Index
academic outcomes 10, 31, 38, 40, 83, 112, 120, 142, 176, 185, 191
Acetylcholinesterase 92
action potential 104
adaptive expertise 33
adaptive experts 125
aggression 3, 52, 54, 86, 177, 201
alternative high school 35
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 13
amygdala hijack 3, 30, 35, 36, 38, 45, 51, 52, 53, 55, 60, 61, 62, 72, 76, 86, 134, 145, 150, 160, 176, 186, 187, 196
anxiety 3, 109, 113, 142, 174, 192, 193, 204, 206
Aristotle’s Lyceum 191
artificial intelligence 59, 75, 78, 168
association 31
attention 3, 14, 17, 22, 26, 38, 39, 44, 45, 51, 150, 157, 159, 160, 163
autism 176
automaticity 71, 88, 105, 163, 204, 207
autonomic nervous system 30, 67, 72, 108, 118, 122, 170, 176, 186, 188, 208
autonomy 1, 6, 17, 18, 71, 72, 139, 142, 145, 146, 187, 194, 209
bilateral coordination 146
blended 191
body language 38, 97, 120, 189
Bracey Report 40
brain breaks 5, 48, 51, 52, 54, 55
Brookings 170
Bush, George W. 185
cerebellum 15, 55, 88, 162, 214, 227
Child Trauma Academy 177
Chomsky, N. 20, 75, 76, 84, 85, 168, 221, 224
circuits 15, 32, 51, 140, 146, 212
classroom management 22, 36, 42, 75, 154, 179, 182
co-create 55, 68, 72, 97, 115, 194, 195
cognitive load 60, 61, 63, 71, 78, 82, 143, 145, 158, 160, 162, 163, 170, 186, 187, 225
cognitive overload 3, 59, 60, 76, 82, 150, 170
cognitive psychology 29, 33, 75, 202
cognitive rehearsal 14, 24, 32, 76, 79, 86, 99, 105, 107, 113, 122, 130, 133, 141, 143, 158, 169, 178
cognitive revolution 75
cognitivist 24
Comenius’ Pansophism 191
Common Core State Standards 183
compliant 19
conceptual change 197
conceptual collisions 18
conveyor belt 126
Corona virus see pandemic
covert curriculum 193
Cowan, N. 62, 76, 77, 79, 81, 82, 204, 211, 223
cross the midline 15
dandelion 67, 69, 118, 122, 175
decade of the brain 199
dendrites 4, 92, 93, 140, 203, 205, 207, 213, 215
Diamond, Marion 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 98, 169, 224, 226
Diffusion Tensor Imaging 30
discipline 14, 24, 37, 39, 40, 150, 158
disequilibrium 197
disruptive students 1, 2, 3, 22, 34, 37, 38, 43, 158, 159
dopamine 9, 19, 52, 54, 64, 70, 195, 197, 212
downstream 158
drop out 193
Ebbinghaus’ Forgetting Curve see forgetting
efficiency 126, 128, 216, 221, 224
effort 2, 24, 26, 30, 32, 72, 81, 119, 120, 121, 122, 139, 141, 159, 197, 207
Eisenhower, Dwight 185
emotions 4, 29, 30, 31, 32, 48, 49, 55, 88, 151, 182, 201, 203, 206, 208, 210, 211, 221
equanimity 155
equity 155
Every Student Succeeds Act 183
executive function impairments 159
exercise 9, 13, 14, 59, 146, 150, 159, 164, 197, 203, 206
expertise 5, 14, 15, 17, 71, 125, 126, 128, 135, 201, 224
extrinsic 15, 16, 17, 24, 25, 26, 54, 139, 145, 146, 150, 156, 182, 184
Eysenck, H. 181
Failure to Thrive 176
feelings 28, 29, 30, 32, 140, 154, 210 fight 3, 35, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 58, 61, 63, 68, 173, 178, 186, 187, 201, 206
Finland 171
fixed see mindset
Fixed Ratio Reinforcement Schedules 190
flight 3, 36, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 58, 61, 63, 68, 111, 173, 178, 186, 187, 201, 206
focus 2, 3, 4, 14, 22, 25, 33, 34, 49, 51, 54, 62, 150, 154, 157, 159, 160, 162, 163, 199
forebrain 50, 51, 177, 178, 214
forgetting 33
France 171
freeze 3, 36, 49, 51, 52, 54, 58, 63, 173, 201, 206
Freud, Sigmund 182
Hebb’s Rule 5, 79, 83, 158, 208
high risk 19
hindbrain 32, 49, 51, 52, 106, 118, 148, 177, 178
Hinton, Geoffrey 199, 200, 227
Homo erectus 48
IEP 26, 27, 34, 51, 107, 142, 225
impoverished 86, 92, 93, 94, 225
impulsive students 50
information theory 75
intelligence 2, 5, 28, 75, 120, 121, 124, 133, 150, 166, 209, 227
intrinsic 15, 16, 17, 18, 24, 25, 26, 33, 36, 42, 47, 60, 71, 113, 124, 139, 142, 145, 146, 150, 156, 184, 187, 194, 196, 197
involuntary 2, 3, 30, 36, 49, 51, 58, 68, 186, 201, 209, 218
labeling 40, 109, 113, 151, 175, 197, 200
lagging gaps 140
Law of Affect 28
licking rat 176
limbic system 118
linguistics 75, 76, 78, 166, 167
long-term potentiation 14, 48, 152, 154
love and belonging 174
Lowe’s Payment by Results 191
malleable plasticity 179
managing the classroom 22, 25, 55, 148
