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Monthly Archives: December 2018
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New Research: Personal Best Goals (Might) Boost Learning
Some research-based suggestions for teaching require a lot of complex changes. (If you want to…
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Bit by Bit, Putting It Together
Over at Teacherhead, Tom Sherrington has posted a form that teachers can use for lesson plans….
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New Year, New Habits: More Learning!
When the school year starts back up in January, teachers would LOVE to use this…
A Festive Holiday Present for You
We don’t focus a lot on seasonal cues here at the blog, but… Given that…
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Escaping the “Inquiry vs. Direct Instruction” Debate
If you’d like to stir up a feisty argument at your next faculty meeting, lob…
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World...
How often do you read in a deep and sustained way fully immersed, even transformed,…
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Unambiguously Good News about Teens and Sleep
You read that right. I mean: it’s really good news about teens and sleep. We all…
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When Multitasking Helps (And Why Teachers Should Discourage It Anyway)
We all know that multitasking is baaaaad. In fact, we all know that multitasking doesn’t…
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Brain Research in Translation
Science relies on skepticism, so let’s ask a skeptical question: “Does it really benefit teachers…