Edthena

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ve rounded up four resources that provide best practices for improving school culture, including how psychological safety is crucial for educators and strategies for valuing and supporting teachers. This ASCD blog post doesn’t beat around the bush when it comes to the critical role school leaders play in shaping school culture.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The challenge, then, for PD is to use these levers to secure engagement (note: this is not about some rather sinister form of psychological manipulation to ‘trick’ people into engaging or getting buy-in; it’s about finding ways to explicitly show that people’s perceived individual needs are actually in alignment with whole-school goals).

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JUNE 22, 2024

I’ve consumed a huge amount of books, blogs, articles, webinars, videos and live presentations or demonstrations and nearly all of them portray examples that are incredibly similar to one another. Not every problem a teacher faces is about classroom management (although these probably account for a lot more than we might realise).

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 30, 2025

Recently, on my podcast Unpacking the Backpack , I discussed the shift to a transformational mindset in detail after revisiting a blog post I wrote in 2022. You can also read the original blog post HERE. Mindset: The new psychology of success. The key to classroom management. Random House. Teachers College Press.

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Jonathan Firth

MAY 30, 2017

Meanwhile, a lot of the research evidence from cognitive psychology in areas such as working memory and learning is based on laboratory studies with university students. Dunlosky et al (2013) The authors are psychologists and memory researchers, and this paper reviews a number of different findings from cognitive psychology.

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