Washington State’s League of Education Voters (LEV) produced this video about Lincoln High School, the alternative school in Walla Walla, WA, that took a different approach to school discipline and reduced its suspension rate by more than 85% percent over two years. LEV, founded in 2001 by parents, students,
Daily Archives: June 27, 2012
Making sure that air traffic controller in our brains keeps us from crashing in life
How’s your brain’s air traffic controller doing? Directing too many close calls? Or managing without breaking a sweat? This video, part of the InBrief series from Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child, explains how this air traffic controller — known to brain and development experts as “executive functioning” — emerges and thrives. And what can get in the way of its healthy growth.
Acquiring the early building blocks of these skills
