Exercise is often cited as a remedy to stress, but did you know that exercise can actually improve your brain! From the development of new neurons to the balancing of neurotransmitters, exercise holds vast benefits for mental functioning. Schools that have adopted new approaches to physical education based on these scientific findings are seeing student achievement in academic areas skyrocket. An ...

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Written for teachers, educational leaders, and instructional designers, this guide presents tools for developing teaching that engages the student thinking needed to construct learning. The author presents both the research from neuroscience and cognitive psychology and the tools for instructional design and assessment through examples from a wide array of grade levels and subject matter. PUBL ...