FRESH School Health and Nutrition (SHN) Webinar: Understanding the Enabling Environment for Teaching and Learning – July 2019

• What conditions are required for students and their educators to build their capacity for effective teaching-learning, social interaction, and development?
• What is the effect of psychosocial stress on educator and student capacities for learning and good decision making?
• What are the recent advances in neurobiology that help us to understand how socio-emotional dynamics work and why they are important?

Join us and the American Institutes for Research as we celebrate World Youth Skills Day to learn more about the interplay of biological, relational and contextual factors that shape learning outcomes.

Speaker: Elizabeth Spier, PhD, Principal Researcher, American Institutes for Research

Presentation Downloads:

• Educating the Whole Child: Improving school climate to support student success (2018)
• The Intersection of School Climate and Social and Emotional Development (2017)
• The Evidence Base for How We Learn: Supporting students’ social, emotional, and academic development (2017)