Teacher Testimonials
Grey Matters was a helpful documentary for teachers to make connections between brain research and practical classroom applications. Educators are able to view different student engagement strategies and teaching approaches at various grade levels that are simple and can be easily implemented without additional planning or time constraints. This video is very helpful to begin exploring and learning about brain research in order to help build positive classroom environments and increase student engagement.
Janel Milana, School Improvement at Syracuse City School District
“We love this!” “Can we do another one!” Who would believe this is the response I receive when I tell my students it is time to learn vocabulary, but it is! After watching the Grey Matters Documentary and learning a brain targeted approach to teaching vocabulary I returned to my class and tried it immediately. My students loved it! They learned new words, ask to use it with all unfamiliar words, used the words in context and are remembering them over a month later! Highly engaged students, increased opportunities for dialogue, students retaining information and working on a district goal! What more could a teacher want?
Nancy Stauber, Grade 3 teacher, Pavilion Central School District
As an educator, I found Grey Matters to be an informative documentary that has piqued my interest in exploring more about how the brain functions and its implications for my classroom. This film has helped me to realize that the more we know about how the brain learns the better equipped we are to motivate our students to succeed.
Chris Hawthorne, Early Elementary, Oneida City School District
Grey Matters was a reassuring look into the continuing push for educators to incorporate student individuality into their teaching practice. Education is important and we want students to remain invested and engaged.
Danielle Jeffrey, Early Elementary Education
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Janel Milana, School Improvement at Syracuse City School District
“We love this!” “Can we do another one!” Who would believe this is the response I receive when I tell my students it is time to learn vocabulary, but it is! After watching the Grey Matters Documentary and learning a brain targeted approach to teaching vocabulary I returned to my class and tried it immediately. My students loved it! They learned new words, ask to use it with all unfamiliar words, used the words in context and are remembering them over a month later! Highly engaged students, increased opportunities for dialogue, students retaining information and working on a district goal! What more could a teacher want?
Nancy Stauber, Grade 3 teacher, Pavilion Central School District
As an educator, I found Grey Matters to be an informative documentary that has piqued my interest in exploring more about how the brain functions and its implications for my classroom. This film has helped me to realize that the more we know about how the brain learns the better equipped we are to motivate our students to succeed.
Chris Hawthorne, Early Elementary, Oneida City School District
Grey Matters was a reassuring look into the continuing push for educators to incorporate student individuality into their teaching practice. Education is important and we want students to remain invested and engaged.
Danielle Jeffrey, Early Elementary Education
Have you seen the film? Add your voice to the conversation. Send us an email or fill in the contact form.
Student feedback
This is feedback submitted from Mrs. Stauber's Grade 3 Vocabulary class:
I LOVE THIS! This is the best way to learn vocabulary. I learned so many new words.It was a really fun way to learn vocabulary! It is so cool! I noticed sometimes learning vocabulary can be fun. Kiana
I thought that it was amazing instead of saying that my cat was crazy I could say that she was frantic I really like what Mrs.Stauber taught me. From Trent
Loved it! I can't believe the grey matter Documentary really worked. I still remember all the words Mrs.Stauber taught me like Explicit and Loquacious. The Grey Matters Documentary is so awesome every person in the world should know how to do this!!!
This is Brooklyn. When my teacher came to school and said we were going to learn vocabulary all of the students in my class didn’t know vocabulary until Mrs.Stauber showed us the new vocabulary. We loved it. It helped us learn. It's a great vocabulary. What my teacher taught us saved my life from not knowing vocabulary.
I loved the vocabulary because I loved learning new words, and drawing the pictures. I LOVE Vocabulary.
Daela, Grade 3 student, Pavilion Central School District
“WOW’’! “Mrs. Stauber how did you find this vocab site? It is awesome! I love it! Can we do another one? Sure! When I heard Mrs. Stauber say go do this I said “okay”. I thought this would be another good fun activity, which it was.
Eli
“I love it!” Instead of our teacher telling us to look a word up in a dictionary we get to guess what it means. It’s a fun way of learning! I remember it by how fun it is and it’s a way of learning. Who knew that learning could be fun? I like everything about it. I even like the part where you draw what you think it is. Now I absolutely LOVE vocabulary.
Kiara, Third Grade Classroom Pavilion Central School District
I loved the drawing part in what Mrs. Stauber showed us. It was so awesome that I just could not wait for the next one.
Rev
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