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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…