Relax, heal, learn [TheNotebook.org]

Samantha Sangenito 4/13/174:00 AM

Pam Bunyon faced the 4th graders, some splayed in chairs but most arrayed on the rug before her. On the whiteboard, she showed them the outline of a human head.

Next to it were some big words for the 9- and 10-year-olds: Cortex. Amygdala. Brain stem.

Bunyon, the counselor at Powel Elementary School, was using science to help students understand their impulses and give them strategies to deal with them. “So we don’t flip out,” as she and the class put it.

[For more of this story, written by Dale Mezzacappa, go to http://thenotebook.org/article.../11/relax-heal-learn]

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