Virtual Lunch & Learn: Teaching to Every One’s Potential - Using Neuroscience Lessons to Liberate Learners

Fusion Academy

Date and Time: Friday, June 10, 2022, at 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Location: Virtual

Cost: Free

Registration: Register here!

This talk synthesizes fresh information from the learning sciences to present essential paradoxes about how we learn. Highlighting certain biases that tend to keep us from fostering learning potential, you will walk away with strategies and insight to enhance your work and re-situate yourself within your learning community.

1. Understand why what I call the "neurological imperatives" - flexibility, readiness, connection, and unmasking - are fundamentally important for understanding how brains learn and create.

2. Learn strategies that animate each of these imperatives and optimize support for the development of executive functions.

3. Learn mindfulness strategies to reduce stress, encourage agency, and establish mindsets that are optimal for learning and creating in any setting.

About the Speaker:

Layne Kalbfleisch, M.Ed., Ph.D., owns 2E Consults ® LLC, a practice providing assessment and coaching services for families and children and organizations who work on behalf of families and children. She is affiliated in Pediatrics at The George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C., and in the College of Education at Northern New Mexico College, Espanola, NM. An educational psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist, she studies the relationship between talent and disability and how the human brain supports ingenuity and problem solving across life. She is a former middle school teacher. She received the inaugural ‘Scientist Idol’ award for messaging science to the public from the National Science Foundation in 2010 and is a member of the US Department of State Committee on Exceptional Children. Kalbfleisch has been featured on CNN with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, SiriusXM Doctor Radio, The Coffee Klatch – Special Needs Radio, Rhode Island PBS ‘School Talk’ and as a columnist writing on brain science and education for the Fairfax County Times. She is the author of "Teaching to Every Kid's Potential: Simple Neuroscience Lessons to Liberate Learners" (W.W. Norton, 2021).