Teachers can manage discipline through changes of activity, emotional arousal, or curiosity in order to help students control their reactive brain stems.
	Our neo-cortex is a pattern-seeking, pattern-making organ. Something goes from information to meaning by organizing data into patterns.
	Feedback, immediate and dramatic, is the all-time best way to foster intelligence.
	Learners are constantly switching from internal to external, focused to diffused learning. It is natural that students will move in and out of phase during the learning process.
	“Enriched” environments mean greater compansionship and more active involvement in challenge and novelty, helping neural branching to occur with appropriate stimulation.
	The brain is not designed to take on big ideas easily. It has to chunk them in pieces or build up its own mental models over time Graphic and other advanced organizers are helpful.
	Experience-based learning reinforces context-based learning, the form of learning proven best in promoting long-term retention.
	Much of the most powerful learning may not show up for months or years. Teaching and testing in traditional modes may not capture the true extent of student learning.
	“Our brain is a box packed with emotions.” One of the major roles of the mid-brain is to tell us if something is meaningful. Students must receive support to feel that something is true and has personal relevance to them if they are to retain it.

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