Leveling up engagement with Tabletop Twitter! Have your students write a summary, come up with a one-word gist, and add a graphic.✨ Unleash the power of imagination and collaboration in the classroom. 🤝🧠 💡Idea from lead4ward docs.google.com/presentation/d…

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🚨Short Answer Update Alert! During response rounds, you can now: ✅ View student writing in real time ✅ Track word count ✅ Pause students ✅ Send writing back for revision These updates grow directly from your feedback! More updates soon!

Full segment below; link to column: nytimes.com/2025/10/09/opi… David Brooks, I would be glad to give you an overview of the work in these states. I was the first person to write about the Southern Surge; it’s work I have been following for years. My own overview:

While speaking to a room full of parents, grandparents, & educators the other night, I referenced these two books & asked how many had read them. No one raised their hands. If you fit into any of the categories mentioned, or work with children, I implore you to read these books.

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Someone shared these great 💡 ideas and I had to share as well! We all have 🧰 tools that we live using. Why not app-smash to make our products even better?! ❤️ Ahmed Saud and Dr. Med Kharbach for the win on this graphic!

Phone bans in schools motivate kids to read. When a Kentucky district eliminated phones, students checked out 2.3x as many books from the library. At one school, twice as many students borrowed books in the first month as all of last year. Without smartphones, kids get smarter.

New evidence on the effect of cell phone bans in schools just dropped. "Enforcement of cellphone bans in schools led to a significant increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year, potentially suggesting a

First study to show a causal connection between school cellphone bans and learning rather than just a correlation. hechingerreport.org/proof-points-c…

Responsive teaching: 7 guiding principles arc.educationapps.vic.gov.au/learning/sites…

How to design a school that will engage boys and bring out the best in them? The Boys' Latin School in Maryland drew ideas from The Anxious Generation: They went phone free early, and gave more and better playtime: baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/progra… American Institute for Boys and Men

"We find significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the cellphone ban after that initial adjustment period." This is big: first U.S. causal study of cellphone bans via NBER by David Figlio & Umut Ӧzek Paging Jonathan Haidt Jean Twenge (author of 10 RULES, GENERATIONS) Scott Galloway

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The most incredible part of this report might be when Harvard acknowledges that its pedagogical crisis is partly due to coddling underprepared students: “For the past decade or so, the College has been exhorting faculty to remember that some students arrive less prepared for

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I have a spooky story for you. It should scare the anyone who wants educational opportunity for less privileged children. American elementary schools have been tracking five and six-year olds for decades. That’s right. Tracking kindergarteners. 😱 The practice is called

While students may have learning style *preferences* (e.g., visual vs. verbal), they do not actually learn better when receiving information via their preferred learning style. This has been empirically tested over and over again. The most common confusion: Q: "But topic XYZ