 Hi, my name is Tracy Tokahama-Spinosa and welcome to Whatever Teachers Should Know About Brains. This course is going to cover six principles and 21 tenets from Mind, Brain, and Education Science and we're really excited to be able to share and explore this information with you coming semester. We want to invite you to explore the course room a little bit just before you get in before we actually start together, mainly because we're going to challenge you to think about how you think people think. And part of this new way of thinking about how we think we think has to do with the structure of how the information is delivered or the way that we run a class. We're going to be conducting our class in a flipped model. This means that a lot of the things you might think of as coming afterwards actually happen beforehand. For example, all of the homework and homework consists of different things like quizzes which are not used to give you a summative grade but rather to be a part of a formative vision of what did I know as a baseline. After I've learned some things now, what can I do with the information? There are discussion boards as well. Discussion boards are not meant to sort of check your knowledge of the readings or videos but they're rather meant to build community. So basically the idea of flipping gives us a lot more space to explore the material and depth when we are together but it also means that you have to come very prepared for the course. So we want to invite you to jump into the course, have a look at these three different steps. What you do before you come to class, how you get into the live class and what you do after the live class by logging in early and having a look around our courseroom structure. As we go through the eight modules together, we're also going to be challenging you throughout to think about the risk and protective factors in your own life and also in the lives of your students to really try to personalize the way the teaching and learning occurs. So with that, welcome to the course. If you have any doubts or questions before we start, go ahead and send me an email looking forward to working with you.