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Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections http://www.learner.org/resources/series214.html

http://www.learner.org/resources/series214.html

ISBN: 1-57680-894-7

"Exciting developments in the field of neuroscience are leading to a new understanding of how the brain works that is beginning to transform teaching in the classroom. Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections brings together researchers and educators in a dialog about how insights into brain function can be harnessed by teachers for use in their own classrooms to address their own particular challenges. Course components include 42 video segments interwoven with an online text and other useful resources on a comprehensive Web site. The Web also includes interactive simulations of neuroscience research tools, glossary, and course guide for teachers to use all the materials for sustained professional development. "

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 

Fischer Helps Create Videos on Learning and the Brain

"Professor Kurt Fischer worked with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to create 42 brief videos on learning, teaching, and the brain. Featured in several, Fischer is joined by HGSE alumni and other notable scientists in the videos, which range in topics from the history of neuroscience to personal accounts of autism.

“We had an opportunity to work with a dozen media specialists to create the videos and the result is [a set] really useful tools for high school and college courses on the brain,” Fischer says.

Fischer and a group of other educational neuroscientists spent a year working with the Science Media Group at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Brain and Creativity Institute and Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California on the project."

 

http://www.oprah.com/relationships/The-End-of-Empty-Nest-Syndrome

http://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/empty-nest-syndrome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_nest_syndrome

 

Email To The President 2011 & Old 2009

Dear Mr. President,
Today I still volunteer in my sons school two days a week for a total of 4-6 hours.  When you Mr. President sent the message to the people to volunteer in their children's classroom it worked.  I saw double the number of parents on campus.  My hope is that you will do this again.  Due to the very small number of parents volunteering.  Mr. President you make a difference and here in San Diego California you are still very supported.Here is my email from September 11, 2009:
***I am writing you today in hopes of gaining your support in my desire to create a movement of parents volunteering in the classroom’s kindergarten through twelfth grade as well as on the school campus.  I am a parent to two boys here in San Diego California.  I actively volunteer in my boys schools in the classroom and on the school campus.  I have seen the positive difference in effectively volunteering.
 My desire is to inspire parents to make time in there busy schedules to volunteer at a minimum of two hours a week in their child’s classroom/rooms and on the school campus in other ways as well.  I am a true believer in the positive effects that parents can have in public schools if they volunteer effectively.  Thus, I mean that during the time a parent spends in their child’s classroom they spend the time helping the teacher do more, create more and accomplish more, that the time a parent volunteers on the school campus they are able to be an effective aide to the principal in performing tasks that are also beneficial to other teachers whom are not directly related to their child. 
My request to you is to help me develop a letter to parents stating the importance of volunteering as well as a letter to the employers of these parents stating the importance of allowing time off to volunteer. 
I am also requesting support in making campaign material in which to use and legitimize my vision quest one that I can use to contact principals to create a method of effectively using parent support.
My heart is with the children and for a future where all teachers are able to create excellence in their classroom by assisting them to achieve there altruistic desire to teach children. 
Sincerely,
Dena Austin Miller

The Rainbow-a poem

The Rainbow

In a world that makes it hard to breath

Each breathe I take reminds me

To Live

Unconditionally

To Trust

When it hurts

To give

When I have nothing

For the Rainbow

While it may be an illusion

And the Gold never seen

I run toward the end

With Belief

In all good things

Even if I never receive

Personally

The pot of Gold

To keep

-Dena Austin Miller

 

Assess Your Childs Elementary School, Junior & Seinor High School

How to Assess Your Childs Elementary School & (scroll down) Your Childs Junior or Seinor High

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Thinking and researching Holistic Teaching Methods. Here is a site I appreciate:

http://www.uwsp.edu/education/lwilson/curric/HOLOBJ.HTM

Broken Down Teaching

I have much to learn. 

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