Brain-Based Early Learning Activities: Connecting Theory and Practice, Birth to Age 8. Nikki Darling-Kuria, $37.50

Give children stronger, more meaningful learning experiences with 80 brain-based activities that engage both hemispheres of the brain. Each activity promotes learning in the areas of language, mathematics, science, art, music, and the environment and encourages physical, social, and emotional development. Included are materials lists, extension activities, variations for multi-sensory exploration, components for diversity, and an explanation of the brain connections being made. Brain-Based Early Learning Activities also provides a comprehensive overview of early brain development and key components necessary to create a brain-based early learning environment.

Brain-Based Learning: the New Paradigm of Teaching, 2nd Edition. Eric Jensen, $54.95

This comprehensive text demonstrates how brain-compatible learning environments can work to optimize learning in the classroom, reduce discipline problems, overcome learning difficulties and increase graduation rates.

Brain-Based Teaching with Adolescent Learning in Mind. Glenda Beamon Crawford, $46.20

In this second edition of Brain-Based Teaching With Adolescent Learning in Mind, Glenda Crawford shows you the newest research available on adolescent brain development and provides a structure for connecting the research to students' social, emotional, and cognitive needs. Crawford also presents how-to strategies for motivating teens with inquiry, relevance, and collaboration, as well as links to relevant Web sites.

The Brain-Compatible Classroom: a Teacher's Guide. Pat Wolfe, $13.95

This 6-page, laminated reference guide is designed to increase your understanding of what the research tells us about the brain its structure and function; and how it takes in, rehearses, stores and retrieves information. You can apply the research to your own classroom; designing brain-compatible instruction that will increase students' abilities both in and out of the classroom.

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home and School. John Medina, $16.50

Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know — like the need for physical activity to get your brain working its best. In BRAIN RULES, Dr. John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule — what scientists know for sure about how our brains work — and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives.

Medina's fascinating stories and infectious sense of humor breathe life into brain science. You'll learn why Michael Jordan was no good at baseball. You'll peer over a surgeon's shoulder as he proves that most of us have a Jennifer Aniston neuron. You'll meet a boy who has an amazing memory for music but can't tie his own shoes. In the end, you'll understand how your brain really works — and how to get the most out of it.

Celebrating Every Learner: Activities and Strategies for Creating a Multiple Intelligences Classroom. Thomas Hoerr, Sally Boggeman, Christine Wallach, et al, $39.95

This important book offers a practical guide to understanding how Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) can be used in the classroom.

Gardner identified eight different types of intelligence: linguistic, logical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Celebrating Every Learner describes the characteristics of each type of intelligence and follows up with ready-to-use lesson plans and activities that teachers can use to incorporate MI in their pre-K through 6 classrooms.

Enriching the Brain: How to Maximize Every Learner's Potential. Eric Jensen, $26.99

Drawing from a wide range of neuroscience research and related studies, Eric Jensen, a leading expert in the translation of brain research into education, offers a powerful new understanding of how the brain can be “enriched”. Enriching the Brain offers an inspiring and innovative set of practices for promoting enrichment in the home, the school, and the classroom that will maximize learning, memory, behavior and overall function. Enriching the Brain gives parents, teachers and policymakers the tools they need for taking their role as ‘brain shapers’ much more seriously.

Five Minds for the Future. Howard Gardner, $26.95

In Five Minds for the Future, Howard Gardner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in the years ahead:

• The Disciplinary mind - mastery of major schools of thought including science, mathematics, and history and of at least one professional craft
• The Synthesizing mind - ability to integrate ideas from different disciplines or spheres into a coherent whole and to communicate that integration to others
• The Creating mind - capacity to uncover and clarify new problems, questions, and phenomena
• The Respectful mind - awareness of and appreciation for differences among human beings and human groups
• The Ethical mind - fulfillment of one's responsibilities as a worker and citizen

World-renowned for his theory of multiple intelligences, Gardner takes that thinking to the next level in this book, drawing from a wealth of diverse examples to illuminate his ideas. Concise and engaging, Five Minds for the Future will inspire lifelong learning in any reader and provide valuable insights for those charged with training and developing organizational leaders - both today and tomorrow.

Frames of Mind: the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Revised Edition. Howard Gardner, $23.00

First published in 1983, Gardner's trailblazing book revolutionized the worlds of education and psychology by positing that rather than a single type of intelligence, we have several — most of which are neglected by standard testing and educational methods. In this updated edition, Howard Gardner reflects on thirty years of work on Multiple Intelligence theory and practice.

Helping Students Remember: Exercises and Strategies to Strengthen Memory. Milton Dehn, $61.00 (includes CD-ROM)

A hands-on memory-training program for children and adolescents featuring dozens of practical, evidence-based memory exercises.

