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Unlocking School Bias: Using Neuroscience to Improve Student Outcomes
Break through the bias barrier
What can happen in 200 milliseconds? In a word, everything. In that short time, your subconscious mind has shaped your perceptions and influenced your behaviors. In other words, you have experienced bias—for better or for worse.
Unlocking School Bias ends the confusion around bias and provides educators with research and strategies that enable them to effectively address bias in the classroom and school in appropriate and productive ways. Learn to explore your own and your students′ biases and
The latest research from psychology, education, and neuroscience
Different types of biases, including confirmation bias and impact bias, and how they manifest themselves in everyday life
Practical strategies for educators who are ready to change their and their students′ actions
How patterns in one’s environment create biases and affect the brain’s development
Implicit bias occurs subconsciously and so quickly that the conscious brain is unaware that it happened. Yet, with mindful practice and reflection, we can rewrite the automated processes in our brains, stop our subconscious minds from determining our thoughts and behaviors, and help our students feel safe and successful in school.
What can happen in 200 milliseconds? In a word, everything. In that short time, your subconscious mind has shaped your perceptions and influenced your behaviors. In other words, you have experienced bias—for better or for worse.
Unlocking School Bias ends the confusion around bias and provides educators with research and strategies that enable them to effectively address bias in the classroom and school in appropriate and productive ways. Learn to explore your own and your students′ biases and
The latest research from psychology, education, and neuroscience
Different types of biases, including confirmation bias and impact bias, and how they manifest themselves in everyday life
Practical strategies for educators who are ready to change their and their students′ actions
How patterns in one’s environment create biases and affect the brain’s development
Implicit bias occurs subconsciously and so quickly that the conscious brain is unaware that it happened. Yet, with mindful practice and reflection, we can rewrite the automated processes in our brains, stop our subconscious minds from determining our thoughts and behaviors, and help our students feel safe and successful in school.
176 pages, Paperback
Published May 14, 2025
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