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"It's Always Been Done This Way"
One of my least favorite sentences in the entire universe is some version of “It’s always been done this way.” Just by typing it I can feel my blood pressure rise! Why, I wonder, would anyone find...
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4 Learning Strategies To Stress With Students
Photo by Erik Lucatero on Unsplash Let's be honest. High school, middle school, elementary; most students don't know how to learn effectively. It's because they are rarely taught about their brain....
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5 Steps To Better Memory And Understanding
Practice makes permanent. This is what we've become conditioned to say in recent years. It's a true statement no doubt, but what kind of practice are we talking about? And, how do we teach our...
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How To Keep Lesson Design Simple, But Powerful
It's simple really. Use the Power of Three when designing lessons. The Power of Three (also called the Rule of Three) is the idea that when we group things in threes they are more doable, more...
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What Motivates Students?
There is a question that I’m getting more and more at workshops and trainings and that is "how do I motivate my students to work?" I hate to break it to you, but there is no “magic bullet” solution to...
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Why We Need to Stop Telling Kids to Think Outside the Box
Tripping on 'shrooms in Prague once I stopped by an art gallery window and saw it. It was an orange dog; the tiniest of canines. A stain of fluorescent orange paint in the bottom right corner of a...
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Why Students Learn Better When They Teach (+ 4 Activities)
When You Teach Something You Get To Learn It Twice - Jim Kwik Cameron, a former student of mine, who is now in college, commented on my recent post about efficient and effective learning titled Too...
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7 Ways to Make Learning Impossible in Your Classroom
We talk a lot about how to increase student achievement and improve learning in our classrooms. A lot of these conversations are centered around what needs to be added or changed in a classroom, NOT...
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Success Is Not About What You Know
Success is less about what you know now and more about how quickly and effectively you can learn and use new information. This is the most important thing I learned in my 15 years or teaching and...
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Virtual Reality Learning
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. - Jean Jacques Rousseau We say "a picture is worth a thousand words" and then ask our students to imagine things they cannot...
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The (Not) Problem of Repetitive Play
In my work, as in the work of many people, I imagine, there are themes that come up again and again. Sometimes I get asked a question and I can point to a blog post I wrote or an article I read months...
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