The Importance of Critical Thinking4/16/2021
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How To Check For Understanding: A Guide3/31/2021 How To Be Healthy: What You Need To Know9/23/2020 GOOGLE AD GRANTS ARE A GAME CHANGER9/3/2020  Find out how individualized education plans work and how parents and teachers can maximize their efficacy.
AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID HANDEL7/14/2019  Dr. David Handel tells us about iDoRecall, an app that strives to help students with time management and long-term retention and learning.
 How to create change? This question comes up a lot, largely because we’re often learning in order to change.
 The options for technology in the classroom have exploded, but one question that continues to pop up is whether students should use technology to take notes.
 My books have gone into six printings, been on the best-seller list for months and been optioned for film. Let me tell you how to promote your work, from books to blogs to businesses.
WHY OUR SOCIAL WAYS MATTER FOR EDUCATION6/18/2019  Should you trust your colleagues? Should you have faith in educators? Do your students even want to do the right thing?
LEARN BETTER GIVEAWAY!4/16/2019  We're giving away FREE signed copies of Learn Better by Ulrich Boser.
Please read more for the details on this competition. DOES BILINGUAL EDUCATION WORK?4/16/2019  For decades, there has been a hot debate about the benefits (or not) of bilingual education for English language learners. Some argue that bilingual education slows down acquisition of a second language, while others assert that second language acquisition is improved within bilingual language programs; both sides can point to research “supporting” their stance, as often happens. So, what happens when you pick apart the literature and try to determine what really works?
 More and more organizations from testing companies like ETS to massive companies like Frito-lay are relying on online tools to crowdsource public opinion. Lego, for example, now uses crowdsourced focus groups to collect ideas from consumers for new products.
HOW DUAL CODING HELPS LEARNING3/15/2019  Lashaudra Cox, an AP Biology and Biology teacher at Douglass High School, in urban Memphis, Tennessee, doesn’t like to “baby” her students. “I notice that some students will shut down instead of actually trying to grapple with (a problem) or, you know, have that productive struggling through it.” She adds that, instead of just giving them the information, she allows “them to work through it and solve it on their own.”
 Glenn Whitman is at the forefront of integrating the science of learning into actual classroom settings. Through his work as the Director of the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning at St. Andrews Episcopal School, Glenn bridges the gap between the research and the classroom.
BANNING THE ROD IN SCHOOLS3/5/2019  Every year, tens of thousands of students in American are paddled in school, and more than a dozen states still allow teachers to hit or strike their students.
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