Amy Schwed is an adjunct professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz. During the past eleven years she has developed courses in how to teach reading/language arts at both primary and intermediate levels, as well as children's literature and differentiated instruction classes, plus supervised student teachers. In addition, she created and taught a graduate course, "Integrating Study Skills and Multiple Intelligences." That course, combined with a shortened version developed for in-service teacher training, was the genesis of "Brain Friendly Study Strategies "and has undergone