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Can brain scans tell us anything useful about classroom teaching?

My new book explores what fMRI research can reveal about:
🧠 Attention
🧠 Memory
🧠 Decision-making
🧠 Metacognition

No MRI scanners required in classrooms!

I’d love your contribution to the research.

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https://bit.ly/4usk1R4

Belonging is NOT the same as "fitting in."

Diversity In The Classroom, with Bennie Kara Details to follow

Most teachers can explain retrieval practice.

Far fewer can explain why it works.

Even fewer schools apply the science of learning consistently across classrooms.

I’m gathering data to understand the gap between teacher confidence and school implementation.

Take part:

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https://bit.ly/4xlIjPk

The Largest Teacher Database on Science of Learning Explore teacher confidence in cognitive science, memory, metacognition and neuroscience. Contribute to the Science of Learning research.

What type of feedback does your school promote? Does it get fixated on a specific type?

Effective Feedback: Reduce Marking Workload (Guide to Feedback) ❓ Is marking and feedback improving learning in your school — or just increasing teacher workload?Book for your next training day https://ww...

Instructional coaching has a strong research base, but scaling it is difficult.

Plus, there is also growing interest in AI-assisted coaching.

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Can you spare 5 minutes to contribute to one of the UK’s largest teacher databases on the science of learning?

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https://bit.ly/4xDsUdx

Last night, I shared my 500th newsletter with 45,000 teachers.

Over ten years, twice a week, I share resources, discount codes, insights, blog posts, and early-bird tickets to events, as well as the odd sponsored material.

It is a real joy to have a network to share ideas with.

Here's the 500th edition: https://bit.ly/49SRIE1

Sign up if you want to be part of the community: https://bit.ly/4v1u40z

The Problem with Classroom Consistency

The Problem with Classroom Consistency How can schools improve teaching without reducing teachers to compliance? Explore why teaching coherence matters more than consistency.

How can teachers remain critical of neuroscience claims in education?

Science of Learning: What’s Happening in Students’ Brains? How fMRI research informs the science of learning and helps teachers improve memory, attention and classroom practice.

A teaching and learning problem that ALL schools face.

How Can Schools Improve Teaching? Consistency vs Coherence: A Leadership Problem How can schools improve teaching across classrooms without reducing...