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 Hands On
How to Use Brain Gym in the Classroom
Isabel Cohen & Marcelle Goldsmith (All Grades)
Get the most out of Brain Gym in your class. This book picks up where the original classic Brain Gym ends—in the classroom. Hands On gives the teacher practical, visual, step-by-step ideas to implement Brain Gym movements while teaching reading, handwriting, spelling, and math. Photos of children demonstrating the Brain Gym movements are clear, instructive and inspirational. A must for every teacher who uses Brain Gym in the classroom! 104 pages. DCGHO • $40 |
Brain Gym & Brain Gym Teacher’s Edition
Paul Dennison & Gail Dennison (All Grades)
Brain Gym has become a classic. If you are not already using Brain Gym, you're in for a treat. Brain Gym is a series of simple and enjoyable movements designed to enhance whole-brain learning. The basic idea is that the Cross Crawl, Footflex, Grounder and other exercises and postures work out the brain and improve learning. Midline movements improve integration of our two-sided brain. Lengthening activities help students make connections between the front and back of the brain. Energy exercises and deepening attitudes enhance brain-body relations. Plus, there's a section with exercises for oral reading, reading comprehension, organization skills, spelling, math, creative writing and more. Send those brains to the gym.
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 Brain Gym
Simple, illustrated guide.
40 pages. DDBG • $13
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 Brain Gym
Teacher’s Edition
Companion guide for teachers. 45 pages.
DDBT • $30
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 Brain Compatible Strategies
Eric Jensen (All Grades)
This exciting new book from best-selling author Eric Jensen will get you excited about teaching, all over again! Contains a virtual gold mine of creative, ready-to-use ideas to motivate, instigate, and encourage your students. No matter what the age or level of ability. Based on the latest in brain research, this is powerful information that will change the way you view education, and the way you teach. 103 pages. DBCS • $25 |
 How the Brain Learns
David Sousa (All Grades)
This best seller on brain research and education enters the 21st century with a valuable updated second edition. The new edition includes the latest discoveries in neuroscience and learning. Loaded with basic brain facts, insights on how the brain processes information, exciting research on motor skills, tips on maximizing retention using "down time," and information to help translate research on brain function into practical classroom activities and lessons. 328 pages. DSHBL • $45 |
 Tools for Engagement
Managing Emotional States for Learner Success
Eric Jensen (All Grades)
Your students' moods, energy levels and emotional states are constantly changing. These factors are directly tied to their day-to-day behaviors and ultimately their success. In this book, Eric Jensen gives you the power to transform any group of learners. He leads you through the rules that control the way students behave, think, feel and learn. You'll discover how to trigger desired states in students of all ages with more than 150 activities that arouse curiosity, promote accountability, enhance understanding and retention and instill pride and ownership in learning. Each color-coded chapter reveals research-based techniques to guide and influence your students' behavior patterns. You'll be amazed at how productive and fun your classes will be. And, your confidence as an
instructor will soar with these powerful, state-changing tools. 216 pages. DJTE • $39 |
 Psychology For Kids
Book and CD-Rom
40 Fun Quizzes that Help You Learn About Yourself
Jonni Kincher (Grades 3-12)
Are you an extrovert or an introvert? An optimist or a pessimist? Can you predict the future? Are you creative? Left-brained or right-brained? What body language do you speak? Do you have ESP? Based on sound psychological concepts, these 40 fascinating tests help kids explore their interests and abilities, find out why they act the way they do, and discover what makes them unique. 144 pages. DKPK • $22 |
 Feed Your Brain for Learning
Sandy Baumann (All Grades)
What are the best and worst beverages for the brain? What kinds of meals make students sleepy and irritable? Which fats increase reward for learning, improve calmness, and reduce the risk for ADD? Learn about the connection between food, brain performance, and academic achievement. Brain nutrition principles also help protect students against childhood obesity. This book offers great strategies for school wellness committees. 108 pages. DBFYB • $16 |
 Mapping the Mind
Rita Carter (All Grades)
This is your visual guide to the brain. With revealing scans of the latest imaging techniques, this book unlocks the mysteries and secrets of the human brain. The book charts the map of the mind—thoughts, moods, emotions, memories, eccentricities, disorders—and provides insightful explanations of the spectacular images of the inner mechanisms of the brain. You will see brains literally light up with different types of behaviors. The discoveries of the finest scientists are made comprehensible. If you want to know what's going on inside the heads of your students and yourself, there's no better map of the mind. 224 pages. DCMM • $30 |
 Begin With the Brain
Orchestrating the Learner-Centered Classroom
Martha Kaufeldt (All Grades)
Understand and apply current findings in neuroscience research to all aspects of classroom practice, from behavior management to curriculum design. Using what we know about how the brain learns optimally, this ready-to-go resource provides practical guidance to new and experienced teachers on how to create a learner-centered classroom, including: setting up a classroom, establishing routines and procedures, fostering students' intellectual curiosity, and building a classroom community. 256 pages. DKBB • $40 |
 Different Brains, Different Learners
How to Reach the Hard to Reach
Eric Jensen (All Grades)
Nearly 40% of all students have some kind of learning impairment, yet many go undetected. This colorful, comprehensive guide links the latest brain research with teaching strategies for hard-to-reach learners. Packed with powerful tools, techniques, and strategies proven to help students improve brain function without resorting to Ritalin or other medical interventions. Jensen presents a succinct overview of the key factors that prevent students from achieving, as well as a concise outline for identifying the symptoms and causes of prevalent impairments, such as oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit, dyslexia, hyperactivity, depression, auditory processing deficits, delayed sleep disorder. Understand and overcome learning difficulties. 210 pages. DJDB • $35 |
 Brain-Based Learning
The New Paradigm for Teaching
Eric Jensen (All Grades)
Convert recent brain research into powerful classroom success strategies. Boost intrinsic motivation, interest in subjects, and liking for school. Make connections for students, increase attention, understanding, meaning, recall, and application. Packed with practical hints and strategies, this book includes chapters on brain research, preparing the learner, the learning climate, getting and keeping attention, better thinking strategies, memory and recall, threats and rewards, discipline, motivation, assessment, and lesson planning. 288 pages. DJBL • $40 |
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