The must-have tools for all research-informed educators
The MBE Placemat

The Elementary Roadmap

Who is this for?
Middle and High School educators, although some aspects are applicable to Elementary educators
What topics are covered?
- Curriculum Design and Pedagogy
- Multiple Modalities
- Instruction
- Engagement and Motivation
- Spacing and Interleaving
- Formative Assessment
- Memory and Cognitive Load
- Feedback
- Learning Environment and Student Well-being
- Emotion and Cognition
- Minimizing classroom threats
- Balancing stress
- Combining joy and rigor
- Choice, play and down time
- Student Achievement and Lifelong Learning
- Executive Functioning
- Metacognition
- Resilience and Determination
Who is this for?
Elementary educators, although some aspects are applicable to Middle and High School educators
What topics are covered?
- Literacy
- Priming the young brain for reading
- Learning the code
- Building fluency
- Finding meaning
- Numeracy
- Priming the brain for numeracy
- Teaching the tools
- Building proficiency
- Cultivating mathematical creativity
- Curriculum Design and Pedagogy
- Prioritizing play, choice, and creativity
- Multiple Modalities
- Making learning meaningful
- Instruction for retention, engagement, and understanding
- Memory and Cognitive Load
- Spacing and Interleaving
- Feedback
- Learning Environment and Student Well-being
- Emotion and Cognition
- Minimizing classroom threats
- Balancing stress
- Combining joy and rigor
- Habits of Achievement and Lifelong Learning
- Executive Functioning
- Metacognition
- Promoting Academic Resilience
How can this tool help me?
The MBE Placemat and the Elementary Roadmap can help you…- Set MBE-focused professional development goals for the school year
- Fill gaps in curriculum planning
- Design an action research project
- Actively apply your MBE knowledge into your classroom practice