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Meeting 1:
Justification and Brain Structure (August 2009)
Introduction
to the Books (links)

Accessing the book on-line
Introduction PowerPoint
Introduction reading questions
(doc)
Your amazing brain pamphlet
(doc)
Sheep brain dissection guide
(doc)
Brain regions tabbed book
(doc)
Brain structures PowerPoint
Follow up email message
(doc)
Meeting 2:
Physiology of Learning (September 2009)
Walking review questions
(doc)
Learning and Neural Connections PowerPoint
The brain and learning flip tabs
(doc)
Follow up email message
(doc)
Meeting 3:
The Teenage Brain (October 2009)
Preparing the Brain for School; chapter 2 questions
(doc)
How well do you know the teenage brain
quiz (doc)
How well do you know the teenage brain quiz answers
(doc)
Teenage Brain PowerPoint
Follow up email message
(doc)
Meeting 4:
Engagement and attention (November 2009)
Reading guide questions
(doc)
Engagement and attention PowerPoint
Follow up email message
(doc)
Meeting 5:
Input Quantity and Repetition (February 2010)
Input quantity PowerPoint
Box opening analogy:
box
1,
box 2,
box 3,
box 4,
box 5,
box 6
(doc)
Meeting 6:
Coherence (April 2010)
Coherence PowerPoint
Meeting 7:
Timing (May 2010)
Timing PowerPoint
Meeting 8: Review (September
2010)
Review PowerPoint
Review handout (doc)
Meeting 9: Error Correction (October
2010)
PowerPoint presentation
Group Readings (doc)
Meeting 10:
Movement (May
2011)
Movement PowerPoint
Strategies for movement
(doc)
Meeting 11:
Emotional
States (October
2011)
Emotional States PowerPoint presentation
(pdf)
Big ideas recalled from previous
meetings (pdf)
Strategies used at SHS to Positively
Influence States (pdf)
Additional information about rituals
and how school culture influences states
(pdf)
A resource for energizers
Meeting 11:
More On Emotional
States (November
2011)
More on Emotional States PowerPoint
presentation (pdf)
What's to come:
Stress and the
Brain
Unconscious
processing
The social
brain
Rewards and
choice
Memory
Motivation
The physical
environment
Multiple
intelligences
Theory of mind
Mindsets
Intelligence is
fragile
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