School Culture and Our Ancient Brain

Students, like all humans, can adapt quickly to any environment we create for them.

If you have only taught in one school (or if all you know are the schools you attended as a student), it’s easy to take your personal experience as the norm, and maybe even as the inevitable. But as with everything else in life, the more varied your experiences are, the more your easy generalities and stereotypes tend to collapse. There may be thirteen …