Learning is Cake!

If learning isn't cake, you need to change the ingredients . . . sometimes a few, sometimes many. And remember, even the most fabulously scrumptious cake can slide off a wobbly table!

Basic Recipe for the Learning Cake:

• Bottom layer: Body (healthy eyes, ears, arms, legs and fingers; good nutrition, hydration, sleep)
• Middle layer: Brain (healthy and appropriate brain functions and brain-body connections)
• Top layer: Behavior (healthy emotions which support appropriate social skills)

The Table and Plate
The table top and plate are the school environment: teachers who respect their students as individuals; administrators who support their teachers and set a positive rather than punitive tone for the school overall.

The table legs are your home environment.

• Leg #1: safe place; children feel valued, loved and secure
• Leg #2: education valued and teachers respected
• Leg #3: appropriate time and place for studying provided
• Leg #4: effort recognized and rewarded