CASE STUDY: Manjula Veeranna from India on ”Transforming Lives with a Brain-Based Classroom”

<p>Welcome to The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we cover the science-based evidence behind social and emotional learning (for schools) and emotional intelligence training (in the workplace) with tools, ideas and strategies that we can all use for immediate results. When we understand how the brain works, we can be better equipped to help our students focus their attention and improve their results.</p> <p>Watch this interview on YouTube here <a href='https://youtu.be/jqRo1e30PkM'>https://youtu.be/jqRo1e30PkM</a></p> <p></p> <p>I’m Andrea Samadi, an author, and educator with a passion for learning specifically on the topics of health, wellbeing and productivity, and launched this podcast to share how important an understanding of our brain is to our everyday life and results--whether we are a teacher in the classroom, or in the modern workplace.  We have moved onto Season 8 of the podcast with a focus on our brain as it relates to learning, and today we have a case study, of someone who has been using the concepts she learned from self-study to create a brain-based program in her schools and community in India where they have already trained over 300 educators with her curriculum at the Institute of Cognitive Learning Sciences.<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a></p> <p>On the episode you will learn:</p> <p>✔ How an ambitious, forward-thinking educator, has created brain-based K-12 curriculum in India.</p> <p>✔ How Manjula learned the most current neuroscience research before seeking out a certification with Dr. Kieran O’Mahony.</p> <p>✔ The differences Manjula saw with the US Educational System and India.</p> <p>✔ How she plans to impact change in the classroom, one teacher at a time.</p> <p>Manjula sent me a message via my website, all the way from India, letting me know that she had listened to EPISODE #220<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a> with Dr. Kieran O’Mahony and Rich Carr on “Brain Centric Design” and she let me know she was a student of Dr. Kieron’s programs, and wanted to shar