RESEARCH & CONSULTING
How student social interactions affects the brain
Using the latest brain research on how social interaction affects the brain in classroom teaching.
Encoding, maintaining, and retrieving learning
Improving students' ability to encode, maintain, and retrieve learning. Cognitive development and how stress impedes learning Orientation to the brain and how stress impedes learning.
The critical link between movement and cognition
The brain and its various systems and how movement affects learning and the brain. Educational influence on students' brains Motivation, critical thinking skills, environmental factors, the "social brain," emotions, and memory and recall.
Project-Based Learning for Gifted Students
Student choice, teacher responsibility, and opportunities for differentiation. Finding the right structure, and creating a practical classroom environment for gifted and talented students.
Coordinating, implementing, and evaluating programs for teaching reading
Evolving standards, enacting standards, professional development, mentorship and assessment.
Neuro-based program applications
Identifying what information could and should apply in classrooms with confidence, and what information is simply commercial hype.
Prevent, diagnose, treat and ameliorate mathematical difficulties
Behavioral, educational and neuropsychological characteristics of people with mathematical difficulties, and development of educational interventions.
The Read-Aloud Science Classroom
This explores the effects of a read-aloud strategy on children’s acquisition of vocabulary words and development of comprehension skills, through discussing story events and writing freely about each story. The strategy involves reading text aloud to students, explaining unfamiliar words, summarizing text, and leading them into thoughtful discussions around the text.
Adventure Learning Action Research Project
This is a hybrid distance education approach that provides students with opportunities to explore real world issues through authentic learning experiences within collaborative learning environments.
Vocabulary acquisition through shared reading experiences
This is a research investigation on how a single reading of a storybook between an adult and a child can produce growth in the vocabulary of the child and if conversations during reading have an impact on learning new vocabulary.
Emphasizing hands-on applications of cognitive principles to public policy
Intention of promoting a reciprocal integration of research with practice in educational policies.