Giving Compass' Take:

· In this Getting Smart podcast, Tom Vander Ark talks with Pam Cantor, a leading expert on childhood development, about the effects of stress on youth development and how to positively impact children's cognitive development.

· What effect does stress have on a child's development and how can educators help? What factors influence a child's cognitive development?

· Check out this article to learn more about early childhood development and brain science.

In today’s episode, Tom Vander Ark is speaking with Pamela Cantor, M.D., a leading expert on childhood development. Dr. Cantor has practiced child psychiatry for nearly two decades and originally studied the impact of trauma on childhood development at Cornell. After 9/11, New York City asked her and others to co-lead a study on the impact of trauma from 9/11 on NYC schoolchildren. The experience inspired her to launch Turnaround for Children, a non-profit provider of tools and services for schools to support how students learn, especially children that have experienced trauma, of which Dr. Cantor is the founder and Sr. Science Advisor. Dr. Cantor appears in Edutopia’s How Learning Happens video series, which has over eight million views to date, alongside colleague Linda Darling-Hammond.

Listen in as Dr. Cantor talks to Tom about the impact of stress on children, childhood development, productive practices that unlock brain chemistry that can counter the toxic effects of stress, and how educators can help positively impact a child’s cognitive development. Dr. Cantor also speaks about Turnaround for Children and the impact they have on children; Building Blocks for Learning, Turnaround for Children’s framework; and her thoughts on a variety of topics from modeling regulation, maker space, and movement breaks to mindfulness, malleability, and mindset.

Read the full article about childhood development by Tom Vander Ark at Getting Smart