: The Science of Motivation for the Classroom Teacher
Andrew C. Watson, the editor of Learning and the Brain Blog, long-time teacher at some…
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Two Swings, Two Misses: The New York Times on Education
Two recent articles in the New York Times have gotten lots of teacherly attention. What’s…
Preschool for Parents: Surprising Long-Term Benefits
Head Start programs prepare young children — especially those from lower socio-economic cohorts — for success in school. Can these programs help more if extended by the parents? Continue reading
Investigating Mindfulness: How Do We Know Its Benefits?
We would, of course, like to see studies with larger sample sizes, active control conditions, longer-term evaluation of results and so forth. This study find some positive trends, but overall isn’t impressed with the research progress over the last 13 years. Continue reading
Use Your Words: The Impact of Parent and Teacher Speech...
It’s finals time! As the promise of spring and summer days rolls in, the increase…
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Emotion: Cognition’s Rudder
We are not rational beings. In fact, many aspects of our cognition are inherently emotional….