Preparing Children for Success in School and Life: 20 Ways to Increase Your Child’s Brain Power - Softcover

Tate, Marcia L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412988446 ISBN 13: 9781412988445

Publisher: Corwin, 2011

Synopsis

Make sure your children grow dendrites!

Award-winning educator Marcia L. Tate provides a research-based road map for raising respectful, responsible children who achieve to their fullest potential. The best-selling author, mother, and grandmother shares brain-compatible strategies for "growing dendrites" and guiding children toward personal, academic, and career success. Her latest book provides parents and caregivers with a wealth of practical tips and tools for:

• Creating a calm and brain-compatible home environment
• Incorporating positive physical contact and verbal communication
• Encouraging play that develops creativity and imagination
• Strengthening children’s auditory, tactile, kinesthetic, and visual modes of learning

About this title

About the Author:

Marcia L. Tate is the former executive director of professional development for the DeKalb County School System in Decatur, Georgia.  During her 30-year career with the district, she has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator, and staff development executive director.  Marcia was named Staff Developer of the Year for the state of Georgia, and her department was selected to receive the Exemplary Program Award for the state.

 

Marcia is currently CEO of the consultant firm she shares with her husband, Tyrone, and has presented her workshops to over 500,000 administrators, teachers, parents, and community leaders from all over the United States and the world, including Australia, Canada, Egypt, Hungary, Oman, New Zealand, Singapore, and Thailand.

 

She is the author of the following eight bestsellers: Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies that Engage the Brain (3rd ed.), Sit & Get Won’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Professional Learning Strategies that Engage the Adult Brain (2nd ed.); Reading and Language Arts Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Literacy Strategies that Engage the Brain (2nd ed.); Mathematics Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Numeracy Strategies that Engage the Brain; Science Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies that Engage the Brain; Social Studies Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies that Engage the Brain; Shouting Won’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Techniques to Detour Around the Danger Zones (2nd ed.); and Preparing Children for Success in School and in Life: 20 Ways to Increase Your Child’s Brain Power.  She is also the author of Formative Assessment in a Brain-compatible Classroom: How Do We Really Know They Are Learning? which won the 2017 Independent Publishers Book Award.  Marcia has written a number of published articles and chapters that have been included in other books.  Participants in her workshops call them some of the best ones they have ever experienced since Marcia models the 20 strategies in her books to actively engage her audiences.  
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Marcia received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and elementary education from Spelman College in Atlanta, her master’s degree in remedial reading from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and her specialist and doctorate degrees in educational leadership from Georgia State University and Clark Atlanta University, respectively.  Spelman College awarded her the Apple Award for excellence in the field of education.

 

Marcia has not only been married to Tyrone for more than 39 years but they are the proud parents of three wonderful children, Jennifer, Jessica, and Christopher.  If she had known how wonderful it would be to be a grandmother, Marcia would have had her eight grandchildren, Christian, Aidan, Maxwell, Aaron, Roman, Shiloh, Aya, and Noah, before she had her children.  She and her husband own the company, Developing Minds Inc., and can be contacted by calling the company at (770) 918-5039, by e-mailing her at marciata@bellsouth.net, or by visiting either her business website at www.developingmindsinc.com  or her personal website at www.drmarciatate.com.  Follow Marcia on Twitter and Instagram @drmarciatate. 

Review:

“This book offers practical ideas for parents to facilitate children′s growth as they mature and develop thinking skills, including how to best work with schools without taking over for them.” -- Nic Cooper, Author of How to Keep Being a Parent...When Your Child Stops Being a Child Published On: 2011-06-08

“Written in a conversational style, the chapters flow and the information is cumulative. The author discovered the importance of the brain as it applies to learning and a successful life and then translated the information into an understandable text that is parent and teacher friendly. I love this book.” -- Patricia Baker, Teacher Published On: 2011-06-08

"After Dr. Tate presented 20 Ways to Increase Your Child’s Brain Power at our school, a father informed me he planned to re-paint his home because Dr. Tate spoke about how color influences children. How great is that? The parents were so excited about this interactive workshop! Many inquired if a date had been scheduled for Dr. Tate’s return visit." -- Charlene Christian-Andrews, Staff Development Coordinator Published On: 2011-06-17

"This book is an example of how powerful Marcia Tate’s brain-based strategies are when applied in the lives of our children. While targeting parents, her strategies are presented in a practical, down-to-earth manner that recognizes that parents are a child’s first and most enduring teachers." -- Gina Humphries, Academically/Intellectually Gifted Coordinator Published On: 2011-06-21

"Marcia Tate brings the same excitement for brain-compatible teaching strategies to parents that she has shown educators for years. She makes all of us―educators and parents alike―think about how we can help our students become successful in school and throughout their lives!" -- Kathy Bowie, Curriculum Facilitator Published On: 2011-06-21

About this edition

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1412988446
• ISBN 13: 9781412988445
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208