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In this activity from Energizing Brain Breaks, each student moves a piece of paper around his/her waist without grabbing it. (K-12)

In this activity from Energizing Brain Breaks, one partner twists another partner's arms so that his/her brain really has to think to decide what finger to move.

This lesson from The Education Revolution is designed to help teachers introduce the concept of mental shift in a manner that increases student participation. 

Excerpted from The Education Revolution, this lesson groups brain-based learning strategies for increasing the rate of recall and retention more efficiently. 

The SEL Skill Trajectory from The Other Side of the Report Card details social-emotional learning (SEL) skill categories and subcategories, and the specific observational behaviors that compose each across the developmental trajectory. (K-12)

This complimentary excerpt from Leading for Change Through Whole-School Social-Emotional Learning by Jennifer Rogers shines a light on some of the currently most relevant studies about social-emotional learning that you can discuss with stakeholders.

This bookmark from The Executive Function Guidebook by Roberta Strosnider and Valerie Sharpe includes questions to be asked about learning and questions to be asked about self-regulation.

This lesson from Learning Challenge Lessons, Secondary English Language Arts will enhance your students’ knowledge and understanding of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, with focuses on characterisation, responsibility and developments in science.

Use these strategies from Developing Expert Learners to present misconceptions, paradoxes, metaphors, and different models to evoke dissonance in your students and test and challenge their prior knowledge.

Use this checklist from Developing Expert Learners to determine whether your teachers are developing expert learners and whether your students are displaying the characteristics of expert learners.

 In this webinar, Michael McDowell, author of Developing Expert Learners, discusses practices that strategically support students as they move from novices to experts in core academics. 

This cutting-edge webinar with Julie Stern and Nathalie Lauriault, authors of Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, will help you to promote depth and breadth of understanding by using learning transfer as both a means and an end goal of learning.