Center For School Success

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This month's learning tip
CSS to consult on NIH grant
CSS set to design more courses
CSS awarded NHCF grant
UV@Work profiles begin
CSS winter/spring courses announced
Brain FactsBrain Fact
 
Seratonin is a chemical in the body that transmits "feel good" impulses between nerve cells in the brain. Serotonin plays an important role in memory and learning.
 
When a person has a positive learning experience it "feels good," and serotonin is released. If the person continues to experience positive outcomes from a specific action, serotonin has been found to be released at the mere thought of that previous experience. 
              Kandel, 1994
 

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This Month's Learning Tip
Successful learning is fun. It makes you feel good about the subject you are learning. More importantly, it makes you feel good about yourself. Successful learners tend to take more risks, because they have a higher level of confidence in their abilities.
 
Conversely, students who continually struggle to learn new information can become disengaged or act out at home/ school.  One of the keys to motivating struggling students is to nurture in them a belief that successful learning can actually happen.
 
It is useful to provide struggling learners with authentic opportunities to help make connections between what they are working on and prior knowledge/experience. It can also help to draw a connection between students' efforts and the expected results. Read Strategies Related to This Tip.
 
 
Pediatric PROMIS To Consult On NIH Grant
css starsCSS will be working with researchers from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) who have received a 3 year multii-million dollar National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant. CSS' role will be to connect CHOP researchers to NH/VT schools for the purpose of surveying school-age childrens' perception of their health and well-being. CSS will also contribute some of the survey questions based on its work regarding students' learning experiences, strategy use and self-efficacy. It's an exciting opportunity to be part of a national project that can have some meaningful outcomes regarding the relationships between health and school performance. Read more.
 
 
CSS Set To Design More Graduate Courses
css starsCSS is partnering with a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education to design undergraduate, graduate and clinician courses related to mind, brain, health and education for universities in the US and abroad. More information will be shared as courses are developed.
 
 
CSS Awarded Grant for Student Support Teams That WORK Training
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CSS was awarded a grant from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation- North Country region to support its Student Support Teams that WORK program in New Hampshire's "north country" schools. Read more about this program.
 
 
 
 Upper Valley@ Work Year 3 Profiles Begin
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Year 3 of the Upper Valley @ Work profiles begin with Zoe Courville, Polar Explorer. Upper Valley @ Work is a profile series highlighting local residents who use their unique strengths to better their lives and communities. The Upper Valley at Work campaign is intended to help give young people a sense  of the options they may have to find meaningful employment in the Upper Valley area. The project is a collaboration with these partner organizations that are working together to strengthen our region. Upper Valley at  Work partners are: Center for School Success, Upper Valley and Business  Education Partnership, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation-Upper Valley Region, Upper Valley United Way and  Vermont Community Foundation  The profile series is  published monthly in the Valley News and is available on the web. Learn more.
 
 
 CSS Winter and Spring Courses Announced
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CSS will be offering Foundations in Neurodevelopment Theory (ND5000) in December (no pre-requisites) & Teaching With Talent, Knowledge and Skill (ND5010) in February (no pre-requisites). Read more for other course listings and schedules

 
 
About the Center for School Success
 
The Center for School Success, located in West Lebanon, NH, is a non-profit organization that helps struggling students achieve measurable success in school and in life. CSS offers learning assessments (grade 2-college), professional development and outreach services. CSS services help students, their parents and teachers apply recent brain-based research findings to link how the student learns best with a plan for success.
 
Phone: (603) 298-6700