Let’s take a look at some of the most common neuromyths that help shape educational thinking. Myth 1: Students are either ...

The School District of La Crosse is expanding mental health training for educators after receiving $65,000 in grant funding ...

“Brain-based learning” is everywhere. From TED Talks to professional development workshops, educators are told that neuroscience holds the key to unlocking student potential. We hear about prefrontal ...

In his book, The Talent Code (2009), Daniel Coyle describes how Carol Dweck, in her ongoing effort to find ways to enhance student academic performance and to also hopefully advance higher levels of ...

Princeton researchers found that the brain excels at learning because it reuses modular “cognitive blocks” across many tasks. Monkeys switching between visual categorization challenges revealed that ...

Teachers’ beliefs matter for student learning—but myths about the brain can be easily spread and hard to dislodge. The vast majority of active and future teachers—and even more of the general public ...