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The importance of agency in successful edtech adoptions

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Higher test scores are often used to measure student achievement, but we know true meaning-making and application of skills are measured in different ways. The sense of agency plays a pivotal role in cognitive development and includes recognizing oneself as the agent of behavior and an empowered independent.

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Graduate Students Want to Solve ‘Wicked Problems.’ Are Universities Delivering?

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Instead, more often than not, graduate education provides depth almost to the systematic exclusion of breadth; developing isolated and disconnected experts rather than those who can meaningfully connect with others and their expertise toward achieving common goals.

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How to Improve Brain Function and Reverse Poverty's Impact on Student Learning

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For years, research has shown that socioeconomic status is associated with differences in school readiness, cognitive development and achievement. These differences include the areas of the brain responsible for working memory, impulse regulation, visuospatial skills, language and cognitive control.

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The Case for Expanding the Definition of 'Personalization' to Meet the Needs of the Whole Child

Edsurge

Such a developmental trajectory is proposed in the Building Blocks for Learning , which I developed for Turnaround for Children. Cognitive development includes skills like those involved in memory and processing information. The two final domains are connected to health, both physical health (e.g.,

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The benefits of active learning

Dangerously Irrelevant

Given what we know about teacher retention and/or the cognitive development of young children, this is incredibly dismaying (and not limited to Massachusetts). In other words, compared to more traditional schools, these schools ROCK IT on many of the outcomes that we say that we are trying to achieve for our students.

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The Importance of Art Class

Teach Hub

Social-Emotional Learning Art class extends beyond a student’s cognitive development, it can also impact their social- emotional learning. When students explore different art forms and learn different cultural and personal perspectives, they have a better understanding of other people’s experiences.

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