Award Winning Author David A. Sousa on "How the Brain Learns"

<p>Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning podcast, episode #78 with David A. Sousa, an international educational consultant and author of more than 16 books that suggest ways that educators and parents can translate current brain research into strategies to improve learning. <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4welQLkKm5I'>Watch the interview on YouTube here. </a></p> <p>It was David Sousa’s <em>How the Brain Learns book Series</em><a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a>  that is now in its 4th Edition (that includes How the Brain Learns, How the Brain Learns to Read, How the Gifted Brain Learns, and How the Special Needs Brain Learns) that I was given by an educator when I was urged to add the most current brain research to my programs. When reading this series, I was told from other respected colleagues that this book series is one that every educator should read. It also helped me as a parent of a struggling reader to understand how my own child learns to read and gave me more understanding and patience to help put into practice some of the secrets for accelerating literacy that I will share throughout this interview.</p> <p>I also discovered How the ELL Brain Learns<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a>  that helped me to create a webinar for an educational publisher called “Nine Brain-Based Strategies to Skyrocket Literacy and Achievement”<a href='#_edn3'>[iii]</a> and there’s also Differentiation and the Brain and How the Brain Learns Mathematics. The Leadership Brain suggests ways for educators to lead more effectively in today’s schools.</p> <p>He also has a book for educators, Engaging<em> the Rewired Brain</em> that examines how technology changes the way students' brains function and how educators can adapt instruction to keep students motivated and The Power of Student Teams<a href='#_edn4'>[iv]</a>: Achieving Social, Emotional and Cognitive Learning in Every Classroom Through Academic Teaming<a href='#_edn5'>[v]</a> that describes a path to predictable success for every student