A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

South from his peers was his passion for helping students learn and love the sciences. He didn’t teach science. We learned science. He is the main reason I pursued a degree in science initially, before taking this passion to the field of education. All of his classes were amazing.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The second installment in Digital Promise Global’s Making Learning Personal For All series, “ Research and The Promise of Personalized Learning ” explores advances in the learning sciences that underscore key Learner Factors that must be considered in order to better support students based on their unique learning needs.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Since the days of writing on wooden shingles with charcoal in one-room school houses, an increasing array of objects – pencils, paper, scissors, paste, books, and microscopes, to name a few – have been routinely used in classrooms to help students deepen understanding and record and communicate what they learned.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2025

Related: Learning science might help kids read better Capin said teachers tended to lecture rather than encourage students to talk about what they understand or think. Teachers tended to confirm whether student responses were right or wrong. Capin said that only 18 percent of teacher responses elaborated on or developed students ideas.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Chellani''s Calculus, Pre-Calculus, and Algebra I courses viewed videos, utilized interactive apps on their cell phones, and employed the Socrative app on their cell phones to learn the content, understand its real-world applications, and foster and engage in class discussion.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2020

As schools rapidly shift instruction to a learn-from-home situation, we’re thinking about how to integrate core learning sciences principles in this new context: What do we know improves learning? How can we implement these strategies with students at home?

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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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ED Surge

MAY 27, 2022

As a fifth grade math teacher and instructional coach in New Orleans, Gibson has become increasingly interested in effective teaching informed by cognitive science —otherwise known as learning science—and how it can help teachers improve their practice. Click each image to see the excerpts and videos.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 24, 2021

When edtech tools incorporate research about learning from the start, learners are the center of product design. These types of tools ground their solution in learning sciences to meet the realities that learners face. The ISTE Seal of Alignment recognizes products that align to the ISTE Standards.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

A nonprofit organization, Deans for Impact, is working with them toward this goal, and as part of this effort, it administered a test to more than 1,000 teaching students at these six schools in the fall of 2019 to see how much learning science the teacher candidates understood. Future of Learning. Choose from our newsletters.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 2, 2021

Report: AI and the Future of Learning: Expert Panel Report. Sign up for the Center for Integrative Research in Computing and Learning Sciences (CIRCLS) newsletter to stay updated on emerging technologies for teaching and learning. Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2020

Digital Promise’s Learning Sciences Research team is experiencing what many educational researchers are familiar with by now—an untimely intrusion by the COVID-19 pandemic that compromises data collection at the end of the school year. How can educational researchers ensure continued data collection in the wake of COVID-19?

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A number of educators across the country are finding great value in ‘learning science’ books such as Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning. Are our school systems focusing on big important concepts or just trivia and minutiae as they engage in learning science and competency-based educational practices?

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Over the past three years, Digital Promise has engaged educators, districts, students, and product developers in conversations to identify a crucial signal of edtech excellence: a design basis in learning sciences research. Dr. KP Thai Director, Learning Sciences and Analytics, Age of Learning, Inc.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 7, 2022

These include the League of Innovative Schools , Verizon Innovative Learning Schools , the Center for Inclusive Innovation , the Learner Variability Project , a robust ecosystem of micro-credentials and educational technology product certifications , and a team of the top learning sciences researchers in education.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2021

ELW : I’m glad you brought up the need to connect technology with learning sciences research, since we often talk about how Digital Promise works at the intersection of educators, researchers, and developers. Digital Promise President and CEO @BrizardJC sat down to share his thoughts: [link] pic.twitter.com/XEELxIqzrS.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2021

They will also upgrade online learning environments, expand credentialing, and integrate virtual reality (VR) learning experiences for workers, including dislocated workers, incumbent workers, and new entrants to the workforce. Tennessee State University’s (TSU) Center of Excellence for Learning Sciences.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

However, this model of instruction does not align with our emerging understanding of how students learn science best.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2024

Malkin Carnegie Learning CEO "At the root of everything we do is the goal of supporting students, teachers and leaders in raising student achievement using learning science — and AI," explains Malkin. The path to their collective goal is equally succinct: continuous research, customer feedback and growth. And grow, they have.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Education networks will continue to leverage the best of learning science, digital tools, community wisdom, partnerships, and student voice to not just improve learning but redefine it. Reimagining learning. EdClusters can either disrupt or perpetuate those equity gaps. Responsive collaborations.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

After creating and implementing challenge based science lessons, teachers commonly recognized the importance of allowing for student discovery. Inviting students to solve challenges can engage them to learn science in deeper, more personal ways. It was neat to see what they came up with.”

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2018

What has changed, however, is the need and increased capacity to personalize learning, including: A workforce that demands significantly more than mastery of the 3 Rs; 2. The burgeoning field of learning sciences research that addresses learner variability 4 ; and.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

And to learn more about our current research conversations, subscribe to Digital Promise’s Learning Sciences Connections newsletter to read stories that share useful findings from the field. The post How to Build Students’ Multiplicative Reasoning Skills appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 20, 2020

We hope to equip participants with techniques that will positively impact student learning, eliminate opportunity gaps, and make it so social determinants no longer reliably predict student outcomes. Stay tuned for more lessons from this course by subscribing to the Learning Sciences Connections newsletter.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2022

Additionally, stories about companies and nonprofits trying to innovate within higher ed attracted a lot of attention, as did several articles about learning science and new teaching practices. The story was part of a series on learning engineering and learning science. Thanks for reading, and happy new year.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2019

But research published since Duckworth’s TED Talk—and Digital Promise’s own research in the learning sciences—show that a number of factors influence student learning. There are many factors that influence student learning.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The model is built on a whole learner framework of adult literacies, cognition, social-emotional learning, and learner background—all of which research shows are essential factors of learning.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2022

To increase the preparedness and compensation of ECE teachers, The Center of Excellence for Learning Sciences at TSU coordinated with Tennessee Early Childhood Training Alliance (TECTA) and its early head start programs to launch ClearPath ECE.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 30, 2019

Drawing from both learning sciences research and feedback from educators, we developed this framework to support teachers in identifying where their students can leverage computational thinking.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 14, 2015

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

But it’s an open question whether students can learn every subject this way. Each concluded that students who learned science and social studies through a detailed project-based curriculum over the course of a year posted higher achievement scores than those who learned those subjects the way teachers in their schools usually taught them.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Today, learning sciences research has discovered more about how people learn than we have ever known—and much of this research demonstrates that people learn differently. By recognizing exemplars, the campaign aimed to inspire other developers to use research to create high-quality learning products.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Fortunately, there are many valuable resources available to teachers interested in going deep into this work, including: Understand the ways your students’ learning might vary. There are tons of resources about learning sciences.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2021

Digital Promise Product Certifications are credible and independent verifications that a product’s design is based on research about learning. The Product Certification offers a competitive advantage.

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