Chasing Sleep
It is crucial to re-work our school day to create an environment in which students can sleep well and finish the race for sleep.
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Chasing Sleep
How an Unplanned Action Research Project and a Small Dose of Vulnerability Led to Better Student-Teacher Relationships and Joy in the Classroom
Having a classroom built on trusting relationships that accepted that failure could be a part of learning led all of us to be more vulnerable and to take more risks. And this, in turn, led me to feel more comfortable letting go of more control to add more joy into the classroom.
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How an Unplanned Action Research Project and a Small Dose of Vulnerability Led to Better Student-Teacher Relationships and Joy in the Classroom
Parent Tips: Talking About Grades with Students
Help your child see that they are on a team with you and their teachers, and together, you are on a mission to figure out what their learning success strategies are.
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Parent Tips: Talking About Grades with Students
Metacognition in Action Across Disciplines
Honing metacognitive skills empowers students with self-knowledge that they can apply beyond classroom walls. But how can teachers help students gain important but under-appreciated set of skills? What does metacognition in action look like?
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Metacognition in Action Across Disciplines
The Science of Forgetting and the Art of Remembering (Part II)
It turns out, perhaps the most compelling data to support spacing and interleaving is not quantitative at all. Instead, it is the qualitative feedback from students and teachers.
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The Science of Forgetting and the Art of Remembering (Part II)
Making it Stick Better
Memory, like all brain functions, is not isolated to one region of the brain—and without it, learning does not happen. What follows is how we have translated research on memory to our respective disciplines, science and history.
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Making it Stick Better
The Science of Forgetting and The Art of Remembering
All students, even high achieving, highly motivated ones, forget huge swathes of what they learned. How can we improve this?
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The Science of Forgetting and The Art of Remembering
Developing Students’ Voices: An Intricate Part of a Student’s Lifelong Learning, Self-Confidence, and Advancement
I challenge each educator to remind students that they have the autonomy to voice whatever is on their mind because their perspective is valued and needed.
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Developing Students’ Voices: An Intricate Part of a Student’s Lifelong Learning, Self-Confidence, and Advancement
Your Checklist for Virtual Project-Based Learning
Projects are still a good way to motivate students during challenging circumstances, but we need to take care so that learning actually takes place. How can we use what we know about the science of learning to design projects that truly work?
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Your Checklist for Virtual Project-Based Learning
The Science of Keeping Kids Engaged—Even From Home
Motivating students with carrots and sticks—through endless, demoralizing cycles of high-stakes testing and assessment—is not getting us the deep learning and love of learning we desire. Fortunately there is a science of motivation, and we need to design it into the very fiber of our virtual courses.
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The Science of Keeping Kids Engaged—Even From Home