Monday, July 18

Engaging Students from the Start

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Registration

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Working lunch: Introductions, overview of workshop, purpose and scope

1:00 PM - 2:20 PM

Why know neuroscience?

2:20 PM - 2:30 PM

Coffee break

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Sustaining attention and engagement

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Best learning experience

Q&A

Group collaboration / application

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Networking reception

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Dinner

Tuesday, July 19

The Impact of Emotions on Learning
and Memory 

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Small group discussion of assigned readings

8:45 AM - 9:50 AM

How the brain's "emotional filter" can block student learning and strategies to build emotional self-control

9:50 AM - 10:15 AM

The Emotional Filter

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM

Coffee break

10:25 AM - 11:45 AM

Promoting transfer of input through the emotional filter

The video game model for mindset, engagement and perseverance

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Q&A and application collaborations

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch

Wednesday, July 20

Memory, Narratives and Neuroplasticity

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Small group discussion of assigned readings

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Promoting patterning for memory encoding

Maximizing successful memory links

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM

Coffee break

10:25 AM - 12:00 PM

Narrative power and neuroplasticity

Q&A and small group topic specific collaboration and feedback

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Narrative power and neuroplasticity

Q&A and applications collaborations

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch

Thursday, July 21

Building the Environment for the Memory & Cognition

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Small group discussion of assigned readings

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Durable neural networks of memory

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM

Coffee break

10:25 AM - 11:45 AM

Mistakes, multisensory memory

11:45 PM - 12:00 PM

Q&A and application collaborations

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch

Friday, July 22

Maximizing Students' Highest Potentials

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Small group discussion of assigned readings

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Changin needs for executive functions

The developing prefrontal cortex

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM

Coffee break

10:25 AM - 11:45 AM

Executive functions across the curriculum

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Future: In Neuroscience and in your goals