Tag: marie howe
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Don’t forget amuse-bouche on your dopamine menu | Live Well
I love a good neurotransmitter. Glutamate, GABA, serotonin, endorphins. And the always reliable dopamine, which just plain makes you feel like this precarious life thing isn’t quite as hard as it often feels. Dopamine helps us feel pleasure and enjoy better focus, concentration, memory, sleep, mood and motivation. There’s a reason why people do super…
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Colorado Springs teacher believes in poetry as deeper way to connect
While literature is a backbone of high school curriculum, poetry might get short shrift. Not in Tiffany Wolf’s classroom. The longtime Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School teacher likes to stuff a poetry unit into her eighth-grade honors English class during the spring semester. She teaches kids how to interpret and analyze a poem and then…