Brains, the Common Core & Leadership
I am participating this weekend in a conference on Learning and the Brain. Actually multi-tasking with my iPad as I listen to lectures that tell us that the human brain was not designed for sitting hours on end to absorb information. We were designed of course to be active hunters and gathers, outside, interacting with our environment. Interesting. Conclusion: schools and classrooms are not the ideal environment for learning. Each day we are discovering more and more informat