Teaching to Every Kid's Potential: Simple Neuroscience Lessons to Liberate Learners

“Teachers hold the potential to provide a student with frustration or opportunity every day—and those states are closer together than you might think.”

When students repeatedly lose track of directions or take a long time to solve problems, it’s easy for teachers to see the distracted or off-task behavior, but not always to see the root of the problem. Quite often the same child who has an underdeveloped skill may have an opposing but hidden strength: a slow processor of information may also...