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Cultivating Practical Optimism: A Key to Growing a Growth Mindset  and Getting the Best from Your Brain

Cultivating Practical Optimism: A Key to Growing a Growth Mindset and Getting the Best from Your Brain

by Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers | Nov 22, 2018

Earlier this year, we enjoyed meeting many educators from across Australia and New Zealand when we presented at the 2018 Hawker Brownlow Education Thinking & Learning Conference in Melbourne, Australia. In Donna’s session, “Creating Practically Optimistic...
Book Review: Introduction to BrainSMART® Teaching: Science, Structures and Strategies for Increasing Student Learning

Book Review: Introduction to BrainSMART® Teaching: Science, Structures and Strategies for Increasing Student Learning

by Bern Nicholls | Aug 16, 2018

Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers’ BrainSMART® Model reflects the ever-expanding body of research on the brain and our potential to learn and change throughout our entire life span. I cannot remember David Sousa’s direct quote, nor its location, but the message struck a...
Thinking & Learning 2018 Roundup: Teaching Students to Drive their Brains: Metacognition – Driving My Brain!

Thinking & Learning 2018 Roundup: Teaching Students to Drive their Brains: Metacognition – Driving My Brain!

by Bern Nicholls | Aug 14, 2018

The final day of the Hawker Brownlow Education Thinking & Learning Conference 2018 was invigorating, with the main challenge being the actioning of at least one great idea learned over the past three days! A key question driving Donna Wilson’s early experiences as...

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