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 ...

Hurson presents an outstanding and effective means of thinking through the process of creation or revision. Anyone looking for a successful approach to moving from idea to action will benefit from Hurson's instruction and insights. Informative and practical!

The Jossey-Bass Reader onthe Brain and Learning The potentials of brain science for education are indeed enormous. But realizing them requires building a new interdisciplinary science that explicitly links brain science and education . . . educators need to know about brain science, and scientists need to know about education. --Kurt Fischer and Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, from the Introduction Thi ...

Though a few years have passed since its publication, I still consider this to be one of the best books on learning ever produced. The detailed analysis of expert knowledge and its numerous implications for instruction make this must-reading for educators.