How to Get the Body You Want in 90 Days:

Sometimes, once a week or so, I DO eat like a pig. The question is…”How can I get away with it?” For one, I eat great 90% of the time, so I can afford to splurge. Yes, genes do play a part. But, DNA is not your destiny.

10 Powerful Steps for Improved Learning

How to Make Your Job Easier and Give Students an Amazing Gift for a Lifetime: It’s the “Gift” of “How to Learn” Usually, we feature a column on how to be a better teacher, administrator or trainer. This month, we’ll pause for a moment and work at the other end of the process. What do […]

Brain Based Learning – A Unique Video

Lori Pickering went to a lot of work on this video explaining the 4 elements of Brain-Based Learning.. and she captures the key elements very well. Thanks Lori.

What’s it like teaching in a high-performing school?

This teacher works at an “Extreme School.” Her high school is one of many underperforming schools in this low-performing district, within a high-poverty area.

Rewarding the Brain for Great Teaching

Kimberly, a veteran teacher, has to make a big decision at the end of this school year. She’s either going to “re-up” and stay another year, or quit her job and seek another teaching job elsewhere.

A School on the Cusp

This month our featured “Extreme School” is a school like many, on the “cusp.” That means, their student population is right on the edge for qualifying for this update. Just under 50% of their students are from poverty. What this school does with their kids is amazing… THE CHALLENGES: This elementary school is in Oklahoma […]

It’s so simple it slips by most educators

it is easily the most non-predicted, surprising “Top 15 factor” for student achievement. That’s partly because it is happening everyday, all day, in your work. It’s ubiquitous.

Ten Things You Should Know About Stress

Few words are thrown around more often during the second half of the school year than “stress.” But what you’re about to find out is that… most of what you’ve heard about stress is dead wrong! For example…

Extreme Schools: There’s a lesson for all of us in this school

This month our featured school is actually several schools: The King/Chavez is a system of five schools in “Barrio Logan” in San Diego. This month is time for a reality check. If you work at a public school you may have thought, “Those charter schools have it easy; they can break all the rules!”

A lesson in ENTHUSIASM

3 year old Jonathan conducting to the 4th movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony.

What Brain Insights Can Boost Your Student’s Classroom Success?

how you can get your brain (and your students’ brains) to work better. There are countless ways we could go about this process, but since it’s the beginning of a new year, we’ll focus on what contributes to us feeling happy, smarter and even losing weight.

Over Half of all Teachers Make These 2 Mistakes.

We could focus on all the “holiday” stuff (like how to help you “navigate the holidays without adding inches to your figure”), but it’s the school year and we turn to how to affect one of the “Big Four.”

The Long Road to Success – Extreme Schools

Our featured “Extreme School” is an elementary school in St. Cloud, Minnesota. This high-poverty school had struggles for years. From 2006 – 2009 the school struggled to make annual yearly progress every year, missing in four and sometimes eight academic areas. Today, the school is different; it’s a high achieving school that does well in every single content area. The kids are the same, but the school is different.

Do you have more self-control than a chimpanzee?

One of the most important understandings you’ll ever have about your brain. In fact, for me, it’s one of the top 10 brain-based insights of all time.

Dunbar High School – Making Miracles Happen Every Day

For the first time ever in the 14-year history of school grades in Florida, this high school achieved consecutive grades of “A”.