“Memory is the residue of thought” makes its way to South America. Aptus #researchEdChile Daniel Willingham

Students learn faster when they see what something is and what it isn’t. One of the most important aspect of curriculum planning + instructional design is effectively using examples and non-examples. 🧵⬇️

1400 folks here! #researchEdChile2025

Nidhi Sachdeva (Nidhi Sachdeva, PhD) takes the stage at #rEDChile2025

The Buzz is real...Folks in a think-pair-share. Look at the number of teachers here, learning diligently. This is how you create change. Aptus Tom Bennett OBE researchED Canada researchED Paul W Bennett Greg Ashman Jim Hewitt

Three beautiful minds #redchile2025

FOMO!!!!

You wouldn’t know from this picture, but I’m speaking to 1300 Chilean educators. #rEDChile2025

With Rodrigo Lopez, the guy who has created this researchED Chile magic with his incredible team! Aptus Matías Rojas Torres researchED researchED Canada

Mighty Jim Heal on his Eras tour at #rEDChike2025

"We just talk about what these amazing minds got right but they also got so much wrong, we need to talk about that too!" -Barbara Oakley #rEDChile2025 Aptus

Thank you for inviting us, Rodrigo Lopez ! Magnífico evento! researchED Chile Greg Ashman Nidhi Sachdeva, PhD Tom Bennett OBE Barbara Oakley Dr. Jim Heal Jaime Saavedra

The sheer whiplash of coming on here and seeing haters faux-earnestly questioning where the money from the bargain basement entrance fee to researchED goes and then walking into researchED Santiago and seeing a global grassroots movement empowering teachers in the same way it

"And whether it is London, Ballarat or Chile, you meet that teacher who feels lonely in their school. They mention Willingham or Rosenshine to colleagues a draw blank faces. Then they come to researchED and feel like they have come home." Yep...🙂 Thank you, Tom Bennett OBE

Documento Aptus para poner foco y energía en lo que hace una diferencia en una clase de Lenguaje y Literatura, desde 2° de primaria. Aptus new document on what to focus on in a L. Arts classroom. SPANISH web.aptus.org/aptus-7/api/ma… aptuschile researchED Chile researchEDHome

I've had a long career in both media and education. Worked for lots of leaders. Introverts and extroverts; men and women; cheerleaders and task-masters. There's one thing the best ones had in common: They help you be and feel successful at your job.

This is absolutely brilliant. Everyone who wants to use the term "zone of proximal development" should read this first. And then, if they still want to use the term "zone of proximal development" they should read it again...

"Professions that truly put evidence at their core—medicine, aviation, engineering, seamanship—are built on five common pillars. Education needs all five: A shared knowledge base; research-aligned preparation; licensure rooted in competence; accreditation with teeth; and

The most influential study on scaffolding timing just failed replication. My latest on why this matters and what the evidence actually shows. Link in reply 👇