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Understanding Adolescents: Emotion, Reason, and the Brain
Kurt Fischer — who helped create Learning and the Brain, and the entire field of…
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Let’s Get Practical: Signaling a Growth Mindset
Most teachers know about Mindset Theory: the idea that students’ beliefs about intelligence shape their success…
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Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion...
Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion takes a refreshing look at…
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How Do Experts Think?
Perhaps you’ve heard the saying: “To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” It means,…
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Teachers’ Gestures Can Help Students Learn
Over the years, I’ve written about the importance of “embodied cognition.” In other words: we…