The document discusses the principles of brain-based education, highlighting how brain function can be enhanced through exercise, nutrition, and positive social environments. It emphasizes the negative impact of chronic stress on brain health and learning, while also noting the potential benefits of arts and exercise on cognitive abilities. Additionally, it suggests that environmental factors and new therapies can influence brain health and rehabilitation.

1. Brain Based Education : Implications for the classroom Lesson based on: Jensen, E. P. (2008). A Fresh Look at Brain Based Education. Retrieved 04 03, 2010, from Phi Delta Kappan: http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k_v89/k0802jen.htm

2. Human brain can grow neurons Process regulated by everyday activities Can be enhanced by exercise, low level of stress, good nutrition

3. Social conditions can influence brain Become more active in managing social environment Don’t rely on random groups…strengthen prosocial conditions Groups offer reward, acceptance, pleasure, coherence, stress free

4. Brain can rewire & remap due to plasticity Enhance through skill-building, reading, meditation, the arts, career and technical education, and thinking skills

5. Chronic stress is bad for the brain Repeated stress results in a state of “allostasis”, an adjusted new baseline for stress Stress affects health, learning and behavior

6. Genes can respond to environment Everyday behaviors can influence gene expression

7. Good nutrition feeds the brain What we eat affects memory, attention, stress and even intelligence

8. Arts may have role in brain based learning Although jury is still out, arts may have developmentally sensitive period of the arts

9. Exercise is medicine for the brain Exercise strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell production.

10. Strides in brain rehabilitation studies Aggressive behavioral therapies, new drugs, and stem cell implantation can be used to influence, regulate, and repair brain-based disorders.

11. Environments alter our brain Increasing neuroscience research to understand human responses to the built environment.