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Teaching and Learning with the Heart and Brain in Mind

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This approach brings neuroscience-informed practices to enhance both teaching and learning. I help schools foster brain-friendly, emotionally supportive environments where learners and educators thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. By focusing on the well-being of both educators and learners, we can create positive, lasting outcomes in the classroom and beyond.
 

Here are some possible outcomes: 
 

  • Learn about strategies and tools to create safe learning environments that are brain-friendly, and enhance emotional literacy and relationships

  • Learn simple metaphors, tools, and models to talk about the brain and how we can use this knowledge to impact learning and behaviour with students

  • Learn about well-being strategies for staff and students in the classroom and school- starting with belonging, emotional literacy, and focusing on positive and protective relationships

  • Identify personal and professional protective factors for your wellbeing

  • Develop a plan to improve individual, team, and/or school wellbeing 

Why Neuroscience and Emotional Literacy?

Many ancient cultures considered that brain, heart and body were connected. When what we now call science came to inform our beliefs this changed and we started to treat brain, heart and body as separate entities that simply worked together to keep us alive. We now know better. The evidence has been available to us for over 25 years, and we can’t afford to ignore it. We now have more information to help inform our practice. Our heart is intelligent. Our body, brain and mind are connected. We can’t just teach the heads in front of us, we need to reach their hearts. And moreso, we need to help our students learn to connect their own body, brain and heart. Emotional intelligence and emotional literacy is the vehicle for this.

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