Stress Response
Almond shape clusters of neurons in both temporal lobes that is the brain's smoke detector
What is the amygdale?
What Pixar movie brings to life the power of emotions
The greatest time of brain development when experiences stick to the brain in the most permanent ways
What is the first 1,000 days (third trimester through two years of age)?
The two conditions that the brain and body require for development and well-being
What is safety and connection?
The two ways we can address the chronic behavioral challenges and pain based behaviors in our classrooms
What is through relationship building and co-regulation?
Seahorse structure that is responsible for short term memory emotional regulation and learning and can be damaged under stress
What is the hippocampus?
At least three things the brain needs to stay healthy
What is exercise, water, deep breaths and sleep
This is the main ingredient that develops the brain throughout life but especially in childhood and adolescence
What is experience?
A seahorse structure in our brains that holds our visual spatial and emotional memories. When we are stressed, it does not work as well.
What is the Hippocampus?
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?
One way to dampen the stress response in our classrooms
What is breathing?
Weights approximately 3 pounds and consumes 20 percent of our body's energy
What is the brain?
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?
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?
These strategies change up the routine and add novelty to awaken the brain and help it to stay focused
What are brain intervals?
This is how the brain and body communicate and work together all day long. It contains pathways that slow us down or speed us up.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)?
A seahorse structure that sits next to the amygdala and is responsible for learning and memory
What is the hippocampus?
This is the second greatest time of brain development when our brains pay attention more to novelty, peers or friends and process instructions, procedures and significant emotion through the amygdala
What is the adolescent brain?
A mental health condition that is affecting youth all over the country with a third of our students carrying this into classrooms. This has become the nation's new learning disability
What is anxiety?
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?
Longer term hormone secreted throughout brain and body when we move to an extended fight flight freeze response
What is cortisol?
Exercises that use breath, sometimes movement, that quiet the stress response
What is a focused attention practice?
When we practice a behavior, skill or feeling or thoughts over and over again, the circuits in the brain become stronger and we become automatic in our responses!
What is neuroplasticity?
The three main roles and functions of the brain in order
What are survival, emotions, and cognition?
Three specific touch points for educators and students as we strengthen relationships and build engagement
What are stories, noticing, questions, validation, identifying emotional triggers and co-regulation practices?