Learning With Busy Bee

I’m tired of cognitive science being misconstrued and reduced to “just tell them the steps” and that somehow gets labeled as explicit instruction.

Because that’s not what explicit instruction is.

When it gets flattened into lecture-only math lessons, students end up memorizing procedures without understanding what they mean or when to use them. They go straight to an algorithm even when it doesn’t fit the situation, and they can’t explain what operations like division are actually doing. It turns math into a sequence of moves to recall instead of a system to understand.

Explicit instruction is supposed to make thinking visible, not replace it.

Help Students Manage Big Emotions — Low-Prep Journal for School Counselors This self regulation journal is designed for upper elementary students and gives them the chance to practice important self regulation strategies in order to better understand and manage their feelings. Students will learn which feelings and actions are associated with each color and explore self re...

Strategies for supporting executive functioning skills!

Morphology matters! That is why I created morphology for younger kids. My slides take you through each step of explaining a new morpheme in a way that makes sense for younger students! Just say MORPH26 for the link!

Start 🏖️ Summer Break with a Plan Spelling rules posters that use the most common spelling generalizations.