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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…



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Can students “catch” attention? Introducing “Attention Contagion”

Every teacher knows: students won’t learn much if they don’t pay attention. How can we…



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