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Teaching Strategies

Cognitive Load on My Mind

If we are going to be successful teachers, particularly this upcoming year, we need to manage the demands we place on our students’ active working memory.

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July 29, 2021

Teaching Strategies

Make the feedback loop your 2021 teaching takeaway

From our own Christine Lewis, here's your guide to making feedback more meaningful for you and your students.

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May 25, 2021

Hybrid Learning / Teaching Strategies

Prioritizing Play: Why it matters in elementary classrooms as we emerge from COVID-19

Strategically incorporating structured and unstructured play into your lessons can help foster resilience and accelerate learning recovery.

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April 23, 2021

Teaching Strategies

Balancing Stress as a Strategy for Learning Achievement in 2021

Somehow, knowing others have found a pathway of healing and resilience after disaster gives me the energy I need to rise out of these current circumstances and forge forward with our students in my wake, carried on by the force of my will and a toolkit of good evidence-based strategies.

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March 23, 2021

Hybrid Learning / Research in Practice / Teaching Strategies

Interleaving: One Strategy to Recover Lost Learning

Instead of thinking about what we are not teaching, let’s take this opportunity to focus on what is truly important in our subjects and endeavor to teach it in ways that make it durable, usable and flexible in the minds of our students.

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March 11, 2021

Research in Practice / Think Differently and Deeply

Planting Seeds of Kindness: It All Begins in Preschool

Practicing kindness not only makes us feel good, it helps children strengthen peer relationships, increases prosocial behaviors, happiness, self-esteem, gratitude, and well-being.

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March 4, 2021

Research in Practice / Think Differently and Deeply

Thinking Through Art

When emphasis is given to the process and not the end product, “artists” and novices alike can harness the language of visual art as a tool for rigorous inquiry. Drawing can help us think.

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February 4, 2021

Research in Practice / Think Differently and Deeply

Planners for Executive Functioning

The act of physically writing something may be the best way for most students both to remember their assignments and improve their executive functioning skills.

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January 28, 2021

News

New Jersey School First in the Nation to Reach CTTL MBE Milestone

Far Hills Country Day School faculty completes all 12 Neuroteach Global micro-courses and is now Level 1 Credentialed by The CTTL.

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January 25, 2021

Research in Practice / Think Differently and Deeply

Using Creative Writing to Improve Memory

When we invite students to engage with a text through creative writing, we boost the potential for the characters and stories to be embedded in a student's long-term memory.

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January 19, 2021