A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 22, 2012

I am extremely excited that my second book is now available through Solution Tree entitled What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Science. It was a great deal of fun co-authoring this book with Keith Devereaux , one of my Science teachers at New Milford High School.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

All the latest Core Knowledge study proves is that students are more likely to do well on a test of something they have been taught. Some observers errantly interpreted that as evidence that a knowledge rich curriculum is beneficial.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Often Ill go into classrooms with literacy stuff all over the walls, but nothing in terms of number, said Nancy Jordan, professor of learning sciences at the University of Delaware and author of Number Sense Interventions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

6th grade science. High school Advanced Placement. Environmental Science Curriculum. Project-based learning, a popular practice that uses lots of poster boards and student presentations, is billed as an antidote to boring classrooms where teachers drone on. Curriculum. Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. Curriculum.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2021

Another thing we can all do is to not have a myopic view of success, meaning that we don’t just look at students reaching math and reading proficiency by the end of high school. That is a means to an end. Digital Promise President and CEO @BrizardJC sat down to share his thoughts: [link] pic.twitter.com/XEELxIqzrS.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2019

Students completed a survey that included four items from the Grit Scale, as well as questions used to measure various factors known to predict high school graduation, such as school safety, teacher support, peer support, parental support, conscientiousness, and school motivation.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2024

Amid the chaotic deluge of new generative AI tools, claims and calamities inundating school leaders, Carnegie Learning has been all in on AI for nearly 25 years. The path to their collective goal is equally succinct: continuous research, customer feedback and growth. And grow, they have.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. The curriculum also primes students for college and potential careers in science. It's an opportunity for us.

Education 134

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

A Chicago study makes the case that high schools that build social-emotional skills, such as the ability to resolve conflicts and the motivation to work hard, are getting even better results for students than schools that only boost test scores. Student teachers fail test about how kids learn, nonprofit finds.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

19, 2021 to eliminate the essay portion of the SAT may have delighted millions of current and future high school students but its discontinuation could also be a loss for students of color and those whose primary language isn’t English. He is currently the head of assessment and learning sciences at Roblox, an online gaming company.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Students from City As School high school in New York City think like engineers as they construct a water filtration system. Five groups of high school students worked around tables in Vielca Anglin’s science classroom on a recent afternoon at City-As-School in New York City.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As the authors put it: “Indeed, it seems that implementations of flipped learning perpetuate the things they claim to reduce, that is, passive learning.” The far-reaching meta-analysis considered flipped learning experiments done in elementary schools, high schools and colleges, with the bulk of the studies in the higher ed setting.

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2022

As such, it should come as no surprise that, upon learning about Course of Mind: ISTE’s learning sciences initiative , she jumped at the chance to enroll a cohort of her colleagues. Here, she discusses her experience in the course and shares some key takeaways that she hopes will improve learning outcomes in her district.

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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

APRIL 8, 2021

Researchers at the Digital Promise-led Center for Integrative Research in Computing and Learning Sciences ( CIRCLS ) believe that over the next five to 10 years, AI in the education space will see a significant growth. According to Stanford University’s 2021 AI Index , more than $40 billion was invested in all AI startups in 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

All these ideas are established learning science. Related: Student teachers fail test about how kids learn, nonprofit finds One of the first principal syntheses of these findings with clear recommendations for the classroom was a 2007 federal report, “ Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning.”

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ED Surge

JULY 4, 2023

Then he switched careers to become a kindergarten teacher and later a high school teacher before going back to get a doctorate in education from Stanford University. In your career, you have also been an elementary and high school teacher. How has that informed your thinking?No.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2023

That doesn’t mean we should jettison the songs or all the other memorization methods just because some aren’t as effective as others.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Maybe adding this new piece could even help adults see more than just an “anxious generation” but also one hungry to learn.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

New Mexico School for the Arts (NMSA) is a high school that boasts rigorous academic and mastery arts curricula for students from across the state. Be explicit : NMSA administrators and staff share information about the brain, and the benefits of learning sciences research, with students.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

When he was in high school, Zachary Farley latched onto the idea of becoming a teacher. Then in college, when he started learning Mandarin, a deep love of languages took hold, and he began to make new plans. It wasn't until high school that I seriously considered teaching as a career. It was a very long process.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

In partnership with Playful Pittsburgh Collaborative, the nonprofit Remake Learning, where I serve as executive director, is granting $1.5 Hillman foundations, will be guided by 10 local advisers with years of experience in play theory, learning science and urban design. The work, which is supported by the Grable and Henry L.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Applying Research to Truly Personalize Learning. One critical aspect of personalized learning is too often missing: the use of learning sciences research to best understand and reach each learner. Putting Learning Science Research to Work. Can Students Create VR? Short Answer: Yes!

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

In 2010, Taylor and Rohrer tested the technique with fourth graders learning math, and found that accuracy the day after the lesson was much higher for students who used interleaved practice (77 percent) than for those who used blocked practice (38 percent). Psychological Science in the Public Interest 14(1), 4–58. Karpicke, J.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Amid STEM Enthusiasm, Stepping Back to Consider the Broader Purpose of Teaching and Learning Science. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. As STEM enthusiasm percolates, the teaching of science — its importance, its challenges — isn’t always part of the conversation.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

Our first class for middle and high school students now begins at 9 a.m. Teachers use that to their advantage by beginning the next class with some retrieval practice and interleaving , learning science strategies that can boost knowledge retention. So, what have we done differently with our schedule this year?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Yet we want our babies to be bilingual and our grade-schoolers to be surrounded by second languages — and one signal of a quality high school is how many languages it offers (and how exotic). Wilson wants to learn science-specific vocabulary and have Spanish skills “to communicate across barriers.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

But Hebbar and other experts say such concerns shouldn’t stop schools and educators from using technology or banning AI.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And that sparked her interest in digging into learning science research that she’s gathered into a recent book, “ The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain.” And so embodied cognition suggests that this head-first or brain-bound approach to learning is really misguided.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 15, 2021

For example, although Black, Latino, and Native American students comprise 40 percent of the public high school enrollment and more than 17 percent of college degree holders, they are just 13 percent of working scientists and engineers. Announcing iCoachTEAM Project.

Middle School 118

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In addition, advances in information technology, learning science and new business processes and systems permit institutions to serve more students at lower cost. Related: Colleges face a new reality, as the number of high schools graduates will decline. Related: After falling, college graduation rates begin to rebound.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

The sad reality is high school might be too late.” It’s a hard thing to measure, but learning science suggests that this is the case.”. Related: It all started in a German castle: How wilderness programs shape some urban schools. Back then she could imagine no greater joy than accompanying him on his rounds.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

At the middle school level, they tested the mobile apps students were piloting using App-Inventor and dropped in to one of the country’s first-ever middle school cybersecurity courses.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Young children are “super curious,” said Matt Krehbiel, director of science for Achieve, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping students graduate high school ready to start college or to pursue a career. “We But science has long been given short shrift in the first few years of school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2016

But ironically, a fixed syllabus of readings and assignments for open-ended project-based learning courses may prevent us from capitalizing on “teachable moments.”. In the learning sciences, teachable moments go by many names: impasse-driven learning, preparation of future learning, desirable difficulties, or productive failure.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

The teachers participating committed to creating lesson plans — like the shade simulation — that will be made available freely for others to use on platforms including the website SubjectToClimate.org. Related: Climate change: Are we ready?

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