Brain Fact
The primary functions of the brain's frontal lobe are planning, coordinating, controlling, and executing behavior. The nerve pathways in the frontal lobes are the last to mature and don't become fully developed until well into adulthood (25-30 years old).
Nature Neuroscience,
1999
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December Learning Tip
Students' efficiency and accuracy can be enhanced when they take time to plan tasks by considering, selecting, and working at an appropriate pace from the beginning of a task to the end.
Yet many students have trouble planning and pacing their work. These students tend to perform tasks either too slowly or too quickly; they lack an appreciation of the fact that strategies and actions usually occur in a step-wise manner over time, rather than all at once.
Read strategies related to this tip.
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CSS To Consult On NIH Grant
 CSS 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 Clinician Training Set For May 2010
CSS will be offering Rx for School Success: Adapting a pragmatic approach to managing variations in learning across disciplines in May 2010.
The training will provide health care professionals (school nurses, psychologists, pediatricians, family physicians)
with an innovative framework allowing them to link their medical expertise with a neurodevelopmental approach to learning. The training will help health care professionals recognize and understand the effects of common school related-problems, which will lead to their becoming better and more efficient screeners. |
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CSS Set To Design More Graduate Courses
CSS 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 (many of which will be available on line). |
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CSS Winter and Spring Courses Announced
CSS will be offering Teaching With Talent, Knowledge and Skill (ND5010) in February (no pre-requisite). Click here for a complete 2009-2010 course schedule.
Visit www.centerforschoolsuccess.org for more information as well as course descriptions onThe Neurodevelopmental Approach to Teaching Masters and CAGS program CSS offers through a partnership with Plymouth State University. |
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Upper Valley@ Work Year 3 Profiles Begin
Year 3 of the Upper Valley @ Work profiles have begun. This month meet Dan Kelman, flight instructor. 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. | |
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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 | |
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