March 2012
Winners of the BrainWare Safari Brain Awareness Week Grants; Test Your Neuroscience Savvy; True Multi-taskers Exist, But Don't Assume You're One of Them; Is Assessment a Four-Letter Word?
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.”
Plutarch
Winners of the BrainWare Safari Brain Awareness Week Grants; Test Your Neuroscience Savvy; True Multi-taskers Exist, But Don't Assume You're One of Them; Is Assessment a Four-Letter Word?
New Insights into the Adolescent Brain; Announcing the BrainWare Safari Brain Awareness Week Grants Program; NCATE Issues a Call for Change in Teacher Education; The Economic Value of Cognitive Skills Development
New Insights into 21st Century Skills: Gleanings from the Learning and the Brain Conference; Cognitive Skills Enhancement and Workplace Training: Chevron Corporation; Top Athletic Performance Requires Strong Cognitive Skills; Universal Design for Learning: A Neuroscience-Based Framework for Education
BrainWare Safari at Circle of Independent Learning Charter School: Strong Gains for Homeschoolers; Upcomiing Interview with David Shenk, Author of "The Genius in All of Us"' BrainWare Safari Wins Parent Tested Parent Approved Seal of Approval; Video Games in the Classroom: Seven Questions to Ask
How Brain Research IS Improving Education; Dyscalculia Math and the Brain Cognitive Skills for English Language Learners (ELL); Neuroscience and Special Education -- A New Report
Bullying without Sticks and Stones: Why Names Hurt Us Too – An Interview with Tammy Shepherd; Test Anxiety: Performing Under Pressure, by Sara Sawtelle, PhD; Tests Can Also Be Our Friends!; Upcoming Webinars
It’s Brain Awareness Week!; What the Latest Science Tells Us About ADHD, by Sara Sawtelle, PhD; Cognitive Skills and Dropouts; Our Brain’s Remarkable Plasticity, by Pamela Nevills, EdD
Helping a Child with Severe ADHD; Title I: Closing the Achievement Gap by Closing the Capacity Gap; Neuroscience and Education Webinar Series; Brain Awareness Week; What’s Your Plan?
BrainWare Safari Lifts CogAT Scores Across the Spectrum of Ability; Intel Schools of Distinction Award Receipients: Models of STEM Achievement; Got Data? Now What?; Genius is as Genius Does
Improvements in Cognitive Skills Are Sustained over Time; BrainWare Safari in Hammond Indiana's Bilingual Program; More Kudos for BrainWare Safari from the Association of Educational Publishers; Gary Indiana Students Put Stronger Cognitive Skills to Work -- And It Shows
BrainWare Safari at Pope John Paul II; Software Industry Sets High Standards for Product Evaluation Research; Don't Let Your Kids "Check Out" for the Summer; Keeping Up in a Social Media World
Keeping the Promise: The New Accountability in Education; A New Kind of Learning Partnership; What's in a Name? Proposed Changes in the DSM-5; Should We Match Teaching Styles to Learning Styles
Working Memory; Yes, Virginia, Your Brain Does Grow New Cells; Assessing the Impact of BrainWare Safari; Pat Wolfe's Training of Trainers
Plasticity: It's All Uphill from Here; Intelligence and Beliefs about Intelligence; BrainWare Safari -- New Resources
Four Brain Research Findings Every Educator Should Know -- From Dr. Pat Wolfe; Harbor Beach Michigan's Experience with BrainWare Safari -- An Interview with Curtis Boehmer, SLP; 10 Tips for BrainWare Safari Coaches
Pat Wolfe Talks BrainWare Safari; New Research Establishes the Connection between Cognitive Skill Improvement and Academic Performance; A Stimulus Program for the Intellect (and the Pocketbook)
BrainWare Safari and Attention Deficit; BrainWare Safari and Title I Students; BrainWare Safari's CODiE Finalist "Three-peat"; The Patient that Inspired a Generation of Neuroscience
Michigan School District Confirms BrainWare Safari Published Results; Neuroscience and the U.S. Education System -- A Policy Brief; BrainWare is for Adults Too; 5 Tips for Strengthening Your Brain
BrainWare Safari Wins Teacher's Choice Award; Using BrainWare Safari to Diagnose Visual System Issues; Cognitive Skills and Math Performance; Applied Neuroscience Experts Join LEC Advisory Board