Mann, Horace 191
Maslow, A.H. 6, 173, 174, 175, 177, 180, 226
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 75, 166
mastery 17, 18, 71, 72, 120, 139, 142, 145, 146, 160, 162, 163, 187, 188, 194, 196, 209
melt-down 150
mental models 24, 51, 108, 122, 151
midbrain 31, 32, 33, 42, 49, 51, 178, 214
Miller’s Law 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 158, 170, 211
mindset 5, 14, 15, 17, 18, 24, 31, 33, 57, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 133, 150, 156, 196, 207, 220
motivation 5, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 24, 25, 26, 27, 33, 42, 47, 57, 60, 72, 97, 139, 150, 155, 190, 206, 209, 212, 221, 225
music: feelings, novelty 45
myelination 14, 32, 36, 48, 79, 99, 104, 133, 150, 154, 155, 169
Nation at Risk 185
Nation’s Report Card 12, 19, 31
Neanderthals 48
neocortex 31, 32, 33, 68, 91, 118, 125, 195, 196, 213
Neural Education 9, 51, 148, 149, 151, 157
Neural Educators 154
neuro-pedagogical methods 155
neuroplasticity see plasticity
neurotransmitters 9, 14, 51, 54, 61, 154, 155, 162
No Child Left Behind 183
novice 128
noxious stimulus 22, 23, 39, 44
Nucleus Accumbens 31
nutrition 150
occipital 55, 88, 210, 214, 218
operant conditioning 20, 21, 31, 38, 43, 202, 212, 214, 215, 216
orchids 65, 66, 68, 70, 122, 145, 148
over-stimulation 94
paradigm shift 1, 10, 13, 14, 15, 126, 130, 148, 151, 153
Parent University 149, 151, 155
payment by results 83
pedagogy 20, 40, 69, 72, 75, 79, 82, 83, 125, 148, 149, 151, 168
peripheral vision 147
Pestalozzi’s Yverdun 191
plasticity 5, 17, 24, 48, 51, 90, 91, 93, 113, 119, 122, 150, 151, 152, 214, 221
play 10, 31, 32, 54, 68, 86, 91, 102, 119, 143, 162, 165, 178
Poland 171
prefrontal cortex 88
Preparation for Future Learning (PFL) 128, 135
principal’s office 36, 39, 193
proprioception 146
public shaming 193
punishment 5, 15, 21, 22, 23, 24, 37, 38, 40, 42, 44, 45, 65, 86, 145, 148, 149, 153, 156, 172, 181, 182, 196, 201, 216
punitive 31, 68, 76, 83, 85, 155, 157, 170, 172, 182
purpose 17, 18, 38, 71, 120, 139, 142, 145, 146, 155, 162, 187, 188, 194, 196, 197, 200, 209, 212
Race to the Top 183
racism 87
receptors 4, 30, 54, 88, 92, 100, 103, 104, 105, 202, 209, 213
regulation 30, 31, 122; -co 32, 79; -self 31, 32, 50, 57, 60, 150, 178
reinforcement 21, 22, 23, 24, 33, 38, 89, 181, 182, 186, 187, 190, 221
repetition 24, 88, 105, 204, 209, 214
reptilian 32
resilience 2, 27, 67, 68, 69, 72, 110, 118, 120, 175, 192
reticular activating system 36, 58, 76, 109, 113, 118, 150, 170
rewards 5, 15, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 33, 35, 36, 38, 39, 43, 44, 47, 54, 65, 67, 81, 112, 145, 148, 149, 152, 153, 156, 158, 166, 172, 182, 186, 187, 205, 209, 212, 218
routine 15
screen time 150
segregation 87
self-talk 115
self-worth 152
sense of belonging 32, 42, 50, 54, 55, 68, 72, 134, 147, 151, 158, 163, 175, 177, 179, 193, 195, 196
Sequestered Problem Solving (SPS) 128, 135
serotonin 9, 52, 54, 64, 67, 72, 160, 219
sign language 176
Skinner, B.F. 6, 20, 21, 22, 30, 31, 33, 38, 39, 76, 84, 168, 175, 181, 182, 183, 184, 186, 187, 188, 189, 216, 221
sleep 150; REM 105, 106, 110, 112, 192, 194, 204, 209, 213, 215, 217
Slovenia 171
small motor skills 55, 59, 150, 162, 163
social context 32, 67, 72, 120, 145, 170, 192
social-evaluative threat 152
South Korea 171
Sputnik 85, 168, 172, 183, 184, 226
storification 196
stratification 19, 20, 40, 109, 113, 151, 170, 175, 182, 193, 200
stress 31, 35, 48, 53, 55, 58, 67, 71, 113, 126, 150, 177, 179, 192, 193, 194, 204, 205, 216, 223, 225
structures 2, 21, 30, 31, 32, 33, 36, 49, 51, 60, 79, 80, 86, 87, 88, 106, 109, 113, 122, 140, 141, 143, 146, 147, 151, 156, 160, 162, 163, 170, 176, 178, 179, 180, 194, 195, 203, 206, 210
synapse 4, 30, 54, 92, 101, 140, 154, 160, 205, 206, 207, 209, 215
talent 5, 120, 121, 122, 150, 174, 207
Taylor, F. 126
teach to the orchid 70
Thorndike, E.L. 6, 21, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 84, 126, 140, 182, 191, 197, 198, 210, 214, 221
Titanic 183
tolerance for ambiguity 17
Tractography 30
Turing Prize 200
Visual Motor Integration 147