Carl Hendrick Paul A. Kirschner Daniel Willingham Carl Hendrick sharing that some interesting studies have been done on pre-testing. If pupils are shown questions before they’ve learned it, they then recognise it when it comes up. It seems counterintuitive, but early evidence suggests it could be promising. #rEDEdinburgh

Bellow’s Warning persuasion.community/p/bellows-warn…

“The Instagram generation experiences the present moment as an anticipated memory.” —Kahneman

The world needs honest and courageous entrepreneurs and communicators who care for the common good. We sometimes hear the saying: “Business is business!” In reality, it is not so. No one is absorbed by an organization to the point of becoming a mere cog or a simple function. Nor

Luke Burgis List of Catholic miracles that make me question my atheism: 1. Sun miracle of Fatima 2. Joan of Arc 3. Pope making Marc Andreessen shut up for one day.

Why not go full neo-feudalism and make it a 500-year mortgage that is binding on your descendants

Brain break

The problems people bring up are predictable at this point: 1. We’re being told to teach with inquiry based learning 2. We’re being evaluated on inquiry based learning 3. Our materials are inquiry based 4. Our students are performing worse and worse 5. Nobody will listen

"All learning requires effort-the effort of attention and repeated distributed practice to forge and fix new neural networks." - E.D. Hirsch Deep learning requires repeated and directed hard work. The priority should NOT be to make learning effortless and fun. Those are good

We talk past each other on knowledge. To me, mental ‘skills’ are knowledge. They’ve just become automatised: I know how to structure a paragraph or I know how to analyse a source. Sometimes, they are learnt implicitly and sometimes we teach them explicitly. I would suggest the

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We now have slide decks that you can use for PD on the following topics: --Phonics Instruction for ELLs --Phonological Instruction for ELLs --Vocabulary Instruction for ELLs You are welcome to share these slides and related articles and tip sheets! colorincolorado.org/ell-profession…

Remember: Hispanic American kids test better than Vietnam, and Black American kids test better than Romania. U.S. education is unequal but it's actually very high-quality.

Karen Vaites Yes. We just swapped our curricula in upper grades to old school core knowledge from the Core Knowledge foundation website. After just completing winter MAP testing, we're seeing that the rooms that did best with vocabulary instruction had the best growth. However, the

Gretchen The CK texts in science and SS are the only thing out there. This is why Ss don't read content in elementary and only do so in a fragmented way. It's all about hands on in science and enquiry based units in social. The curriculum in elementary SC/SS is pathetic.

Dr William H Kitchen Doug Lemov Carl Hendrick Paul A. Kirschner Greg Ashman Dylan Wiliam Daisy Christodoulou Tony Gallagher Perhaps the best study we have on this showed that a low-income district showed statistically significant, moderate-to-large effects across subjects and that these effects were large enough to eliminate achievement gaps between disadvantaged and advantaged students

This confuses what reading is with how reading is taught. A recurring rhetorical move in the piece is to say, implicitly: “Reading is complex, rich, social, and meaningful — therefore instruction should look like that.” That’s a category error. Yes, skilled reading is complex

Fifth graders, especially boys, will discuss this "boring" topic ALL DAY LONG! Core Knowledge has a nice general text on Understanding Economics that I use as a base for instruction. Teach Social Studies. Just do it.

Here are some claims that are simultaneously true, but that people maddeningly refuse to simultaneously acknowledge: 1. The knowledge and culture industries are highly unrepresentative of the societies they serve, and remained so throughout the "Great Awokening" (I wrote a book

EvidentlyReading Karen Vaites Jill Tucker Sean Morrisey We adopted CKLA last year. Not only are the students loving it, the parents are so impressed with the upgrade in the topics students are talking about at home.