Wendy Troxel: Why school should start later for teens
Wendy Troxel: Por qué el colegio debe empezar tarde para los adolescentes
Wendy Troxel specializes in behavioral treatments for insomnia and other sleep disorders. Full bio
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is fast asleep in his bed,
profundamente en su cama
deep sleep of a teenager.
y profundo de todo adolescente.
shake the poor boy awake,
al pobre chico para despertarle
like ripping off a Band-Aid,
que quitar una tirita,
just to rouse her sleeping teen.
para despertar a su hijo adolescente.
on her son's head
sobre la cabeza de su hijo
of the sleep he desperately needs
del sueño que tanto necesita
de crecimiento de un adolescente.
biological clock tells him he's ready,
su reloj biológico natural,
of his dreams --
with learning, memory consolidation
con el aprendizaje
y el procesamiento emocional.
that's being deprived of sleep.
American teenagers is an epidemic.
entre los adolescentes estadounidenses.
the eight to 10 hours of sleep per night
de ocho a diez horas cada noche
and pediatricians.
que investigan el sueño y los pediatras.
my kid's getting eight hours,"
mi niño duerme ocho horas",
the minimum recommendation.
getting a C on your report card.
contributing to this epidemic,
que contribuyen a esta epidemia
from getting the sleep they need
dormir tanto como les es necesario
su vida en las redes o en Snapchat.
around 7:30am or earlier,
las clases hacia las 7:30 o antes,
medical organizations recommend
organizaciones de la salud recomiendan
start no earlier than 8:30am.
no empiecen antes de las 8:30.
have a direct effect on how much --
qué tanto duermen...
los adolescentes estadounidenses.
American teenagers are getting.
teenagers and their parents
entre los adolescentes y sus padres
against their own bodies.
ganar contra lo que su cuerpo les pide.
in their biological clock,
un retraso en su reloj biológico
and when we feel most sleepy.
despiertos o nos sentimos más dormidos.
in the release of the hormone melatonin.
en la liberación de melatonina.
melatonin until around 11pm,
hasta las 11 pm para liberar melatonina
we see in adults or younger children.
que los adultos o los niños pequeños.
at 6am is the biological equivalent
un adolescente a las 6 de la mañana
a despertar a un adulto a las 4.
when I have to wake up at 4am,
que levantarme a las 4 de la mañana,
teenagers feel every single school day.
estadounidenses cada día en la escuela.
that we chalk up to being a teenager --
que relacionamos con la adolescencia,
laziness, depression --
la pereza, la depresión,
of chronic sleep deprivation.
a la privación crónica del sueño.
battling chronic sleep loss,
que luchan contra la falta de sueño,
is consuming large quantities of caffeine
consumiendo cafeina en grandes cantidades
de jóvenes cansados pero despejados.
of tired but wired youth.
start times know
amigables con el sueño saben
of dramatic brain development,
importante para el desarrollo cerebral
higher order thinking processes,
de pensamiento de orden superior
and good judgment.
de problemas y el discernimiento.
of brain activity that's responsible
cerebral que es responsable
and often risky behaviors
a menudo impulsivos y arriesgados
to us parents of teenagers.
los padres de estos adolescentes.
get the sleep they need,
que no duermen lo suficiente,
and behaviors suffer
efectos inmediatos y duraderos.
behavioral signs that mimic ADHD.
un comportamiento similar al TDAH.
go well beyond the classroom,
de sueño en un adolescente
of the mental health problems
a muchos de los problemas de salud mental
durante la adolescencia
la depresión y el suicidio.
Distrito Escolar Unificado de Los Angeles
from LA Unified School District,
to have used alcohol in the past month.
a consumir alcohol en el mes anterior.
30,000 high school students,
for each hour of lost sleep,
hora de sueño perdido,
in feeling sad or hopeless,
en sentirse tristes o impotentes
in teen suicide attempts.
en los intentos de suicidio.
are at increased risk
del sueño están en mayor riesgo
that plague our country,
que son una epidemia en este país
heart disease and diabetes.
cardíacas y diabetes.
of putting a sleep-deprived teen,
un joven que no ha dormido lo suficiente
su carné de conducir
or less of sleep per night
cinco o menos horas por noche
alcohol content above the legal limit.
de alcoholemia más allá del límite legal.
inicio amigables con el sueño
of later start times.
de empezar los cursos más tarde.
with that kind of certainty.
with later start times get more sleep.
más tarde, duermen más.
that if schools start later,
que si la escuela comienza tarde
despiertos hasta más tarde,
a dormir a las mismas horas
más tarde, duermen más.
by 25 percent in one district.
un 25 % en un distrito.
a dejar los estudios.
they do better academically.
mejores resultados académicos.
for reducing the achievement gap.
en la reducción de su rendimiento.
in math and reading
de lectura y pruebas de matemática
2 o 3 puntos porcentuales
by one-third fewer students,
de las clases en un tercio
in the classroom
more pleasantness from our teens,
y menos malhumorados?
de coche disminuye
algo fácil de poner en práctica.
failed to heed this call?
hemos fallado en tener esto en cuenta?
start times goes something like this:
de empezar las clases más tarde es:
a clase para los adolescentes?
start times for teenagers?
so they're ready for the real world!"
to the parent of a two-year-old,
un niño de dos años:
el jardín de infancia".
many logistical challenges.
presenta retos logísticos.
that come up in district after district,
que se presentan en todos los distritos
acerca del horario escolar.
we have to work through.
for our children,
correcto para nuestros hijos,
no earlier than 8:30am.
de la escuela intermedia y secundaria
who have made this change,
que hicieron este cambio,
are often unfounded
a menudo temores infundados
benefits for student health
de estos estudiantes,
to set our clocks back by an hour
a retrasar nuestros relojes una hora
extra hour of sleep,
hora extra de sueño
más largo y esperanzador,
para nuestros hijos
to wake up naturally,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Wendy Troxel - Sleep researcherWendy Troxel specializes in behavioral treatments for insomnia and other sleep disorders.
Why you should listen
Dr. Wendy Troxel is a Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist at RAND and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in behavioral treatments for insomnia and other sleep disorders across the lifespan. Her research is funded by the National Heart Lung Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense. Troxel's research focuses on the interface between sleep, social environment and health, as well as the implications for public policy. She is considered the leading authority on how sleep affects and is affected by close relationships.
Troxel has received several awards and honors for her research from national and international scientific societies, and her work has been published in top-tier medical and psychological journals. Her research has been widely cited in the national and international media, including print and television interviews on CBS Sunday Morning, Good Morning America, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, MSNBC and CNN, and she has a regular blog on Huffington Post. Her research on sleep was also featured in two best-selling books: Arianna Huffington's Sleep Revolution and David Randall's Dreamland, and she was a featured expert in the National Geographic documentary Sleepless in America. She has published several highly influential RAND reports on sleep loss in the US military and the global economic implications of sleep loss. She recently was one of the co-organizers and presenters at the first-ever national conference on Adolescent Sleep, Health, and School Start Times, and she will serve as guest editor on an upcoming special issue in the journal Sleep Health on adolescent sleep and school start times.
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