“In moving to college and career readiness for all, we must now teach some skills formerly learned by students on their own. All students need lessons and modeling of study and work skills like time and task management, note taking, and assignment completion strategies...” Robert Belfanz, Putting Middle Grades Students on The Graduation Path Planning […]
Congrats! You made it through the course! We are excited for you to begin teaching executive functions to your students! Read below to learn about the remaining 20%. The Remaining 20% I told you at the start of this course that we would get you 80% of the way there. We imagine that you are […]
Learning sometimes occurs because someone insists that you recognize the excellence in yourself. Rita Pierson Accountability Students are more likely to learn EFs when they get practice employing them as a result of engaging in a predictable daily learning routine. However, without accountability students will be less successful in this endeavor. Accountability, well...holds students accountable […]
Ambiguity is the enemy. Any successful change requires a translation of ambiguous goals into concrete behavior. In short to make a switch, you must script the critical moves. Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard Goal Setting Goal setting has a powerful impact on student success. Sadly, it […]
How to Teach Executive Functions in any Classroom Executive Functioning Skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. They are the bedrock for learning and when student have daily practice employing them they are more like to succeed academically and in the workplace. Thank […]
Over the past few weeks I have been trying to get an idea of how schools can gain a better understanding of the losses students are facing as a result of distance learning during the pandemic. The COVID slide is real and by the very fact that it will have been over a year since […]
I have been reading a lot lately about the idea of a COVID Slide during distance learning. Similar to the Summer Slide, it is predicted that many students will need significant intervention to help narrow learning gaps widened over the past year. Measuring Learning Loss Much of what I have read indicates that we don’t […]
As indicated in this graph, the severity of learning loss due to the pandemic is real, with 97% of students impacted. There is no question that we are going to have to address these learning and achievement gaps as we transition back to the classroom. The way path forward is to get at what drives […]
I have watched over the past year while my 1st grader learned to “go to school” through a screen. My children attend a public Waldorf school and there is little to no technology or screens in classrooms. The switch to distance learning for my daughters, 6 and 11, was big. At first, if I am […]
“Little is known about the effectiveness of learning at home for the entire student population and what this means for the development of skills. However, there are indications from multiple countries that many children had little effective instruction. For a significant proportion of pupils, learning during school closures was apparently almost non-existent. For example, early […]
