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The Rare Slam Dunk? Blue Light Before Bed
I spend A LOT of time on this blog debunking “research-based” certainties. No, handwriting isn’t…
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When Experience Contradicts Research: The Problem with Certainty
A friend recently told me about his classroom experience using mindfulness to promote thoughtful and…
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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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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…
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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…
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Change My Mind, Please!
When was the last time you changed your mind about something important? Perhaps you rethought…
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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…
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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…