If you want students to learn, they need to feel they belong
When it comes to understanding the connection between emotion and memory, poet and author Maya Angelou’s words sum it up well: “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Research reveals the same. We remember what stirs emotion in us and when students feel good at school, they do better because, as Louis Cozolino explains in Nine Things Educators Need to Know about the Brain, our
