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The Connected and Valued Child: Targeting the Social and Emotional Brain

The CTTL September 17, 2020

The Responsive Classroom approach reaches far beyond the old perception of social and emotional curriculums producing “nice” kids in a warm and fuzzy environment. It allows us to build intelligent

The Teenage Brain

The CTTL September 10, 2020

Most diagrams of the brain are so detailed, it’s overwhelming, yet understanding the regions of our brain is crucial for education.

Dialing Down Stress Without Dumbing Down My Class

The CTTL September 3, 2020

Changing a schedule is a large scale effort. What was I doing on a smaller scale in my physics class to combine rigor and well-being, strategies that could be done

Emotion and Cognition: Creating a Positive Classroom Culture

The CTTL July 30, 2020

There are two integral questions that teachers often overlook but need to ask themselves as they head into the school year: how do I want my classroom to feel and

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The Connected and Valued Child: Targeting the Social and Emotional Brain

The Teenage Brain

Dialing Down Stress Without Dumbing Down My Class

Emotion and Cognition: Creating a Positive Classroom Culture