Bonus. Brain Breaks: How Stopping Instruction (and Having Fun) Can Help Children Go Further | with Joshua MacNeill
Brave Writer
Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley
4.8 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
We know the early years are crucial when it comes to a child’s development – but do you know, specifically, how it affects the brain?
For example, in the first year of life, more than one million new neural connections are formed every second. Adversity impairs these new connections, and the greater the adversity a child faces, the greater the odds of a delay in their cognitive, language, or emotional development.
Today we’re going to learn more about the developing brain so that we, as parents and home educators, can incorporate brain-based practices into our family’s lives. Our guest for this episode is Joshua MacNeill, Director of Lakeside’s NeuroLogic Initiative and an expert in trauma-informed education.
You can download show notes for the podcast here: http://blog.bravewriter.com/category/podcasts/
Resources:
- You can download Free Writing Lessons here: go.bravewriter.com/free-writing-lessons
- Learn more at lakesidelink.com/training/neurologic
- 101 Brain Breaks & Educational Activities by Joshua MacNeill
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to season three of the podcast A Brave Writers Life in Brief. I'm Julie Bogart, your host. |
| 0:08.4 | There's always this mindset that people had that if you're trying to learn or you're trying to regulate your |
| 0:13.4 | students it better not be fun and I think quite the opposite is you know if you want to |
| 0:19.3 | get them engaged in that you better make it fun. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome. that you better make it fun. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to a special edition of the Brave Writer Podcast. I'm Julie Bogart, your host. |
| 0:31.0 | We know the early years are crucial in a child's development, but do you |
| 0:36.8 | know how it affects the brain? For example, in the first few years of life, more than 1 million new neural connections are formed every second, |
| 0:48.3 | according to studies by Harvard University. |
| 0:51.3 | Adversity impairs these new connections, and the greater the adversity a child faces, the greater the odds of a delay in their |
| 1:00.0 | cognitive, language, or emotional development. |
| 1:04.0 | Today on the podcast we have Joshua McNeil, |
| 1:08.0 | Masters of Education, Director of Lakeside's |
| 1:11.4 | Neurologic Initiative. Josh is an expert in trauma-informed |
| 1:16.3 | education and uses his expertise to train other educators in these practices. |
| 1:22.0 | Today he'll help us understand other educators in these practices. |
| 1:27.8 | Today, he'll help us understand how we can incorporate these brain-based practices as home educators, even of kids who haven't suffered trauma. |
| 1:34.8 | Josh lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia with his wife Abby and they have three children, Mathur who's four |
| 1:39.8 | Eleanor who's two and little Sawyer who's just a couple months old. |
| 1:44.3 | Before children, Josh and Abbey ran a small farm with their best friends for several |
| 1:48.8 | years and developed a love of living off the land. Josh's family currently has two cats, Sampson and Delilah, |
| 1:56.0 | a one-year-old Bernese mountain dog Teddy, |
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