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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Their teachers will spend these early weeks determining where the 5- and 6-year-olds are developmentally, what academic, social and emotional skills they bring, and what support they need to set them up for a successful school year. Another is cognitive development, such as reasoning and problem-solving.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Teachers change brains. While we often don’t think of ourselves as brain changers, when we teach we have an enormous impact on our students’ cognitive development. To understand how teachers change the brain, we need to begin with a reasonably new understanding of the biology of learning.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Engaging Young Minds: The Power of Educational Bini Games for Cognitive Growth Cognitive development develops at a surprising rate during a child’s early years. This improves their memory and attention span, which are both necessary for academic performance and daily life.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

For years, research has shown that socioeconomic status is associated with differences in school readiness, cognitive development and achievement. Build Cognitive Capacity Every Day Cognitive skills are like apps that run the brain. Cognitive capacity is a core skill.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Just like math or literacy, social emotional skills and mindsets build toward more complex skills - like self-direction, curiosity and purpose - as students develop. Such a developmental trajectory is proposed in the Building Blocks for Learning , which I developed for Turnaround for Children.

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MARCH 3, 2019

I invest in education technology, but decades before I knew what a venture capitalist was, I was a history teacher in a small town in America’s heartland where I started my school’s first “Internet club.” Big Tech now commands more hours of our children’s attention than schools. So much of this progress is welcome and long overdue.

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APRIL 7, 2022

With the assistance of the right bilingual program and teachers, your child will have a better chance of acquiring, retaining, and deftly using multiple languages. A Boost in Cognitive Development. These schools can focus on your mother tongue, English, as well as other languages that your child might be interested in acquiring.

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