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NOW AVAILABLE

Middle School Student
Leader Breakfast
Summary Notes
April 25, 2012

Spring Rep Forum Notes
Speaker : Andrea McCarren
of WUSA-9
April 18, 2012

Best Practices
Summary Notes and
Encouraging Kindness
In Our Schools:
Best Practices E-Binder
(Download)
March 1, 2012

Notes from Student
Leader Breakfast
February 8, 2012

Notes from Winter Forum
"Conducting A Webinar at Your School"
January 11, 2012

Notes from
"Raising Successful Learners"
November 2, 2011

Fall Orientation Session Notes
October 4, 2011

Thoughts From a Head

Neuroscience Is Informing and Changing Education

Katherine Schantz

The Lab School of Washington

One of the greatest challenges for a head of school is to anticipate which of the advances in neuroscience, technology, psychology and cognitive sciences will transform the way we structure our schools, train our teachers, and educate our students. Embedded in a society that is absorbing the impact of tremendous advances in these fields, we are constantly reassessing our beliefs about learning. In the last few years, two closely related principles have dominated my thinking about how to create schools that truly foster our students’ potential for learning: our brain