Marcus Conyers

}} 'Dr ''Marcus Conyers''' is an author and developer of graduate degree programs focused on improving leading and learning by bridging mind, brain, and implementation research to practice. Conyers is the coauthor, with Donna Wilson, of 20 books in this field, including ''Smarter Teacher Leadership: Neuroscience and the Power of Purposeful Collaboration'' (Teachers College Press, 2016), ''Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains: Metacognitive Strategies, Activities and Lesson Ideas'' (ASCD, 2016), ''Positively Smarter: Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well-Being'' (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), ''Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice'' (Teachers College Press, 2020), and ''Flourishing in the First Five Years: Connecting Implications from Mind, Brain, and Education Research to the Development of Young Children'' (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013).

Conyers is the lead developer of the doctoral minor in Brain-Based Leadership and co-developer of the Master of Science and Educational Specialist degree programs with a major in Brain-Based Teaching with the Abraham S. Fischler School of Education at Nova Southeastern University. Conyers serves as a subject matter supervisor for the Ph.D. in Professional Practice: Psychological Perspectives with Canterbury Christ Church University. Conyers presents at leadership and educational conferences in the United States and internationally and blogs regularly on Edutopia and Edweek. Conyers is co-founder of the nonprofit Center for Innovative Education and Prevention (CIEP) and founder of BrainSMART. Provided by Wikipedia