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Beyond Neuromyths: Why Teachers Still Embrace Ideas That Don't Work A new study surveying over 3,000 Spanish teachers, offers the most comprehensive picture yet of educational misconceptions in the wild.

*NEW POST* The Enduring Persistence of Neuromyths in Education
A new study surveying over 3,000 Spanish teachers provides one of the most detailed snapshots to date.
Fantastic work from @juanfernandez.bsky.social @ferreromar.bsky.social and colleagues

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notebook LM

Have you tried NOTEBOOK LM (by Google) yet
👉 notebooklm.google.com

Download your teacher handbook that you're supposed to read and upload to Notebook LM. Let it create an engaging conversation for you to listen to instead.

#GoogleEDU #GoogleWorkspace #EduSky

New paper about a brief word-problem screener for use in the elementary grades. It's free to read this article! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
And then download the screener at: www.piratemathequationquest.com

Study Smarter, Not Harder These are the best books, blogs, and podcasts to help your students study smarter, not harder, with the science of learning.

Attention all students and academic coaches! Want to ace exams and remember information long-term? Stop rereading, highlighting, and cramming. Instead, try the proven method of retrieval practice to boost learning and retention.

An excellent 10 minute rundown of the current US education landscape, contrasted with the previous 20 years www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...

TIMSS : le futur gouvernement doit changer de politique éducative Les résultats de l'enquête internationale TIMSS sur le niveau en maths des écoliers français sont sans appel : le « plan maths » et les choix pédagogiques de l'Education nationale n'ont pas porté de …

Les résultats de l'enquête internationale TIMSS sur le niveau en maths des écoliers français sont sans appel : le « plan maths » et les choix pédagogiques de l'EN n'ont pas porté de fruits : Une analyse de
@fjarraud.bsky.social sur le club de Médiapart : blogs.mediapart.fr/francois-jar...

Making Retrieval Practice Actually Work Seven Essential Principles for Teachers to Know

La pratique de la récupération est l'une des stratégies d' #apprentissage fondées sur des données probantes les plus efficaces dont nous disposons. Voici sept principes essentiels que les #enseignants doivent connaître.
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I’m a big fan of Jonathan Plucker’s work on advanced learning. Just found his excellent Substack—highly recommend. Here's a snippet. I agree: too many advanced math students aren’t getting in-class acceleration. We need advanced programming for them. jonathanplucker.substack.com/p/spring-has...

If they aren’t, the activity is simply a more engaging way to learn content that, in the end, won’t make it any easier for people with dyslexia to become fluent readers.

Multi-Sensory Instruction - Evidence-Based NOW! Programs Impoves Learning Difference In discussing its marketing strategy with a documentary filmmaker, the CEO of an airline spoke of the “across the board” changes they were making, from their advertisements to the look of the interior...

For reading instruction to be effective, not just any sensory pathway through the brain is acceptable. The targeted paths need to be language-specific and phonological-specific.

« While the medications can have a powerful effect on how children behave in the classroom, they do little to improve how they learn. »

Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it.

« Nearly ninety years later, the treatment of A.D.H.D. hasn’t moved very far beyond Bradley’s discovery.»https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/magazine/adhd-medication-treatment-research.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Great essay by Sarah Oberle @sarahoberle.bsky.social on teacher PD!
thenext30years.substack.com/p/sarah-ober...

“There is evidence that spelling interventions are more effective at supporting struggling readers than interventions focused on reading.”~Shananahan, 1984

I’ve switched my focus from decoding to encoding interventions & have seen remarkable improvements in both his reading AND spelling abilities!

On the AEI Report Card podcast, the host asked me to list two common math education myths. I shared these:
1️⃣ Myth: Timed tests cause math anxiety
2️⃣ Myth: Procedural fluency works against conceptual understanding
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5 générateurs de dés à histoires en ligne:
Les dés à histoires sont couramment utilisés pour stimuler l’imagination, faciliter la narration et structurer des idées de manière ludique.
outils-visuels.fr/5-generateur...

YouTube video by Information NMCUSD Presentation on Math Fact Fluency - February 27, 2025 (UPDATED)

2/2 California parent David Margulies presenting to his school board on the importance of fluency with math facts.
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Interleaving practice can surpass blocked practice in improving learning outcomes. A study from 2022 provides an easy to understand and apply example for the classroom implementation.

https://theeffortfuleducator.com/2025/03/10/easy-application-of-interleaving-in-the-classroom/

Study examines whether teachers actually benefit from collaboration and finds that not all collaboration improves teaching, but high-quality, useful collaboration strengthens instructional quality, which in turn improves student achievement. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's half term, which means I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away.

Simply *repost* this post for your chance to win.

I will choose a winner at random this Saturday (22nd February).

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Direct & explicit instruction is highly effective for #multilingual learners- it provides clarity, structure and focused language input.

However, consider scaffolding, cultural references & balancing interaction to ensure it's truly impactful.

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#EAL #edusky

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Created this classroom with UFLI links and resources and all FREE! Thank you @playfulclassroom.bsky.social for creating the Google Drive with so many resources in one!

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If the barrier is gaps in basic alphabetic code knowledge, target this.

If the barrier is blending words, target this.

If decoding is fine but the barrier is dysfluency, target this.

Identifying and addressing individual needs will *always outperform general strategies on the basis of labels.

The reality is that dyslexia simply means relatively extreme difficulties with learning to recognise and/or spell words.

The remediation of these difficulties should work in exact the same way for those with and without a diagnosis: identify the barriers to reading development and address them.

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Des résultats alarmants en maths : 15 % des élèves de CM1 n’ont pas le niveau minimal (TIMSS 2023)
cafepedagogique.net/2024/12/04/d...

Punaise, les amis de @framasoft.org ont encore frappé !
Nouvelle appli en approche avec Lokas qui permettra d'enregistrer et transcrire ses réunions en toute confidentialité.
Aperçu -) lokas.app/fr/accueil/