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=Resources for Brain Based Learning.= Excerpt: Instructors can do several things to help those students [students from poverty enfironments] cope with the realities of their stressful lives. Jensen encourages educators to help shifts students’ attitudes by having students recite daily what they’re grateful for, what they hope to learn, and what they’re looking forward to in the future. “Instead of complaining about kids’ attitudes, they are in fact, altering them,” he said. Another skill educators can help students obtain deals with an executive function. Since stress can impair short-term memory, Jensen encourages teachers to play memory-building word games. In fact, memory has shown to be the top predictor of scores in mathematics, according to Maria Chiara Passolunghi and Silvia Lanfranchi in the //British Journal of Educational Psychology.// ||< [] || Jensen, Eric. (2009) //Teaching with poverty in mind : what being poor does to kids' brains and what schools can do about it.// Jensen, Eric. (2005) //Teaching with the brain in mind.// Darling-Kuria, Nikki. (2010) //Brain-based early learning activities : connecting theory and practice.// These and other titles on brain-based learning are available in the Denver Public Schools Professional Library. |||| [] ||
 * < **Eric Jensen Youtube Video //Brain Based Learning//** || Short video explaining way brain based learning theory is important for teachers and a couple of tips on getting started. ||<  ||
 * < **Learning in the Midst of Poverty - Eric Jensen** || A short description of Eric Jensen's presentation at the Association for Suervision and Curriculum Devepment(ASCD) Conference in 2012.
 * **Books available from the DPS Professional Library.** || Jensen, Eric. (2010) //Different brains, different learners : how to reach the hard to reach.//
 * ** Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain ** || Michael Merzenich studies neuroplasticity -- the brain's powerful ability to change itself and adapt -- and ways we might make use of that plasticity to heal injured brains and enhance the skills in healthy ones. |||| Link to Michael Merzenich TED Talk.[] ||
 * ** Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain ** || Michael Merzenich studies neuroplasticity -- the brain's powerful ability to change itself and adapt -- and ways we might make use of that plasticity to heal injured brains and enhance the skills in healthy ones. |||| Link to Michael Merzenich TED Talk.[] ||
 * ** Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain ** || Michael Merzenich studies neuroplasticity -- the brain's powerful ability to change itself and adapt -- and ways we might make use of that plasticity to heal injured brains and enhance the skills in healthy ones. |||| Link to Michael Merzenich TED Talk.[] ||