# Paul Zientarski

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Brain Fact Friday on "How to Be a Neuroscience Researcher in 4 Simple Steps"

Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, for Brain Fact Friday and episode #124. If you’ve been listening to this podcast, called Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning, I’m sure you’ve made the connection with the importance of improving our social a‮…

Brain Fact Friday on "The Key Ingredients of Learning with the Brain in Mind."

Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, for Brain Fact Friday and episode #119. Hello and Welcome back! I’m Andrea Samadi, a former educator who has been fascinated with learning the science behind high performance strategies in schools, sports and the workpl‮…

Naperville Central High School's Paul Zeintarski on "Transforming Students Using Physical Education and Neuroscience"

Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, episode #121 with the former PE teacher from Naperville, IL, Paul Zientarski. Watch the interview on YouTube here. Hello and Welcome back! I’m Andrea Samadi, a former educator who has been fascinated with learning the ‮…

Brain Fact Friday on "Transforming the Mind Using Athletics and Neuroscience"

Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, for Brain Fact Friday and episode #122. This week we interviewed Paul Zientarski,[i] the former PE teacher from Naperville Central High School, who reinvented physical education using the understanding of simple neurosc‮…

Northeastern University Professor Chuck Hillman, PhD on "The Impact of Exercise on the Brain and Learning."

Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast episode #123 with Dr. Charles Hillman, whose research and brain scans on students during his time at the University of IL (from 2000-2016) provided enough science to spearhead Naperville’s Zero-hour PE program that we’ve ‮…

Brain Fact Friday on ”Transforming the Mind Using Athletics and Neuroscience”

“What makes aerobic exercise so powerful is that it’s our evolutionary method of generating that spark. It lights on fire on every level of your brain, from stoking up the neurons’ metabolic furnaces to forgiving the very structures that transmit information from one synapse to the next.” John Rat‮…

How Exercise Primes the Brain: Insights from Dr. John Ratey

Season 14, episode 375 reviews episode 116 with Dr. John Ratey, exploring how exercise and lifestyle shape brain health and learning. The episode highlights Naperville’s Zero Hour PE case study, explains how physical activity boosts attention and academic performance, and introduces BDNF (brain‮…

Move to Learn: How Movement Activates the Brain and Fuels Motivation (with Dr. Chuck Hillman and Paul Zientarski)

Season 15, Episode 397 revisits research and real-world practice showing movement is more than fitness: it activates the brain, boosts attention, enhances learning, and sustains motivation. Dr. Chuck Hillman’s studies reveal how even short bouts of exercise light up brain activity, while Paul Zien‮…

The Movement Loop: How Movement Activates the Brain for Learning, Adaptation & Performance

Welcome back to Season 16 of the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast. I'm Andrea Samadi, and this is where we bridge neuroscience, social and emotional learning, and human performance so we can create measurable improvements in our well-being, achievement, leadership, product‮…

Movement to Mastery: Closing Phase 3 of the Brain’s Operating System

<p>Episode 408 wraps Phase 3 by integrating what we learned about how movement, attention, practice, nutrition, and recovery work together to build capacity for learning and performance. Andrea Samadi reviews the movement loop—move, prepare, focus on what’s salient, encode through practice, then r‮…