Observe your students’ behaviors. Observe their learning style preference. Do they prefer listening to instruction? Do they prefer visuals that illustrate the information? Are they excited to try out the information with movement and hands-on exploration? What are...

The 4BELS is a process. Most effective instruction is following the process from BELS1 introduction to BELS3 and BELS4 completions. Each step adds to an emotionally safe learning environment that strengthens each student’s motivation and self-pride. Too much...

Teachers reading the 4BELS have asked how this process is different from past theorists and instruction. An important purpose of 4BELS is to ensure that we are using instructional strategies that are ‘brain-friendly’ according to the latest brain research. Past...

“Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think.” - Albert EinsteinThe best way to train your mind to think is to be aware of continually connecting the right and left hemispheres. You may be more comfortable with left-brain facts,...

The 4BELS process and information is relevant for everyone interested in learning about their brain and better understand the behaviors of those surrounding them. We rarely connect the way a person’s brain is structured with daily behaviors, both in good and bad...

Congratulations to the teachers and assisting staff at A Childs World Schools in Bucks County, PA. Once again, they are rated with national accreditation for maintaining the highest quality in early childhood education. Teachers at ACW are proud educators of the 4BELS...

The recipe for progress is when we take the ingredients of what we know and add the spices of new knowledge. We mix the old with the new in our brain. It bakes with exploration and inspiration and turns into the solutions that nourish our lives. A 4BELS instructional...

I have a vision that ignorance can be overcome with the awareness that education is the solution. It is the solution to comprehending a world where peace is achieved by listening and learning from all points of view. Let’s create classrooms where the vision is for...

We hear that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Let’s say that happiness is in the way we feel in the environment that surrounds us because happiness is also in the eyes of the beholder. The story begins with a human standing in a room that is filled with color....

Humans have a miraculous brain with unlimited potential. Education nourishes the miracle that is our brain. Be aware of your brain’s experiences. It is learning from the world that surrounds you. It is learning from the many written books of different perspectives. It...