#62. 'Apathetic' teenagers, post-pandemic classrooms, and finding all the glimmers with Dr Lori Desautels

The Unteachables Podcast

On today's episode I speak to the brilliant Dr Lori Desautels to answer one of the big behaviour questions I am often asked...
What's going on with apathetic teenage behaviour?!
As well as this, we speak about:

• Neuroplasticity and why it is crucial for teachers to have an understanding around.
• How we can transform the experiences and education of our students in the smallest of moments, in the day to day 'touch points'.
• How you can foster a classroom environment where students feel a sense of trust and emotional safety.
• The impact of the pandemic on the emotional wellbeing of our students and how this manifests in challenging classroom behaviours
• Plus so much more

I am so excited to bring you this episode. Dr Lori Desautels is an absolute wealth of knowledge and experience, and is a true leader in education.
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Dr Lori Desautels has been an Assistant Professor at Butler University since 2016 where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate programs in the College of Education. Lori was also an Assistant Professor at Marian University in Indianapolis for 8 years where she founded the Educational Neuroscience Symposium that has now reached thousands of educators and is in its 10th year. Lori’s passion is engaging her students through the social and relational neurosciences as it applies to education by integrating the Applied Educational Neuroscience framework, and its learning principles and practices into her coursework at Butler. The Applied Educational Neuroscience Certification, created by Lori in 2016, is specifically designed to meet the needs of educators, counselors, clinicians and administrators who work beside children and adolescents who have, and are, experiencing adversity and trauma. The certification is now global and has reached hundreds of educators.

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