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May 19, 2025

An Effective Teacher Needs An Anti-Bureaucratic School

Becoming an effective teacher requires more than mastering instructional skills, it requires your school to support you to be a good person, too.

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May 19, 2025

Student Motivation: Education Hygiene Ep#1

Student motivation is boosted by education hygiene.

Boost student motivation with education hygiene. This video series will focus on the most basic behaviors that teachers use to boost student motivation.

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May 18, 2025

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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Apr 24, 2025

Against Andragogy and Heutagogy

There is Only Good Pedagogy and Bad Pedagogy- No heutagogy or andragogy

The terms andragogy and heutagogy were coined using a doublespeak definition of pedagogy, so they are fundamentally deceptive terms that should be abandoned.

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Feb 14, 2025

A Practical Hidden Curriculum Definition For Healthy Schools

Having a hidden curriculum definition that is ideological but impractical is a waste. The secret to success is measuring the effects of the hidden curriculum.

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Jan 29, 2025

Back to Basics 2.0: What happens in Vagueness Stays in Vagueness

Back to Basics was used to politically reinforce the mainstream K-12 paradigm of schools in the 1970s. Learn about the new basics from science of learning.

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Dec 22, 2024

Replacing The Correspondence Theory of Truth

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The correspondence theory of truth is being falsified by science and a new, more realistic theory of truth is replacing it.

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Dec 19, 2024

The Marshmallow Test is Misunderstood

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The Marshmallow Test is about delayed gratification in kids, but some schools use it to pass the buck to kids instead of taking responsibility like they should.

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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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