“Drawing from neuroscience, the handbook provides fresh conceptual anchors to the assertion that all educators (including management/business educators) are ‘learning scientists’ (p. xviii) who need to have extensive pedagogical content knowledge – which integrates an in-depth understanding of the mind and how the brain can effectively facilitate learning in the digital space.”
—Academy of Management Learning & Education
“This handbook starts and never stops pursuing the core of professional learning through combining the mind, the brain, and the teaching to design online learning experiences. The coverage is at once comprehensive, clear, compelling, and rare in combining depth and practicality. It is concise, enabling deep learning to come alive through the gateways to learning that Tokuhama-Espinosa so adeptly opens and guides the reader into, but ultimately and appropriately expects the reader to probe and extend. . . . Read this book, above all, use and develop the ideas, and you will find how quickly Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa jumped on and got ahead of the curve.”
—From the Foreword by Michael Fullan, professor emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
“A must-read handbook for K–20+ educators teaching online.”
—Kristen Betts, clinical professor, Drexel University
“There has never been a better time to be an educator. Here is a must-have handbook on how to be a better one, with 40 evidence-informed pedagogies from the learning sciences to help all teachers create successful learning experiences for their students.”
—Olivia Fleming, founder, OneHE
“The COVID-19 pandemic has done nothing but accelerate a process in which the education world increasingly asserts itself in digital and online learning technologies. Dr. Tokuhama-Espinosa is known for bringing the neuroscience of learning to the classroom. This book is an excellent and timely resource that provides teachers at any educational level with pedagogical tools based on learning and brain research to be used in online, face-to-face, or hybrid contexts.”
—Gilberto Pinzón, founder, Education First; chair of neuroeducation, University of Barcelona
“This is a practical guide for teachers, solidly grounded in the neuroscience of learning, and it delivers concepts in a way that empowers teachers to incorporate them into their teaching practice. Dr. Tokuhama-Espinosa has taken the opportunities thrust upon us by a global crisis, the pandemic, to pause and rethink how we can best educate learners using the knowledge amassed over the last several years in the field of neuroscience. We often hear of bridging the gap between neuroscience and education. Dr. Tokuhama-Espinosa has joined these fields, and the product is an enriched and enhanced learning experience. The way she constructs the teaching of the concepts mirrors what the teachers are guided to do for their students—a beautiful symmetry. The way she writes is very engaging and accessible with the concepts gradually emerging—I feel immersed in an adventure of learning and discovery. This book should be required reading for every teacher as part of their teacher training, as the principles are universal to all teaching practice. I love how Dr. Tokuhama-Espinosa is so respectful of everyone involved in this process of rethinking how we educate learners and brings us all onboard to engage in the process. I feel so optimistic and encouraged.”
—Barbara Arrowsmith-Young, author and lecturer
“Tracey’s book is just what teachers and school leaders need. It informs how educators will leverage the most promising neuroscience research to better design online teaching and learning experiences and integrate educational technologies that enhance the academic, social, and emotional development of all students.”
—Glenn Whitman, history teacher, dean of studies and director, Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School
“This text is right on time for the dramatic global transition in education from in-class to blended online learning and teaching. Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa is a one-of-a-kind thinker and writer, offering us 40 discrete, dynamic, evidence-based teaching practices grounded securely in the sciences of mind, brain, and education research. Inspired and informed by her own experiences teaching online, Tracey's comprehensive work is engaging, inspiring, and challenging as she guides us through how the virtual learning environment opens up a new world for teachers and learners alike in this new age.”
—David Hyerle, director, Thinking Schools International
“In the last two decades, the enormous growth in our understanding of the brain through developments in neuroscience has been a driver of change in a new understanding of the biology of learning. Now, the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced a paradigm shift in both teaching and learning. This timely and exciting book integrates concepts from neuroscience with tools in the online teaching environment to provide a new way of thinking in the delivery of education. This book is an essential resource in the design and implementation of educational programs.”
—Pankaj Sah, director, ARC Science of Learning Research Centre, University of Queensland
