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Season 4

054 Season 4 Year in Review

Release Date:  August 12, 2021 Leave a Comment

This month we reflect on our year of reading scholarship and growing as humans. First we’ll return to the segments we felt had the greatest impact on our practice and our thinking from the research we read. See the 2020-2021 Noteworthy Paper announcements here. Later, we’ll reflect specifically on our praxis. We share some of… Read More »

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053 Making Spaces & Autonomy Support

Release Date:  July 12, 2021 Leave a Comment

This month we are talking about race, and read a series of papers looking at the experience of Black students in US education. First, we read an article that examined the story of “The Space Traders” as a starting point for imagining what it looks like to create Black Education Spaces for students to express… Read More »

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052 Socio-emotional Screening & Teacher Expressions

Release Date:  June 12, 2021 Leave a Comment

Student social, emotional, and behavior development will be a critical consideration for teachers returning to physical classrooms in the fall. We read a national study examining the various methods schools use to screen students for social, emotional, and behavioral needs. Universal screening is still rare in the US, but its impacts are considerable. Later, we… Read More »

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051 Retrieval Practice & Metacognition Translation

Release Date:  May 19, 2021 Leave a Comment

This month we are thinking… about thinking. We read a review of the applied research on retrieval practice, which recognizes the difference between “learning” something and “knowing” something. We reflect on the ways this has played out in our classrooms, and what we can learn from recent studies for how to improve our use of… Read More »

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050 Standardized Tests & Start Times

Release Date:  April 12, 2021 Leave a Comment

Standardized testing is happening again this year. Researchers are talking about how to use the data more responsibly. We read an advising memo that describes some of the common problems with comparing testing data from this year to past years, so we can properly recognize the progress students have made this year. Later, we discuss… Read More »

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049 Multimedia Models & Administrative Dysfunction

Release Date:  March 12, 2021 Leave a Comment

Images and animations offer tools to visualize our content, but must strike a balance between ease-of-use and ability to prompt thinking. We read a study that tested the impact of prior knowledge and multimedia format on learning outcomes. Later, we read a case study about an administrator navigating a toxic district culture. Guest Jenn Binis… Read More »

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048 Gamification & Research Impact

Release Date:  February 12, 2021 Leave a Comment

Gamification offers a fresh take on teaching design that offers increased engagement and improved learning. However, research to-date has been unclear about what components of gamification work. We read a meta-analysis that searches for which pieces of gamification can benefit your students. Later, we turned to a study of how research is interpreted by teachers…. Read More »

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047 Epistemic Disobedience & Neuroscience Motivation

Release Date:  January 11, 2021 Leave a Comment

Teacher preparation and professional development can pursue anti-racist, decolonial practices by deconstructing our assumptions about effective practice. We read a study from pre-service teachers engaged in disrupting oppressive paradigms of teaching in a collaborative pursuit of more just practice. Later, we turned to an examination of the neuroscience underlying motivation. These authors claim a popular… Read More »

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046 Nature of Science & Malleable Self-Concept

Release Date:  December 12, 2020 Leave a Comment

Science communication has been turned upside down by the explosion of popularity of social media platforms. We read a reconceptualization of nature-of-science education for the social media age. What is our job as teachers, of any content area, to prepare our students to be responsible consumers of science as citizens?   Later, we turned to… Read More »

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045 Differentiated Numeracy & Goal Consensus

Release Date:  November 12, 2020 Leave a Comment

The importance of mathematical reasoning is visible in conversations from pandemics to politics. Sarah Dolence joins us to discuss how a numeracy framework developed for citizens can inform math instruction for students. Later, we read research connecting instructional choices to student perceptions of classroom goal structures. From tasks to evaluations, are we incentivizing growth? Finally,… Read More »

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