“Empowering Educators and Students: Strategies for Navigating the Realities and Thriving in Today’s Schools,” is a 5-part video series. You can watch them all or pick and choose among them. Should you want to watch the entire series, we recommend viewing them in this order:
- The Neurobiology of Preparing Brains and Bodies to Learn in the Classroom (1:34)
- Creating a Felt Sense of Safety and Belonging in School Starts with the Brain (1:50)
- The Classroom is a Nervous System: Working with Daily Regulation and Dysregulation Cycles (1:28)
- The Process of Developing Self-regulation: Understanding the Missing Pieces (1:18)
- Brain-aligned Strategies for Re-wiring Brains and Re-patterning Nervous Systems (1:07)
The first two provide a foundation for understanding the science of behavior from a brain and body perspective, including how to apply this knowledge in our work with students, so we are preparing their brains to learn.
The third and fourth dive into a deep understanding of the dynamics involved in regulation and dysregulation as we explore how to support students in developing skills and capacities to regulate independently.
The final one provides specific strategies that correspond to different states of arousal, and how to use a brain and body perspective to support students in getting back to places of learning.
Each video has enough foundational information to be viewed independently.
Thank you for joining us on the journey of growth and learning!
Happy Learning,
Judy Norman
Welcome to the first video in this series, “The Neurobiology of Preparing Brains and Bodies to Learn in the Classroom.”
Even highly skilled educators need help to be effective when students are not ready to learn. Stress and anxiety influence daily school life academically and behaviorally, as these impact processing capabilities in the brain, creating dysregulation…And dysregulation is contagious, growing from one to two students to entire classrooms. You can see the problem if what we’ve been trained to do is ignore certain behaviors.
Neuroscience can help us understand what is happening for educators and students in moments of dysregulation and help us learn to recognize when students are not in brain or body states conducive to learning. This is the first step in understanding how to prepare brains and bodies to learn by providing clues about what is needed and what support will move students back to a place of learning.
The Neurobiology of Preparing Brains and Bodies to Learn in the Classroom Learning Objectives:
- Discover how brain states and body states impact students’ learning abilities.
- Recognize how stress and anxiety show up in classrooms daily as behaviors.
- Utilize 3 questions to help identify brain and body states
Handouts: Please download and/or print the handouts below before viewing the recorded video.
Brain States
Stress Reactions Continuum
Nervous System Symptoms
The Neurobiology of Preparing Brains and Bodies to Learn in the Classroom Video
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