Brain Exercise Regimen

Do you feel like your brain muscles are lacking? Wondering what type of fitness program to put together for your brain muscles? Consider learning how to put together a simple academic "Publication Outline". You will exercise neurons and build synapses in places you didn't even know could connect. You will also take a deep dive into your long term memory, and try to cram it all into your short term memory long enough to make ideas coherent. This is long term training, not short term.

The warm up consists of several different pieces that you have to collectively gather into one solid stretch known as a "topic". Then comes the cardio portion-the bulk involves chasing after larger ideas that are all singularly comprised of many smaller pieces. You are running along and catching ideas like a fully developed innovation plan, creating significant learning environments, developing a growth mindset, utilizing digital tools, implementing organizational change, to name a few. Then, figuring out how to make professional learning actually matter, digging into what the research says, and throwing in some action research. All the while trying to communicate it in a cohesive way for others to understand. Remember to stop for water along the way and check your heart rate.

Next we follow up with some strength and conditioning. You must figure out where exactly your publication will fit in the wild world of educational writing. Then once you have figured that out, you must research all the submission guidelines for each place.

After all of that, you are definitely ready for the post workout cool down... because by this point you have most likely done 3 reps or so of this workout per day to get your brain into tip-top shape, and now it's time to submit the results (Draft Version ???) to your trainer (professor) after your agreed upon length of time. Then the trainer will evaluate where you were to where you are and push you (through honest feedback) to where you need to be...

Repeat this process and your brain will be in tip top shape to write for an academic publication with a whole lot of encouragement from your collaboration group!