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"Provides educators with tools they need to help students change their thinking about their abilities and potentials..."--Back cover.

Provides ten tools to help students improve executive functions such as focus, motivation, organization, self-monitoring, and more.

Examines the impact of technology on the developing brains of students and discusses teaching strategies to use digital media tools within the classroom environment.

Contains twenty strategies for engaging students in social studies and more than two hundred grade-level activities, including project-based and problem-based instruction tips, with graphic organizers, semantic maps, word webs, and internet projects.

Provides twenty brain-compatible strategies for motivating students to learn science that incorporate music, rhyme, storytelling, humor, graphic organizers, manipulatives, and other tools, and includes 250 activities.

A guide to creating brain-compatible classrooms that explains how teachers can use these strategies to build a classroom environment that helps the brain function at its best.

All parents want their children to be successful in school, sports, and extracurricular activities. But it's not just giving your kids praise or setting them in the right direction. Research shows that success is often dependent on mindset. Hard work, perseverance, and effort are all hallmarks of a growth mindset.

"An education researcher maps out the new science of learning, showing how simple techniques like comprehension check-ins and making material personally relatable can help people gain expertise in dramatically better ways than simple rote memorization"--OCLC.