The Effortful Educator

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

I have written pretty extensively about when, why, and how I infuse retrieval practice into my high school classroom. More concretely, if I ask students in my psychology course to describe one theory of motivation, will other theories of motivation also be strengthened in their memory? Teaching of Psychology , 52 (1), 17-26.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

“He thought if they made a mistake, the mistake would get entrenched, and you’d have to backtrack to erase it,” explains Janet Metcalfe, a professor of psychology at Columbia University, and the author of an impressive scientific review titled “Learning from Errors,” published earlier this year in Annual Review of Psychology.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Every senior spends a month working outside of school at full-time internships throughout Chicago. Blanton, a high school senior, was interning for the firm’s information technology group. Linnea Garrett, Chicago Technology Academy school director. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. A staff shake-up ensued.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

The simulations allow learners to enter a virtual environment and role play with virtual students who are manifesting signs of psychological distress, according to Albright. Kognito’s virtual simulation training specifically for high school teachers, staff and administrators is meant to help those educators become effective gatekeepers.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2021

Jennifer Greif Green, an associate professor in the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development at Boston University, said most of a child’s interactions with adults are with their parents and teachers, “so any disruption to that is really going to have an impact on that whole ecosystem and all those relationships.”. Not even close.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2018

Students at the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics, a public high school in New York City, have an elective class that mixes students from all high-school grades and encourages them to talk about issues like the purpose and meaning of life. I’ve been hearing the word ‘humanity’ over and over again.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

Hylton High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, was concerned about how that could happen safely. “I I go to a school with over 2,000 kids that walk through the door every single day,” she said. No one was considering the psychological toll each reopening plan would take on students,” she said. Credit: Chloe Pressley.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Kate Allender, of Tesla STEM High School, has designed a course integrating AP Psychology with a hands-on study of forensics. It’s not until the second-period bell rings, however, that you begin to see how different this is from a traditional psychology course. Photo: Amadou Diallo, for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Today, some 70 years after reformers launched a movement to make the middle grades more responsive to the needs of early adolescents, too many middle schools continue to operate like mini high schools, on a “cells and bells” model, said Chad Ratliff, the principal of Community Lab School. The Adolescent Brain.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., After a week of contemplation, I found myself wondering why we can’t do both.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. Nikita Nerkar, a peer wellness coach and senior from Phoenix majoring in psychology, said students often “are looking to have a space to talk things through.”.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Gil , late professor of social policy at the Florence Heller School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University, argued that individuals can only reach their full potential when human needs such as psychological safety are met. Support can’t stop after graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Martin Credé, a social psychologist at Iowa State University, has been particularly outspoken. ” Credé first published his analysis of all the grit studies he could find and laid out the problems in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2017. . Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a professor of psychology at Temple University who’s been researching how the metaverse can be used in education, described it as “a massively immersive experience that is digitally designed to put you into a different space than you’re currently in.”. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a professor of psychology at Temple University.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Fairfax High School in Phoenix 14 years ago, she had three Master’s degrees and four teaching certificates. Jenkins said one of the reasons she has been teaching in the Phoenix Union High School District, one of 30 public school districts here, for so long is that she doesn’t feel alone. PHOENIX, Ariz.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A cross-section of a brain scan sits on the desk of Tim Odegard, a professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient. Dyslexia is the most common reading disability.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

In Southern California’s Cajon Valley Union School District, career exploration starts in kindergarten. Leave this field empty if you're human: A core belief of those who created the program, which began this year, is that there is dignity in all work, a belief reflected in the range of careers highlighted. “We Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

But Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that adolescence is actually a second opportunity to invest in children because of the enormous brain development during this period. This is the “ human connectome ” and each person’s is unique, like a fingerprint.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. Victoria was in my U.S.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Research in psychology has led to a clearer picture of common pitfalls in human reasoning — instincts people are wired to make that may have helped our caveman ancestors but that now lead people to make biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. It’s more about why we make these errors, why we have evolved to think that way.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

The pandemic forced school systems across the world to move to virtual platforms for teaching and learning. Grades are too often used as weapons that can create psychological and emotional harm to young people whose experiences, cultural practices and behaviors are incompatible with their schools and educators.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

High school students often combat social media trolling by leaping before they look, jumping into heated arguments online. They might be told, for example, about what happened to the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, last February. Photo: © Maxppp via ZUMA Press.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Research on the physical, psychological and academic benefits of outdoor learning for kids is well-established, and is now informing the development of climate education. Credit: Steven Henley/ Albuquerque Public Schools And, as recently noted in a review of the potential impact the education sector can have on U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

policy has urged schools to keep students with disabilities in the same classrooms with their general education peers unless severe disabilities prevent it. It seems a humane policy not to wall off those with disabilities and keep them apart from society. Schools have embraced inclusion. For the past 25 years, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2019

While the families in this case stand accused of leveraging highly paid “consultants” — and while others benefit from expensive SAT and essay prep services — countless students do not even have access to a high school counselor. School counselors aren’t appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Colleges are to blame, too.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

She and Narter, a teacher at the Leyden High Schools, outside Chicago, sat down to review an essay of hers that he’d marked up. To date, Phillips and Henderson have helped instructors use video feedback for classes from 20 to 700 students, across high schools and universities, in subjects as far ranging as philosophy and engineering.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

We’re excited to bring you more episodes this year, including more installments in our new series about growing public skepticism about higher education and the impact that is having on the choices students make after high school. If you have a suggestion for a topic or guest for 2024, please send that my way at jeff@edsurge.com.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

Anne Gregory, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, recalls just such a scenario when an angry high school student shouted an expletive (“F— off!”) Gregory, who studies school discipline, wasn’t present for the outburst itself but she saw its aftermath. Photo: Jim Vaiknoras for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Spend the week with high school teacher and basketball coach Ed Bradley and you’ll likely hear someone ask him for help making a breakthrough with a challenging student. “As School leaders, he said, should question whether they’ve set up environments that allow teachers to link their values and beliefs to the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2020

When puberty hits, the brain reorganizes dramatically, said Laurence Steinberg, a professor of psychology at Temple University, who specializes in adolescence. Like I don’t feel that same like human connection,” said Seamus Lynch, an eighthgrader at Lincoln Middle School in Park Ridge, a suburb of Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

The psychological literature is muddy with several studies finding no harm to children’s mental health. Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that social interaction while gaming or using social media can be healthy for adolescent development.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Even before the pandemic, her daughter asked to be pulled from high school. It just made think my children had another option to learn at home without that hostile environment.” “Home school is attractive because you get to spend more time as a family.”. Fatima Siddiqui always knew she wanted to home-school her kids.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Years later, studying psychology, she wondered if mindset interventions would also be effective in her field. The researcher, Jessica Schleider, currently a psychology fellow at Yale Medical School, adapted Dweck’s online program into two half-hour mindset lessons, one aimed at depression and the other at anxiety.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

In high school, I was the lead in the musicals Little Shop of Horrors and Bye, Bye Birdie. I was on the varsity soccer, track, and cross-country teams in high school. It makes me feel more approachable and human when I share my life experiences with them. I am a vegetarian and love to cook.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

But despite growth in the numbers and sophistication of online options, high school seniors continue to apply for the opportunity to learn with one another on a college campus. I’d already adapted this class in 2013 as one of Coursera’s free online humanities offerings. Will the 2020 coronavirus pandemic change that?

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