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Dr. Kathie F Nunley

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Kathie delights teachers from around the world with her practical and inspirational solutions to the challenges of today's diverse classrooms. Her popular seminars and workshops combine classroom experience with her current brain-imaging research. A noted speaker at state, national and international conferences, Dr. Nunley is the author of many books and articles on the brain and teaching in mixed-ability classrooms. Her work has been used by institutions and publications around the globe, including Family Circle magazine, ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Canadian Living, and the Washington Post. She is the developer of the Layered Curriculum® method of instruction and has spent over 15 years as a classroom teacher in both urban and suburban schools.
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Solving Pacing Issues with Layered Curriculum

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I have received several emails this month from teachers who are working on their Layered Curriculum units over the summer. Many of them have questions regarding pacing. It can be a challenge to learn how to determine the length of…
  • Dr. Kathie F Nunley
  • Jul 18, 2018
  • Exceptional Learners

Helping Students Who Struggle with Transition from Elementary to Secondary

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The transition between elementary or primary school and junior high school / middle school can be particularly stressful for adolescents.  In addition to the biological changes associated with this age, academic motivation is also at a low point. In fact,…
  • Dr. Kathie F Nunley
  • Jun 19, 2018
  • Psychology for Parents and Teachers

Five Best Practices for Any High School

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Years of research and visits to thousands of schools have shown there are some very simple things that can be done in any high school, large or small, urban or suburban, public or independent – that can improve student and…
  • Dr. Kathie F Nunley
  • May 11, 2018
  • Psychology for Parents and Teachers

Top Tips for Best Brain Health and Function

We have learned so much about the human brain over the last quarter century that it is at times mind-numbing (pun intended). What has emerged though are a few broad lifestyle categories that most affect how our brain functions, learns…
  • Dr. Kathie F Nunley
  • Feb 12, 2018
  • Exceptional Learners

Alternative Strategies for the Clipboard Student-Behavior-Chart

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Visit any elementary classroom and you will find at least one child (usually more) who spends his or her day with a personal behavior clipboard. The clipboard is sitting atop the child’s desk and at either predictable or random intervals,…
  • Dr. Kathie F Nunley
  • Jan 24, 2018
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Lesson Plan Design: Move the horse in front of the cart

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If you’re like most teachers, when you sit down to design your next instructional unit, you begin by coming up with activities, projects, lessons and exciting game plans for the unit. You may pull activities used in previous years, or…
  • Dr. Kathie F Nunley
  • Jan 11, 2018
  • Psychology for Parents and Teachers

Three Basic Things All Teachers Should Do to Transform Lives

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Teachers have the power to transform lives – for better or worse. It takes so little on our part to make a significant and positive difference in the lives of our students. Start the new year by practicing three very…
  • Dr. Kathie F Nunley
  • Dec 15, 2017
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Differentiating Your High School Classroom

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Despite the perceived obstacles, differentiation at the high school level is not difficult. Many of us have the mental model that differentiation belongs at the elementary level, with learning stations filled with colorful blocks and tiny chairs. But, break out…
  • Dr. Kathie F Nunley
  • Nov 28, 2017
  • Psychology for Parents and Teachers

Getting Rid of Problem Behaviors WITHOUT Punishment

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One of the most difficult tasks of parenting a child or teaching children is dealing with problem behaviors. Problem behaviors range from the simple temper tantrum exhibited by a three year old all the way up to very complex, harmful…
  • Dr. Kathie F Nunley
  • Nov 8, 2017
  • Adolescent Psychology

The Relationship of Self-Esteem and Depression In Adolescence

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Preface On May 14, 1996, a 15-year-old middle school student shot his bus driver in the leg, forced all the students off the bus and led police on a high speed chase through a residential neighborhood in Salt Lake City. The…
  • Dr. Kathie F Nunley
  • May 1, 2001
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Dr Kathie Nunley is an educational psychologist, researcher and author of several books on parenting and teaching, including A Student’s Brain (Brains.org) and the best selling, “Differentiating the High School Classroom” (Corwin Press). She is the developer of the Layered Curriculum® method of instruction and has worked with parents and educators around the world on how best to structure classrooms and schools to work with 21st century learners.

Email her: Kathie@brains.org

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