Food for Thought: Building on our understanding for GBWD

I hope you all enjoyed GBWD. In the build-up to this GBWD, and information about our brain, stress, and anxiety, I watched several short videos to support thinking behind the documentary Angst. Hence, this week's Food For Thought is three short videos, that I watched over the past few months that you might find interesting. Listening to Dr. Bill Mitchell, Dr Miguel, and watching Matthew Walker, Screenagers, and Angst it has become even clearer to me how inter-related all the aspects of wellbeing are to each other and most importantly how we need to teach our students and our selves that we have control  over our lives, and that we need to stop blaming external factors like work as the cause of our ill-health. 

3 Tips for dealing with stress.

In this video, Joe Piscatella provides 3 tips for dealing with stress. They are short and succinct and align perfectly with previous Food for Thoughts and our philosophies at ISHCMC.

How does stress affect a child’s development and academic potential?

Understanding cognitive development and stress in children can add context to systems of education.

Much of the growth of the human brain happens after birth. While unrelenting stress can damage developing structures of the limbic system, the calibrated challenge can positively stimulate brain growth. Teachers have an important role in assuring students of their safety when taking on new challenges.

Pamela Cantor, M.D. practiced child psychiatry for nearly two decades, specializing in trauma. She founded Turnaround for Children after co-authoring a study on the impact of the 9/11 attacks on New York City schoolchildren. She is a Visiting Scholar in Education at Harvard University and a leader of the Science of Learning and Development Alliance.

You’re Wired for Anxiety. And You’re Wired to Handle It

Dr. Anne Marie Albano, Director of Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders, traces the biological and evolutionary origins of anxiety, the unique features of anxiety in the 21st
century, and the powerful research and tech-driven treatments that have emerged in recent decades.