Hey marcusesses, I'm going to recommend you another book, if you haven't already stumbled across it: Daniel Willingham's Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions about How the Mind Works and What it Means for the Classroom.
My copy of the book is a little hard to read... something about the combination of tiny font and a bit of a convoluted writing style, but the information jam-packed into the book is actually research-based, and yet imminently practical. Also provides a refreshing counterpoint to some of the supposedly 'brain-based' teaching practices that sound great (who doesn't want to "strengthen neural pathways"?!) but which aren't really based on a thorough understanding of the brain (e.g., strengthening neural pathways you don't use for a specific task won't help you complete that task; it's a bit like trying to fix a pothole-riddled road by repaving all the other streets in the neighborhood).
(Don't mean to pick on the article, BTW... much of it was interesting, and I especially liked the section on Emotion Dynamics -- I literally just posted a comment yesterday about how emotions and thought are "radically interconnected.")