Institutes
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Basic Institutes
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Registration for 2021 Institutes is OPEN!
Institute | Dates / Times | Tuition | Register |
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Basic 1 - Virtual | June 28 - July 2, 2021 8:00 am - 4:00 pm PT | Sponsored @ $299 Early Bird until May 28
$348 after May 28 | FULL |
Basic 2 - Virtual | July 26 - July 30, 2021 8:00 am - 4:00 pm PT | Sponsored @ $299 Early Bird until June 26
$348 after June 26 * scholarship request for BIPOC & LGBTQ+ educators | |
Basic 3 - Virtual | August 2 - August 6, 2021 8:00 am - 4:00 pm PT | Sponsored @ $299 Early Bird until July 2
$348 after July 2 * scholarship request for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ educators |
Advanced Institute
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Registration for 2021 Institutes is OPEN!
Institute | Dates/Times | Tuition | Register |
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Advanced Institute - Virtual | August 9 - August 11 8:00am - 4:00 pm PST | Sponsored at $147 Early Bird until July 9 $ $197 after July 9 * scholarship request for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ educators |
Understanding the neuroscience of learning has opened my professional practice to be more flexible, creative, purposeful and proactive. I have a clearer understanding of the structures and strategies that engage the brain in learning most effectively. My students have gained greater access to learning because I now understand how and why the brain functions as it does. This training has reenergized my work and revolutionized my practice! "
Mary Snyder
Social Emotional Learning Coordinator
Steilacoom Historical School District
What You Can Do After...
Usage/Access | Single Course | PD Events | PLC Participants | Completed Basic Institute | Completed Adv Institute | Certified Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Challenge Mosaic Model in Classroom | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Content Ideas Integrated into Teaching | X | X | X | X | X | X |
"Flipped" Resources | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Access to Alumni Resources | X | X | X | |||
Use of Presentations and/or Slides | X | |||||
Training Others | X | |||||
Paid Teaching | X | |||||
Paid School Consulting |
Presenters
Kieran O'Mahony
PhD, BcID, FRGS
Missy Widmann
MA, PhD candidate
Christine Young
MEd - Biology
Mary Snyder
Emotional Learning Specialist
Tabitha Ellison
Assistant Director of Special Education
Dr. Kieran O’Mahony is the founder of the Institute for Connecting Neuroscience with Teaching and Learning (iCNtl), a Seattle-based nonprofit that provides professional development for K–12 teachers with a view to improving learning outcomes. As a learning scientist with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, Dr. O’Mahony carried out systems research at the University of Washington College of Education LIFE Center (Learning in Informal and Formal Environments), the first NSF-funded Science of Learning Center that studied the social aspects of how children learn.
Dr. O’Mahony’s other research interests include sociocultural perspectives on cognition, learning, graphical representation, and use of technology in formal and informal learning environments.
Missy Widmann has always had a passion for education, neuroscience, health, fitness, and community. Fortunately, her newest endeavor includes all of them. Missy currently serves as an educational consultant, supporting teachers and students connecting neuroscience with teaching and learning. She is a founding advisory member and presenter at Neural Education. She is also currently a doctoral student at Northeastern University in Seattle where she is researching educator attitudes and their impact on the educational trajectory of our students.
Missy has been teaching at the secondary level since 2000 in the areas of Health & Fitness and Anatomy & Physiology. She is currently teaching Health and Fitness at Challenger Alternative High School in Spanaway, WA.
Christine Young has taught high school and middle school biology in the Seattle area of 15 years. Chris' current work with Neural Education combines her interests in neuroscience, cognition, social emotional learning, mindfulness and exercise into cohesive programming and outreach.
Mary Snyder currently serves as a Social Emotional Learning Specialist and district administrator for Steilacoom Historical School District and has a teaching background of over 20 years in higher education, elementary education, reading, and instructional coaching. Mary's work currently focuses on the development of systems of support integrating neuroscience with social emotional learning.
Tabitha Ellison currently serves as the Assistant Director of Special Education in Steilacoom Historical School District. Throughout her 10 years as a special education teacher and para-educator, Tabitha cultivated a growing interest in connecting neuroscience to teaching and learning. She continues this focus as she works to develop systems of support for all students explicitly guiding them in autonomy, self-regulation and self-efficacy.
Champion Certification
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You can realize all of this and have the opportunity to be paid to positively impact the future.
The Neural Education Champion Certification program has been designed to train passionate educators to help reach teachers, administrators, families and policy makers. They in turn knock down the barriers of stress, bias and emotional reactivity with powerful, practical and proven brain-based learning strategies that help all students learn and succeed.
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