This start-up guide for instructors and helpers provides written information and a video tutorial that overviews session structure and accompanying documents. It provides tips for teaching these plug-and-play lessons (sessions) with ease while creating meaningful, positive culture-building experiences. 

Investigates ways of thinking that make people happy and successful. Explores the differences between growth and fixed mindsets, and why growth mindset thinking works much better for learning and getting good grades. Examines other mindsets—persistence, curiosity, optimism (and its difference from pessimism) and healthy expectations for academic and other success—and how they support good lives and good learning. Introduces goal setting and provides ways to deal with grade pressure. 

Unveils common learning myths in a short class game followed by exploring how brains learn as well as common learning detours to avoid. Provides top tips for learning, memory, studying, test preparation, and achieving good grades based on the science of learning. 

Shows how brains and bodies function best with enough sleep, good nutrition, hydration, exercise, and limits on entertainment media. Spells out healthy versus unhealthy dietary fats, healthy complex carbohydrates versus simple carbs, the value of protein, and how to combine good carbohydrates with proteins for brain-healthy snacks.