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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Maya Bialik
Maya Bialik is passionate about putting science into action in education. She has worked to translate findings from Cognitive Science for the Center for Curriculum Redesign, from Complex Systems for the New England Complex Systems Research Institute, and from Environmental Science for Uneven Earth. She holds a Master’s degree in Mind, Brain & Education from Harvard, and her background includes research in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics. Maya is a co-founder of The People’s Science, a non-profit dedicated to bridging the gap between science and society. Her upcoming book, focusing on an evidence-based analysis of the four dimensions that students should learn to be prepared for the 21st century, will be released this fall.
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- Doubting My Doubts; The Case of Gesture and Embodied Cognition |Education & Teacher Conferences on “Embodied Cognition” in Action: Using Gestures to Teach Science
- Revisiting the "Handwriting vs. Laptops" Debate: More Moving Goalposts |Education & Teacher Conferences on Handwritten Notes or Laptop Notes: A Skeptic Converted?
- The Power Of A Growth Mindset: How Students Can Overcome Challenges - Sunshine Blessings on The Rise and Fall and Rise of Growth Mindset
- Goals, Failure, and Emotions: a Conceptual Framework |Education & Teacher Conferences on “Learning from Mistakes” vs. “Learning from Explanations”
- From Destruction to Rebuilding: Hope in Science’s Down Cycle on When Analogies Go Wrong: The Benefits of Stress?
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