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How to Make Learning Stick

A Principal's Reflections

Emotion has a substantial influence on the cognitive processes in humans, including perception, attention, learning, memory, reasoning, and problem-solving. Hence the need for research-based pedagogies that don't prepare kids for something but anything! Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(4), 610. & Croizet, J.

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Research-Influenced Learning Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

The evidence of such connections came from the medical understanding of how human sensory perception affects cognitive calculations. As such, Barrett and Zang (2009) identify three key design principles: Naturalness : Hardwired into our brains, humans have the basic need for light, air, and safety. Godwin, K., & & Seltman, H.

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How Metacognition Can Optimize Learning

Cult of Pedagogy

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Helping us do that is Megan Sumeracki, a professor of cognitive psychology at Rhode Island College. Her area of expertise is human learning and memory, and applying the science of learning in educational contexts.

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The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it

The Hechinger Report

Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. These ideas have revived interest in E.D. Hirschs Core Knowledge curriculum, which gained popularity in the late 1980s.

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Making School Better for Gender-Expansive Kids

Cult of Pedagogy

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Maybe you believe gender fluidity has always been a part of human existence and that those statistics only exist because we are just now getting around to naming and measuring it.

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How to Bring to Life the Science of Reading

ED Surge

Her words describe the transformative power of reading — a skill that, unlike spoken language, humans are not naturally hardwired to master. The Science of Reading : Imagine Learning's core, supplemental and intervention products that bridge the gap between pedagogy and classroom instruction.

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How Belonging and Productive Struggle Can Motivate Students in Math

Digital Promise

Gotto Chair in Child Development and professor of psychology and human development at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Matthews’s research highlights how belonging extends to the instructional choices and curricula used by teachers, a theme that often comes up in research on culturally responsive pedagogy. and Antonio M.

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