Featured speakers included Karen Holicky-Michaels, L.J. Correll Menzel, and Cheri Lunders. At the third session, led by Dr. Burton Cohen and Peter Hilts, participants discussed the implications of these principles for school design. These research findings suggest the following principles of brain-based learning. Each brain is unique. High stress or threat can impair learning and can even kill brain cells.
Emotions impact attention, health, learning, interpretation of meaning, and memory.
A multitude of memory and neural pathways store and retrieve information. The body impacts learning through movement, food, cycles of attention, drugs, and other chemicals. Changes in the brain involve its entire complex and adaptive system. Building intelligence involves finding and building patterns and programs. The brain values meaning over information.