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Dec 12, 2025

What is a Moral Imperative in Education?

Michael Fullan and Moral Imperative Book Covers

Asking, “What is a moral imperative in education?” Dig into two experiments that involve brain scanning meditators and imagining the Oregon Trail in April 1848.

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Dec 12, 2025

Understanding the Purpose of Schools: A Holistic Perspective

Florida Rejects 54 Math Texts Screenshot

Defining the purpose of schools can help us understand why conservatives are unnecessarily alarmed by SEL (which is presumed to be CRT in disguise.)

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Dec 11, 2025

Transforming the School System: From Moral Hunch to Meaningful Change

Moral Hunch Check Box with Schools and Books

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

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Nov 30, 2025

Deconstructing the Engagement Myth: Why Intuition Fails in Classrooms

Abel's and Betsy's Engagement with Their Needs Looks Like Disengagement From Class

How a student engagement myth was perpetuated in the most recent issue of ASCD Educational Leadership Magazine.

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Oct 20, 2025

The Book Instructional Illusions Attacks Self-Determination Theory

Bizarro Style - The Beatings Will Continue and I Will Make You Achieve

In their book Instructional Illusions Kirschner, Hendrick, and Heal are just shadow boxing when they try to attack Self-Determination Theory.

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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

How Learning Happens Cover with Author Photos

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

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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

Cover of Philosophy in the Flesh by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

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

Three Kids with Marshmallows

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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