Teen Brain: The Musical

Here's a great story about a teen using their brain to change the world for the better!

Path of recovery: Out of teen’s brain injury comes ingenuity, determination to help others A local college student continuing his recovery from a traumatic brain injury is embarking on an ambitious fundraising effort to help others in the same situation. Cameron Fathauer, 19, has started an online fundraising effort on GoFundMe to create a nonprofit organization, The Voice of TBI. A missi...

Dramatic Publishing has a new, easy-to-use website, making it even easier to sample and license "Teen Brain: The Musical!" Woo hoo!

http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/teen-brain-the-musical

Teen Brain: The Musical At last it's Friday night for eight teens! After careening through a stressful week of schoolwork, difficult choices and drama surrounding family and friends, they're ready for an unchaperoned party. The impulsive decisions of all eight young people resul

In 60 minutes of nonstop action, Teen Brain: The Musical explores the problem solving and decision making challenges teen face, with modern music and fun, edgy dialogue.

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The Teen Brain: Behavior, Problem Solving, and Decision Making Many parents do not understand why their teenagers occasionally behave in an impulsive, irrational, or dangerous way. At times, it seems like they don???t think things through or fully consider the consequences of their actions. Adolescents differ fr

Just like in Teen Brain: The Musical, teens look to each other to guide behavior, and not necessarily to their parents or teachers:
lhttp://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2015/04/young_teens_look_to_older_kids_risk.html

Is It Safe? Young Teens Look to Older Kids, Not Adults, for Advice on Risky Situations For young adolescents, peers' views on the risk of an activity can be more important than their own, a new study suggests.

This cool article compares the teen brain to the bridge of the Starship Enterpriese:
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/03/11/npr-teen-brain

The teen brain: Spock vs. Captain Kirk Adolescents get a bad rep for being irrational. The bad news is: It's kinda deserved. The good news is: Every teen brain comes equipped with an internal Mr. Spock, trying to keep them safe.

"Scary" is one way to describe the teen brain....We prefer "a work in progress"

http://www.macleans.ca/society/life/inside-your-teenagers-scary-brain/

Inside your teenager’s scary brain - Macleans.ca New research shows incredible cognitive potential—and vulnerability—during adolescence. For parents of teenagers, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

First High School Production of TEEN BRAIN opens this weekend at Tuscarora High school in Frederick, MD!!!!! Happy Opening!!!!!!!!!

The closing song from "Teen Brain: The Musical". Check out our Soundcloud page for other cool tracks!

05 When I Was Small A reflective, slow ballad about how innocent life was when teens were younger.

Check out the trailer for Teen Brain: The Musical and our Youtube channel....

Teen Brain: The Musical Trailer From Linda Daugherty, the author of "The Secret Life of Girls" and Nick Martin, composer of "The Milford Project" comes a new musical about friendship, choic...

SONYA. How long you think Spivey’s been cheating on Ashley?
J.J. Like a week.
(SONYA and TERRI look at him, annoyed.)
TERRI. How do you know that?
J.J. I’m friends with the girl he’s cheating with. And she’s been posting pictures of him on her wall since Monday.
TERRI. Who is she?!
SONYA (overlapping). How do you know her?!
J.J. All-state band. Goes to Roosevelt. Plays the clarinet.
TERRI. The clarinet?! You’ve got to be kidding! (Disgusted,
looking at her cellphone.) And look, you “liked” her post, J.J.!
J.J. Hey, we both play the clarinet.

Turns out listening to loud, aggressive, angry music can actually help teens with self expression and identity formation.

Teens and Music: Noise or Necessary? Music's central role in identity formation