Thread by @etoomari

I'm excited to announce my new position as the Director of the Stanford-Synapse Brainwave Learning Center! My new role is central to a unique partnership between the Educational Neuroscience Initiative @Stanford and @SynapseSchool (an independent K-8 school).
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Since I began my training in educational #neuroscience, I have been adamant that progress in this field would require people specifically trained in #mind, #brain and #education to take positions outside of the traditional academic track & focus on challenges unique to MBE.
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We need spaces dedicated to rigorously investigating the questions at the heart of #MBE, where stakeholders (researchers, teachers, parents, administrators, and students) can work together. I am thrilled to be involved in first-of-its-kind initiative that does just that.
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As both a Stanford researcher and full-time staff at the school, I will serve as primary liaison between K-8 educators and cognitive neuroscience researchers. This work will involve simultaneously conducting educational neuroscience research using #EEG, ...
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...working with teachers to incorporate best practices from the learning sciences into classrooms, and conducting neuroscience outreach activities with the students and community.

Can't wait to dig in to this important work! #neuroscience #edneuro 5/6

Also, as I build up the Brainwave Learning Center, I would love suggestions for neuroscience/psych outreach materials, class activities, book recs for teachers (have gotten a few requests already!), and anything else that might be useful in this new initiative! #scicomm