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Chronic, unmediated stress often results in a condition known as an allostatic load. Allostatic load is carryover stress. Instead of returning to a healthy baseline of homeostasis, the growing brain a...

Impulsivity is commonly misdiagnosed as AD/HD, but it is actually an exaggerated response to stress that serves as a survival mechanism:

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Mood can change quickly, but an attitude changes only through awareness and a true desire to choose a different one. Attitudes influence and flavor a student's every thought and action. An attitude he...

Make good grades the by-product of success in your class, not the central goal.

Common issues in low-income families include depression, chemical dependence, and hectic work schedules—all factors

Rover, or garbage disposal is. Analogies and metaphors that incorporate simple household and backyard items help illuminate content (for example, Your brain's hippocampus works a bit like a surge prot...

Need to cultivate persistent, purposeful, focused effort to be lifelong learners. On the one hand, a student can rely too heavily on talent and natural abilities, resulting in little effort because he...

Aggression enables a student to feel in control and take charge of a situation.

From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume

For students to succeed, they'll need to become consummate lifelong learners. The term lifelong learner is certainly not a new one, and yet there is a lasting quality to it. Its conciseness, its impli...

Some teachers may interpret students' emotional and social deficits as a lack of respect or manners, but it is more accurate and helpful to understand that the students come to school with a narrower...

We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth.

Learn, discuss, then take a walk. The essential point is that teachers must encourage personal processing time or settling time after new learning so that material can solidify.

Giving students appropriate amounts of control over their daily lives at school helps diminish the effects of chronic and acute stress and increases engagement.

Healthy neuron, a stressed neuron generates a weaker signal, handles less blood flow, processes less oxygen, and extends fewer connective branches to nearby cells. The prefrontal cortex and the hippoc...

It is the effort put forth under the hardship of doing that which seems unreachable, unachievable, and just too far out of one's comfort zone that produces substantial growth.

Remember that showing you care has more of an effect on student motivation than your level of content knowledge. When you yourself are enthusiastic and engaged, your students will feel more excited ab...