Guide for peer tutors
This book is a valuable and comprehensive resource to use as part of peer tutor training or as background reading for the trainer. Topics covered range from the science of learning to exploring the role and theoretical foundations of peer tutoring and learning centers.
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations
Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential.
Culturally responsive teaching & the brain: Promoting authentic engagement and rigor among culturally and linguistically diverse students
Culturally responsive pedagogy has shown great promise in meeting this need, but many educators still struggle with its implementation. In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction.
Change Your Questions, Change Your Life
Author: Marilee Adams “Marilee Adams describes how questions shape our thinking and how personal and organizational problems can often be traced to the kinds of questions we ask. Drawing on decades of research and experience as a coach and consultant, Adams uses a highly instructive and entertaining story that illustrates how to quickly recognize any […]
Brain School: Stories of Children with Learning Disabilities and Attention Disorders Who Changed Their Lives by Improving Their Cognitive Functioning
In Brain School, Howard Eaton explores how, applying the principles of neuroplasticitiy, Barbara Arrowsmith Young developed cognitive remediation exercises, founded the Arrowsmith Program and opened the first Arrowsmith School in Toronto, Ontario over 30 years ago.
Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being
Resilience is our innate capacity to face and handle life’s challenges. Bouncing Back integrates brain science, relational psychology and mindfulness to help you change and develop new ways to respond to pressures and tragedies quickly, adaptively, and effectively.
Bandwidth for schools: Helping Pre-k-12 students reclaim cognitive resources lost to poverty, trauma, racism, and social marginalization
This book makes the case that societal realities–such as poverty, racism, and social marginalization–result in depleted cognitive resources for students and for those who are trying to help them succeed.
A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a new career. A Mind for Numbers offers the tools to better grasp intimidating material.
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain: How I Left My Learning Disability Behind and Other Stories of Cognitive Transformation
Author: Barbara Arrowsmith-Young Arrowsmith-Young is the creator of one of the first practical applications of the principles of neuroplasticity to the treatment of learning disorders. Her program is implemented in 54 schools internationally. View Book
The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good For You, and How to Get Good At It
Author: Kelly McGonigal Stanford psychologist Kelly McGonigal, PhD, discusses research on how stress can make us stronger, smarter, and happier—if we learn how to embrace it. View Book
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee McGhee offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color. View Book
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
Author: Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett Groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality–not greater wealth–is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it. View Book