How the Brain Learns Mathematics. David Sousa, $54.95

Learn how the brain processes mathematical concepts and why some students develop math anxiety. Highly respected author and researcher David Sousa explains the latest neuro-scientific findings in practical, understandable terms and discusses the impact this information has for teaching mathematics at all grade levels. How the Brain Learns Mathematics covers the cognitive mechanisms for learning mathematics, the environmental and developmental factors that contribute to mathematics difficulties, and ways to differentiate mathematics instruction.

How the Gifted Brain Learns, 2nd Edition. David Sousa, $43.95

How the Gifted Brain Learns helps educators turn research on the brain function of intellectually and artistically advanced students into practical classroom activities and strategies. Building on the latest discoveries in neuroscience, learning, and the nature of intelligence, this book examines why traditional talent-identification techniques are inadequate (and often inaccurate), and presents methods that will allow you to identify giftedness and talent potential with greater accuracy than ever before.

The Jossey Bass Reader on The Brain and Learning. Introduction by Kurt Fischer, Edited by Jossey-Bass Publishers, $41.99

This comprehensive reader presents an accessible overview of recent brain research and contains valuable insights into how students learn and how we should teach them. It includes articles from the top thinkers in both the brain science and K-12 education fields, such as Joseph LeDoux, Howard Gardner, Sally Shaywitz, and John Bransford. This rich and varied volume offers myriad perspectives on the brain, mind, and education, and features twenty-six chapters in seven primary areas of interest:

• An overview of the brain
• The brain-based learning debate
• Memory, cognition, and intelligence
• Emotional and social foundations
• Language, reading, and math
• The arts
• When the brain works differently

Mind UP! Curriculum: Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning and Living, Grades PreK-2.  The Hawn Foundation, $26.99

Mind UP! Curriculum: Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning and Living, Grades 3-5.  The Hawn Foundation, $26.99

Mind UP! Curriculum: Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning and Living, Grades 6-8.  The Hawn Foundation, $27.99

Mind UP! is a comprehensive social and emotional learning program for pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade students, and is informed by current research in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, mindful education, social and emotional learning, positive psychology and evidence-based teaching practices.  Easy to implement, it fits smoothly into any daily classroom routine, and the follow-up activities are readily integrated into content-area learning modules and lessons. Teachers can weave the program’s vocabulary and concepts into daily class discussions as well.

By incorporating mindful learning into the classroom, students become more alert, self-aware, optimistic, motivated, and focused. They employ higher-level thinking, become more creative, cooperate and collaborate with others, and develop their long-term memories. Mindful attention provides the neurological climate for children to develop confidence, optimism, and motivation. They can succeed because they believe they can. They can harness their mental energy and effort, persevere, and think before acting.

Mind UP! provides a framework for teachers to learn strategies to boost students’ social and emotional competencies and to create an optimistic classroom.

Multiple Intelligences Around the World. Edited by Jie-Qi Chen, Seana Moran & Howard Gardner, $36.00

Multiple intelligences (MI) theory has been introduced and implemented successfully in numerous countries around the world. This is the first collection to review, synthesize, and reflect on this unique cross-cultural and educational phenomenon. Through this synthesis and reflection, the book's authors provide a fresh and fuller understanding of MI theory. In addition, they develop more specific knowledge about why MI theory has been welcomed in so many countries, how its use can be appropriate in diverse cultures, and what has supported and fueled travel of the MI meme.

Multiple Intelligences: Pathways to Success. Thomas Hoerr, $12.95 (Laminated Reference Guide)

This valuable laminated reference guide presents a practical overview of MI that gives examples and suggestions on how MI can be used to help students learn and teachers succeed.

By incorporating MI into teaching, students' opportunities to learn are increased, and teachers find teaching more interesting and rewarding. Particular attention is given to assessment through PEP's (Projects, Exhibitions, Presentations), and to the personal intelligences. Use of student portfolios, the distributed intelligence, and ways to educate students' parents about MI are also addressed.

The Neuropsychology of Mathematics: Diagnosis and Intervention. Steven Feifer & Philip De Fina, $59.95

The Neuropsychology of Mathematics explores how young children learn and acquire basic mathematical skills from a brain-based educational perspective. There are discussions on three primary ways in which numbers are formatted in the brain, as well as the relationship between anxiety and mathematical performance during classroom learning situations.

The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders: Diagnosis and Intervention. Steven Feifer & Philip De Fina, $42.95

The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders discusses the various subtypes of dyslexia from a brain-behavioral perspective as opposed to the traditional discrepancy model. It includes in-depth material on:

• Neural Circuitry of Reading
• Subtypes of Dyslexia
• The 90 Minute Dyslexia Evaluation
• Remediation Techniques
• Case Studies, Teacher Checklists, Sample Tests

The Neuropsychology of Written Language Disorders: Diagnosis and Intervention. Steven Feifer & Philip De Fina, $42.95

The Neuropsychology of Written Language Disorders discusses both language based and non-language based written language disorders from a brain-based education model of learning. It is intended for school psychologists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, special educators and school administrators.

