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Nov 26, 2024

Is behaviorism in education a ghastly blight or perfectly great?

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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Oct 24, 2024

Clarifying In Loco Parentis: The Duty of Care Schools Owe to Students

in loco parentis - Parent, teacher, and child in a classroom.

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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Oct 09, 2024

Is Motivation Boosted By Achievement?

Motivation is NOT a mental switch that flips when a child “achieves.” Getting it wrong causes problems, because well-being is also involved.

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Oct 05, 2024

The Agentic Schools Manifesto Book

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The Agentic Schools Manifesto lays out the paradigm shift from academics to agency.

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Oct 03, 2024

A Contribution To The Work

Your financial contribution enables us to do the good work.

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Oct 02, 2024

What is the best philosophy of education for educational equity?

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One best philosophy of education is not realistic, but we can narrow the field for achieving educational equity.

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Sep 27, 2024

How Education Policy is Maintaining a Market Failure in K-12

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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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Sep 25, 2024

Direct Instruction Treats a Symptom, Not The Disease

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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Sep 23, 2024

“Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs” is Wrong—NOW Stop Using It

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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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Sep 19, 2024

Calming The Anxious Generation at School

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

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.

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Sep 15, 2024

Correcting Drive by Daniel Pink

Drive Misrepresentation by Ostergaard

Drive by Daniel Pink presented the science of motivation incorrectly. Learn the current state of the science.

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May 29, 2024

Agentic Schools

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Host, Don Berg, interviews folks from agentic schools, where children's have the ability to make decisions about their learning.

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May 09, 2024

The Book How Learning Happens Misrepresents Motivation

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The book How Learning Happens misrepresents the effects of motivation on learning. Discover the truth.

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May 06, 2024

How to Transform the Global School System

Learn what it will take to transform the global school system to better educate our children.

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Jun 11, 2023

Politics in Education May Be Bad, But Both Sides Get It Wrong

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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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