Neuroeducamente blog

Photo by Suzer Jones on Foter.com / CC BY-NC   During a period of almost a decade I had the opportunity to learn about toxic stress on a personal level. Not that it had me as a target, my stress levels have always remained at the tolerable threshold, and that has made me very appreciative for the wealth of opportunities I had been granted since inception. What I am about to describe took place while I worked voluntarily as a teacher of English to many groups of very low SES students from 10 to 18 years of age who were part of an NGO (non-governmental office) that catered to their various – and multiple – needs in tandem with their regular schooling (when that happened). The case in point is about a girl, let’s call her Luisa, about 11 years old but very much underdeveloped physically and cognitively for her age bracket. Luisa was one among five siblings who lived miserably in a slum located in the south zone of São Paulo, Brazil. She had no sanitation, nor regular electricit