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Getting Bossy about Jigsaws; “Don’t Fence Us In”
Back in February, I wrote about the “Jigsaw method” of teaching. In this strategy, teachers…
Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
From the author of The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, and The…
Updating the Great Cold-Call Debate: Does Gender Matter?
Edu-Twitter predictably cycles through a number of debates; in recent weeks, the Great Cold-Call Debate…
Can students “catch” attention? Introducing “Attention Contagion”
Every teacher knows: students won’t learn much if they don’t pay attention. How can we…