Teaching without an awareness of how the brain learns is like designing a glove with no sense of what a hand looks like. If classrooms are to be places of learning, then the brain--the organ of learning--must be understood and accommodated.” (Hart, Human Brain and Human Learning)

“Exceptional Teaching for Every Mind”

“Tracking What We Teach: Curriculum Maps” (St. Andrew’s Episcopal School “Course Overview” Maps)

Transformative Teaching and Learning Websites:

• Learning & The Brain Society, Connecting Educators to Neuroscientists and Researchers
• The Learner Sketch invites users to explore their own learning strengths and challenges among the various mental processes that influence learning. The Learner Sketch is a part of a new national campaign, Faces of Learning.
• Brain-Targeted Teaching, created by Dr. Mariale Hardiman director Johns Hopkins University School of Education Neuro-Education Initiative
• The Dana Foundation News, events, and commentary on bridging neuroscience and education.
• Mind in the Making, A Journey into the Science of Early Learning
• Khan Academy (featured at the National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference 2011 and TED Talk)
• RADTeach.com (Dr. Judy Wills website that emphasizes teaching practices that engage the heart and mind to challenge all students to their highest potential)
• International Mind, Brain and Education Society
• Neuroscience and the Classroom: Making Connections: A 42-Module Video Course for K-12 teachers and school counselors

Books on the Neurodevelopmental Demands of Teaching and Learning:

• Barringer, Pohlman, Robinson. Schools for All Kinds of Minds: Boosting Student Achievement by Embracing Learning Variation
• Bransford, John. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School
• Carson, Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life

   

• Davidson, Cathy N. Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
• Galinsky, Ellen. Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs
• Hardiman, Mariale. Connecting Brain Research with Effective Teaching: The Brain Targeted Teaching Model
• Gopnick, Alison, The Philosophical Baby.
• Gopnick, Alison, Andrew Meltzoff and Patricia K. Kuhl. The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind.
• Hallowell, Edward and Bill Mayer. A Walk in the Rain with a Brain.
• Jensen, Eric. Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids Brains and What Can Schools Do About It.
• Journal of Mind, Brain and Education. (International Mind, Brain and Education Society)
• Kandel, Eric. In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
• Learning, Arts, and the Brain (Dana Foundation)
• Medina, John. Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
• Neville, H.J. (Executive Producer). Changing Brains: Effects of Experience on Human Brian Development. DVD. University of Oregon Brian Development Lab.
• Posner, Michael. Educating the Human Brain.
• Prensky, Marc. Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom.
• Ratey, John and Hagerman, Eric. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
• Sousa, David A. How the Brain Learns, Differentiation and the Brain: How Neuroscience Supports the Learner-Friendly Classroom, and How the Gifted Brain Learns
• Sousa, David., ed. Mind, Brain, & Education: Neuroscience Implications for the Classroom
• Tokuhama-Espinosa, Tracey. Making Classrooms Better: Lessons from the Cognitive Revolution that Transform Our Teaching and Mind, Brain, and Education Science: A Comprehensive Guide to the New Brain-Based Teaching
• Willingham, Dan. Why Students Don't Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom.
• Wills, Judy. Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning: Insights from a Neurologist and Classroom Teacher
• Willingham, Daniel. When Can You Trust the Experts: How to Tell Good Science from Bad Education? and Why Students' Don't Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What This Means for the Classroom. See also "Ask the Cognitive Scientist" a frequent column in The American Educator.
• Wolfe, Pat. Brain Matters: Translating Research into Classroom Practice. 2nd ed.

• Harvard University's Mind, Brain and Education (MBE) Program 
• John's Hopkins University School of Education Mind, Brain and Teaching Graduate Certificate

• Fadel, Charles and Bernie Trilling. 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times. 

• Jacobs, Heidi Hayes. Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World. 

• Wagner, Tony. 

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