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.

Psychology 70

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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

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.

Psychology 123

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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

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.

Psychology 107

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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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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.

Leadership 125

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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

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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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.

Tutoring 127

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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.

Psychology 140

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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

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.

Psychology 145

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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.

Psychology 111

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Anthropology 365

MARCH 31, 2025

After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. I had taken a couple of courses in anthropology and was excited by the fact that doing anthropology allowed me to engage in all of my interests: biology, conservation, ecology, and how humans fit in the world.

Anthropology 40

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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.

Psychology 139

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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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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.

High School 40

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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.

Psychology 115

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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.

Psychology 119

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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.

Psychology 102

Psychology High School Humanities Teaching 102

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.

Research 138

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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.

K-12 112

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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.

Psychology 108

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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.

Psychology 79

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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?

Education 129

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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.

Lesson Plan 142

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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.

Middle School 145

Middle School Psychology Humanities Social Studies 145

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.

Elementary School 144

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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.

Classroom Management 146

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

Dr. Callahan promotes autonomy by structuring his high school psychology course around the interests of his students. The” what” and” why” of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behavior. Psychological inquiry,11(4), 227-268. Intrinsic motivation. L., & Ryan, R.

Psychology 87

Psychology Education K-12 Research 87

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.

Civics 90

Civics Psychology Humanities Elementary School 90

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

In reality, I am sitting behind a computer at home like most of us, trying to make the best of a bad situation while I process the implications of this pandemic on the musical life of our school district. Related: OPINION: Music is ‘more than sound’ for students seeking safe spaces, human connections and their own voices.

Middle School 120

Middle School Psychology Elementary School Public School 120

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

And because information and data are critical to human survival, it’s understandable that people crave instant access to the millions of bits of information that tech/smartphones offer. Their smartphones are, in essence, digital drugs. But there are costs. The devices aren’t neutral.

Psychology 109

Psychology Elementary School Research Humanities 109

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Black students are less likely to apply and be admitted to the state’s top tier schools. Black Virginians were more likely to have grown up in poor neighborhoods and attended elementary, middle and high schools with other poor students, less experienced teachers and fewer resources. Choose from our newsletters.

Tutoring 118

Tutoring Psychology High School Research 118

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The assumptions here are derived from research findings that previous scholars have calculated on smaller groups of people around the country and then applied to this larger national database of students who graduated high school in 2007. .” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

Sociology 100

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. WATER INSECURITY AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE The statistics on rising water insecurity are distressing. An estimated “1.8

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