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Should Students Annotate Their Texts? A Research Perspective
A few years ago, I visited an English Department meeting at a well-known high school….
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Making Room for Impact by Arran Hamilton, John Hattie, and...
Time to make time to teach effectively and efficiently by digging into your practice with…
Summer Plans: How Best to Use the Next Few Weeks
The summer stretches before you like a beach of relaxing joy. With a guilty-pleasure novel…
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The Best Ways to Use ‘One-Pagers’
In recent years, our field has seen a great increase in ‘one-pagers’: handy summaries of…
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Piece-by-Piece PowerPoint: Exploring the “Dynamic Drawing Principle”
The plan for this blog post: First: I’ll describe a particular teaching practice — one…
Research Advice That’s New + Useful: Improve Learning by Reappraising...
Research benefits teachers if it gives us new, useful ideas. We can feel relief and…