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Dec 19, 2024
The Marshmallow Test is Misunderstood
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.
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 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.
Oct 05, 2024
The Agentic Schools Manifesto Book
The Agentic Schools Manifesto lays out the paradigm shift from academics to agency.
Oct 02, 2024
What is the best philosophy of education for educational equity?
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
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
“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 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.
Sep 15, 2024
Correcting Drive by Daniel Pink
Drive by Daniel Pink presented the science of motivation incorrectly. Learn the current state of the science.
May 29, 2024
Agentic Schools
Host, Don Berg, interviews folks from agentic schools, where children's have the ability to make decisions about their learning.
May 09, 2024
The Book How Learning Happens Misrepresents Motivation
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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The Marshmallow Test is Misunderstood
Dec 19, 24 04:10 PM
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. -
Is behaviorism in education a ghastly blight or perfectly great?
Nov 26, 24 03:14 PM
Behaviorism in education can be controversial, but it does not need to be. Learn how both critics and champions are getting the science wrong. -
Clarifying In Loco Parentis: The Duty of Care Schools Owe to Students
Oct 24, 24 07:38 PM
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.
