Center For School Success

December 2012 Newsletter

 
In This Issue
New Video Learning Tips
New Course for Students
PD Survey
CSS Winter Courses
CSS Offers Online Continuing Education Courses
CSS Degree Program Video
Brain Facts

 

Brain Finding

 

Metacognition (thinking about your own thinking) is fundamental to making successful decisions, and also fundamental to our sense of self: to knowing who we are.  

 

Recent research has shed light on where in the brain metacognition may occur and how to measure whether a person has the ability to reflect on his/her own thinking and actions.

 

Individuals with greater metacognitive ability and accuracy have been shown to have increased grey matter (the tissue containing the cell bodies of our neurons) in the very front part of their  brains. In addition, these individuals also have a  strong pathway of white-matter (which allows brain regions to communicate), in the same pre-frontal region of their brains.

        Dr. Steve Fleming     

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css starsThe Center for School Success has created 6 short (2-3 minute) video Learning Tips on topics that most impact students' school performance. There are also downloadable Learning Tip information sheets with strategies and resources included for each topic. These tips are appropriate for parents, educators, students and clinicians. 

 

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CSS Now Offering Online Course for 
High School and College-Aged Students 

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css stars CSS is offering a distinctive opportunity for students who want to maximize their ability to understand how they learn best. CSS is seeking NH or VT high school juniors/seniors and freshmen in college to pilot an online course at no cost. Students can also earn credit for the course.  

Making the Most of How You Learn Best will guide students through the process of:
  •  Exploring their own unique learning strengths and weaknesses (including health-related bridges and barriers) and understanding the scientific reason for why people learn differently;
  •  Distinguishing successes and breakdown points in their lives, to identify when and why they occur, and what to do about it;
  •  Initiating changes in their approach to tasks which support school success and life-long learning.
The knowledge students gain through this course will help them to be more adaptive so they can work smarter, not harder, across various learning situations.
 
CSS will be piloting this course with 90 local students, at no cost (January-December 2013), thanks in part to a generous grant from the Byrne Foundation and challenge matching funds. Contact CSS if you know of a student who might be interested in taking the course: Email Leslie Williamson at lesliewilliamson11@gmail.com. Once the pilot is complete, the course will be available for a fee to any interested student.

 Click here to view a promotional video of the course developed for potential students. Click here to see a partial lesson.
 
 
What CSS Professional Development

Opportunities Most Interest You? 

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css starsPlease take a short (less than five minute) online survey to help CSS better understand what professional development opportunities/topics related to learning that most interest you.  Based on your feedback we will develop online and face-to-face courses/symposiums/resources on relevant topics.

 
 

  CSS Winter Graduate Course Announced

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css starsFoundations in the Neurodevelopmental Approach to Teaching will be offered again online this winter. This is the first course in the degree program and is a pre-requisite for almost all of the other courses. CSS' degree program is offered in partnership with Plymouth State University and Southern New Hampshire's Field-based Graduate Program in Education. Participants can earn credits from either institution.
  • ND5000: Foundations in the Neurodevelopmental Approach to Teaching-ONLINE
    (12/1/12-2/28/13) -NO pre-requisite    

 

Visit the CSS website for a full listing of 2012-13 courses. 

  

PSU winter 2013 registration form  

For more information, or to register as a SNHU participant

contact CSS (603) 298-6700 to  

 

 

Link to an article that discusses why experts are calling for teaching educators about  brain science 

 
 

CSS To Offer Online
Continuing Education Courses  

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 CSS will now be offering courses and additional professional development services through the Global Classroom online learning management system. CSS is especially excited to announce its  professional development packages that will include various topics educators can explore and receive up to 10 hours towards re-certification. The first 10 hour course will be on The Impact of Attention and Memory on Learning. CSS will send out notification when it is available in January. 

 
 
 Learn More about the Neurodevelopmental Approach to Teaching Degree Program  

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CSS has produced a 5 minute video describing the Neurodeveleopmental Approch to Teaching degree program it offers in partnership with Plymouth State University, NH.

                                       Check it out!  


 
 
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 evidence-based research findings to link how the student learns best with a plan for success.

 

Phone: (603) 298-6700