Webinar: Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains

Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains

The ability to use metacognition is one of the characteristics of high-achieving students and a key skill that all students can learn. In this webinar, based on Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers’ ASCD book, Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains: Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas, teachers and leaders will learn how they can teach students to drive their brains.

The authors will discuss a practical framework for helping school-age students across all grade levels and content areas become metacognitive learners. Wilson and Conyers’ research-based methods are tried and true and have been refined through work with tens of thousands of teachers over the past 20 years. You will learn how this approach helps teachers experience more joy as they teach so that students have more “aha” moments. Participate in this webinar and take away some brain-based teaching strategies you will enjoy learning and using!

Speakers

Donna Wilson
Co-Founder
BrainSMART

Donna Wilson, leader of the academic team at BrainSMART and the Center for Innovative Education and Prevention, is an educational and school psychologist and former teacher. Wilson is codeveloper of graduate studies in mind, brain, and education science at the master’s through doctoral levels and has facilitated professional development with tens of thousands of educators.

Marcus Conyers
Director, Research and Development
Center for Innovative Education and Prevention

Marcus Conyers is a doctoral researcher at the University of Westminster and director of research and development for the Center for Innovative Education and Prevention. As the coauthor of 20 books on applications of mind, brain, and education science, he has led statewide initiatives and worked in 30 countries, reaching more than 100,000 administrators and teachers.