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Should Students Annotate Their Texts? A Research Perspective

Andrew Watson
by: Andrew Watson
Posted on: June 30, 2024

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...

Erik Jahner, PhD
by: Erik Jahner, PhD
Posted on: June 24, 2024

Time to make time to teach effectively and efficiently by digging into your practice with…

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Summer Plans: How Best to Use the Next Few Weeks

Andrew Watson
by: Andrew Watson
Posted on: June 23, 2024

The summer stretches before you like a beach of relaxing joy. With a guilty-pleasure novel…

The Best Ways to Use ‘One-Pagers’

Andrew Watson
by: Andrew Watson
Posted on: June 16, 2024

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”

Andrew Watson
by: Andrew Watson
Posted on: June 9, 2024

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...

Andrew Watson
by: Andrew Watson
Posted on: June 2, 2024

Research benefits teachers if it gives us new, useful ideas. We can feel relief and…

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Change My Mind, Please!

Andrew Watson
by: Andrew Watson
Posted on: May 26, 2024

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”

Andrew Watson
by: Andrew Watson
Posted on: May 19, 2024

Back in February, I wrote about the “Jigsaw method” of teaching. In this strategy, teachers…

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Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

Erik Jahner, PhD
by: Erik Jahner, PhD
Posted on: May 17, 2024

From the author of The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, and The…

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Updating the Great Cold-Call Debate: Does Gender Matter?

Andrew Watson
by: Andrew Watson
Posted on: May 11, 2024

Edu-Twitter predictably cycles through a number of debates; in recent weeks, the Great Cold-Call Debate…