Chapter 1
_________ learners can NOT do complex, school-oriented learning tasks without continuous support.
What are dependent learners?
These are special nerves in the brain that are considered the brain's building blocks.
What are neurons?
Generally defined as a sympathetic connection with another person that results in a warm, friendly feeling you experience when you are in sync.
What is rapport?
The two types of learning mindsets.
What are fixed mindset and growth mindset?
One of the culturally oriented techniques to cue the brain to pay attention.
What is (1) call and response (2) music (3) provocations or (4) talk?
Another name for fluid intelligence or intellective competence.
What is intellective capacity?
This part of the brain houses the memory system (including short-term memory, working memory, and long-term memory)
What is the hippocampus?
One of the five ways to generate trust with students.
What is (1) selective vulnerability (2) familiarity (3) similarity of interests (4) concern or (5) competence?
Phenomenon when the brain remembers and responds to negative experiences up to three times more than positive experiences.
What is negativity bias?
A broad term applied to performance-style poetry that mixes social awareness, music, and language that helps students with active processing.
What is spoken word?
One of the four practice areas of culturally responsive teaching.
What is (1) Awareness (2) Learning Partnerships (3) Information Processing or (4) Community Building?
Subtle, everyday verbal and nonverbal slights, snubs, or insults which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to people of color based solely on their marginalized group membership.
What are microaggressions?
Special brain cells that prompt us to mimic others.
What are mirror neurons?
One form of microaggression that can show up in schools.
What is (1) microassaults (2) microinsults or (3) microinvalidations?
How many hours we have to revisit, review, and apply what we have learned in order to make it permanent and move it to long-term memory.
What is 24-48 hours?
The term for a set of seemingly unconnected school policies and teacher decisions that result in students of color not getting adequate literacy and content while being disproportionately disciplined for "defiance."
What is the school-to-prison-pipeline?
Short, finger-like extensions containing receptors that extend out beyond the body of the neuron to pick up messages from other neurons.
What are dendrites?
The final part of a learning partnership that results from the combination of rapport and alliance.
What is cognitive insight?
Sense of mastery as a learner, belief in ability to control our external world, belief in our ability to achieve where we put our energy, and our explanatory story about why we are/are not competent learners are the four components of the _________ _________.
What is the academic mindset?
Name the four macro level instructional strategies that help build intellective capacity.
What are ignite, chunk, chew, and review?
One of the most powerful tools for helping students out of the achievement gap.
What is Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT)?
Part of the brain responsible for alertness and attention.
What is Reticular Activating System (RAS)?
The research-reported percentage if communication that is nonverbal.
What is 70%?
The strategy to interrupt negative self-talk in students by having them write down some of the negative statements they make in class and refute them based on evidence.
What is the Back Talk strategy?
WITHOUT practice, you only remember ___% of what you just learned after 24 hours.
What is 30 percent?