Stress Response
Brain Talk
Brain Development
Trauma and Adversity of the Brain Brain
Engagement and Behavioral Strategies
100

Almond shape clusters of neurons in both temporal lobes that is the brain's smoke detector

What is the amygdale

100

A recent kids movie that deals with different parts of the brain

What is Inside Out

100

The greatest time of brain development when experiences stick to the brain in the most permanent ways!

Approximately the first 1,000 days  (Second trimester through two years of age?) 

100

The two conditions that the brain and body require for development and well-being? 

What is safety and connection

100

The two ways with which we address the chronic behavioral challenges and pain based behaviors in our classrooms?

What is relationship and regulation?

200

Seahorse structure that is responsible for short term memory emotional regulation and learning and can be damaged under stress

What is the hippocampus

200

At least three things the brain needs to stay healthy

What is exercise, water, deep breaths and sleep 

200
This is the main ingredient that develops the brain throughout life but especially in childhood and adolescence?
What is experience?
200

Behaviors that look oppositional defiant, shut down or unmotivated are often defined as: 

What is Pain Based Behavior?

200

The framework of Applied Educational Neuroscience is based on what four pillars

What is : Educator brain and Body State, Co-regulation, Touch Points and Teaching Neuroanatomy to our students and staff 

300

one way to dampen the stress response in our classrooms

What is breathing

300

weights approximately  3 pounds and consumes 20 percent of our body's energy

WHat is the brain?

300

The last part of the brain to develop and holds the functions of emotional regulation, sustained attention and working memory among others

What is the Prefrontal Cortex?

300

The largest public health study conducted 30 plus years ago that has informed us of the long term emotional, mental and physical health outcomes when chronic unpredictable stress is a part of our lives

WHat is the ACE study?

300

These strategies change up the routine and add novelty to awaken the brain and help it to stay focused

What are brain intervals?

400

The stress response system in our bodies that develops through childhood and adolescence just like the brain and can be damaged or reprogram how we experience stress for a lifetime

What is the HPA axis

400
seahorse structure that sits next to the amygdala and is responsible for learning and memory
What is the hippocampus?
400

Processes instructions, procedures and significant emotion, and memories through the amygdala

What is the adolescent brain?

400

A mental health condition that is affecting youth all over the country with a third of our students carrying this into classrooms- has become the nation's new learning disability

What is anxiety

400

The practices that are a part of our routines that dampen down the stress response systems and build sustained attention? 

What is Focused Attention Practice?  

500

Longer term hormone secreted throughout brain and body when we move to an extended  fight flight freeze response

What is cortisol?

500
Exercises that use breath, sometimes movement, that quiet the stress response
What is a focused attention practice?
500

An Adverse Childhood Experience that provides the directions and instructions for development and when it is missing this has significant consequences in development.

What is neglect

500

Three main roles and functions of the brain in order

WHat is : Survival Emotions Cognition

500

Three specific touch points for educators and students as we strengthen relationships and build engagement.

What are stories, noticing, questions, dual brain sheet, take your order, validation, identifying emotional triggers and regulation practices? 

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