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Melanie Byers

  • Kettering Middle School
Ohio
  • $2,000
  • Grant Type: Learning & Leadership Grant
  • 2015, Spring
  • Grade Level: Grades 6-8
  • Subject: General Pedagogical Practice

To better understand how to use cognitive science to improve and inspire student learning, Mrs. Byers will attend a “Learning and the Brain Conference” centered around educating world-class minds. While there, Byers will learn from distinguished faculty how to prepare students for a changing global world by understanding how to engage young brains and how to advance 21st Century thinking using brain research. Upon returning, Byers will provide a teacher workshop at her school offering a variety of topics, activities, and discussions centered around learning and the brain. 

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