Crying kids can’t learn to spell: how to attend to the socio-emotional needs of your students and still teach everything else
These days, teachers need to teach so much, but research tells us stress decreases the brain’s receptiveness to learning. How does a busy teacher fit in support of a student’s emotional life and still meet all the academic demands? This presentation explores the science of stress and of attachment teaching and will provide a framework and practical lessons to integrate socio-emotional attunement with academic goals.