From July 21 - 25, 2025, Learning & the Brain is offering a Summer Institute on the oceanside campus of UCSB.
Join us for an interactive training that explores the topics of attention, emotion, memory, and executive functions in learning, and how to apply these insights to effective teaching strategies.
This introductory level Institute focuses on neuroscience-based approaches to teaching and learning, and examines ways to develop student engagement, emotional self-management, sustained effort, durable understanding, and top-down executive functions such as organization, planning, decision-making, critical analysis, and creative thinking.
Through lectures and facilitated discussion, participants will explore neuro-logical approaches to understanding and meeting the academic, social, emotional, and executive function skills students need. As an introductory level course, this Institute does not address specific learning differences. Designed to be hands-on, participation is limited to 45 attendees.