Adolescence, Rewired.

The adolescent brain is still doing what it has always done, prioritizing belonging and testing identity against the world, but the world it is testing against now includes a constant stream of comparison and feedback that no earlier generation of teenagers ever had to metabolize. This module updates a teacher's understanding of adolescent neurology for that reality, so behavior that looks like new fragility can be read instead as an old developmental task, operating under genuinely new conditions.

• Why belonging and identity-testing remain the two central tasks of adolescent neurology.
• What has specifically changed about the conditions adolescence now unfolds inside.
• How to read a behavior as an old developmental task under new pressure, rather than a new kind of problem.
• One practical classroom shift that meets adolescent belonging needs more directly.