Also available as a set — all three titles by Steven Feifer & Philip De Fina, $122.95

The Neuropsychology of Mathematics: Diagnosis and Intervention / The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders: Diagnosis and Intervention / The Neuropsychology of Written Language Disorders: Diagnosis and Intervention

The New Science of Teaching and Learning: Using the Best of Mind, Brain and Education Science in the Classroom. Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, $32.95

This book offers a definitive, scientifically grounded guide for better teaching and learning practices. Drawing from thousands of documents and the opinions of recognized experts worldwide, it explains in straight talk the new Mind, Brain, and Education Science—a field that has grown out of the intersection of neuroscience, education, and psychology. This book distinguishes true, applicable neuroscience from the popular “neuromyths” that have gained currency in education. Each instructional guideline presented in the book is accompanied by real-life classroom examples to help teachers envision the direct application of the information in their own schools.

Positive Visualizations: Solution-Based Strategies to Empower Students to See Successful Outcomes to Challenges They Face at School. Victoria Cull, $27.50 (grades 3-7)

Intended to be an aid to the school counselor whose student needs help right away, this book includes 50 resource pages on the topics of problem solving, school skills, character education, anger, self-concept, and feelings.

Perhaps the principal or another teacher has sent a student to you for help with a particular issue. That’s when you need a concrete format to help that student quickly visualize a solution in a safe place. The techniques described in this book can turn a student’s day around. Your guidance will enable the student to view the situation not as a problem but as an opportunity to recognize positive options.

Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning: Insights from a Neurologist and Classroom Teacher. Judy Willis, $25.95

Author Judy Willis is an author who is both a neurologist and a classroom teacher. In Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning, Dr. Willis combs through brain research and pulls out the information that is most valid and relevant to classroom teaching. Find out how to enhance your students' memory and test-taking abilities and discover ways to captivate and hold students' attention and encourage their participation and progress.

Schools for All Kinds of Minds: Boosting Student Success by Embracing Learning Variation. Mary-Dean Barringer, Craig Pohlman & Michele Robinson, $33.95

This book shows how schools can develop expertise in "learning variation" (understanding how different kinds of minds learn) and apply this knowledge to classroom instruction in order to address the chronic learning challenges and achievement gap faced by millions of students. Schools for All Kinds of Minds shows how using what we know about learning variation with a focus on discovering learning strengths, not just deficits, can help schools create plans for success for those students who often find it elusive.

Secrets of the Teenage Brain: Research Based Strategies for Reaching and Teaching Today’s Adolescents. Sheryl Feinstein, $57.50

Organized around specific areas of adolescent development, this resource is packed with fresh instructional strategies that can be modified and adapted to various content areas. Secrets of the Teenage Brain helps unlock the secrets of the biological and neurological changes happening in the teenage brain. Educators can use these insights to help students reach their full potential.

Teaching NLP in the Classroom. Kate Spohrer, $24.95

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is a very effective tool in helping students overcome fears, anxieties and limitations — which in turn can help them to achieve more in school and become more fulfilled as individuals. NLP techniques are a useful addition to every classroom, but are especially useful when working with children with special needs or behavioral difficulties.

Teaching Writing to Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners. Donovan R. Walling, $37.95

Are your picture-smart, music-smart, and body-smart learners lagging behind their word-smart and number-smart peers? Donovan Walling offers innovative new ways to help these learners become effective writers! With an emphasis on matching teaching method to learning style and developing both basic writing competencies and higher-level thinking skills, this resource offers instructional strategies, sample lessons, a learning styles self-assessment. This is an essential resource for teachers, literacy coaches, and curriculum designers who want to expand writing curriculum and incorporate more non-linear methods into their instructional repertoires.

Understanding Black Male Learning Styles. Jawanza Kunjufu, $17.95

Starting with a look at the culture of young black males, educational consultant Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu examines learning styles, peer learning and gender differences as well as educator’s perceptions. Understanding Black Male Learning Styles challenges educators to teach the way children learn — and shows teachers how to discover the ideal learning environment for some of their most challenged students.

Why Don’t Students Like School? Daniel Willingham, $29.95

A cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for the classroom.

Your Brain on Childhood: the Unexpected Side Effects of Classrooms, Ballparks, Family Rooms and the Minivan. Gabrielle Principe, $19.50

For most of human existence, childhood was spent in a natural environment. Children spent their days roaming in packs and playing on their own. They improvised their play, invented games, and made up their own rules.  

While modern environments have made life easier and more secure for children, scientists are finding that this new lifestyle is having unwanted side effects on children's brains. Today's structured & controlled surroundings are exactly wrong for developing brains. Children learn by exploration, experimentation & exposure to the real world.

In YOUR BRAIN ON CHILDHOOD, developmental psychologist Gabrielle Principe reviews the consequences of raising children in today's highly unnatural environments and suggests ways in which we can learn to naturalize childhood again, so that a child's home and school environments gel with how the brain was designed to grow.

Fascinating and controversial, this well-researched discussion by an expert on child development will make readers rethink how we are raising our children.