Karla McAdam’s Updates

  • Poverty and Brain Development as Seen from One Educator/Author’s Perspective

    What do we know about the affects of poverty on brain development and learning in some of our most needy children?  Author Eric Jensen has devoted a career to examining research that can help shed light on this question.  Jensen (2009), in his b...More

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  • Montessori and Constructivism

    “The role of an education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all of his potential.”  -Maria Montessori

    What do we know about Montessori and Constructivism?

    Jean Piaget, founder of constructivism, sugg...More