Behaviorism in education can be controversial, but it does not need to be. Learn how both critics and champions are getting the science wrong.
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In loco parentis is the legal foundation educators build upon, but too many schools undermine it by neglecting the psychological well-being of their students.
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Motivation is NOT a mental switch that flips when a child “achieves.” Getting it wrong causes problems, because well-being is also involved.
The Agentic Schools Manifesto lays out the paradigm shift from academics to agency.
One best philosophy of education is not realistic, but we can narrow the field for achieving educational equity.
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Education policy makers who invest exclusively in academic data are destroying our success. Investing in measures of engagement can transform the market.
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Direct instruction is prescribed as a necessary reform, but it fails to attack the deeper social disease that needs to be cured in mainstream schools.
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“Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs” was a good effort for the 1940’s, but it has not withstood the test of time nor the research of motivation scientists.
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The book The Anxious Generation makes a variety of recommendations that do not go far enough to alleviate children’s psychological distress in K-12 schools.
Drive by Daniel Pink presented the science of motivation incorrectly. Learn the current state of the science.
Host, Don Berg, interviews folks from agentic schools, where children's have the ability to make decisions about their learning.
The book How Learning Happens misrepresents the effects of motivation on learning. Discover the truth.
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Learn what it will take to transform the global school system to better educate our children.
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Politics in education creates a lot of drama but solutions can only come from fighting against bureaucracy and humanizing the institutions of schooling.
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