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How can we meet teachers where they are & understand why they do what they do before trying to get them to do something better? 31 quotes in 31 days from my new book, The Making of an Educator. Education International CTF/FCE Albert Shanker Institute Pasi Sahlberg Vivienne Porritt OBE FCCT FRSA Richard Gerver Michael T. O'Connor

This paper reviews strong converging neurophys evidence for embodied meaning, lays out theory. Pulvermüller, F. (2013). How neurons make meaning: Brain mechanisms for embodied and abstract-symbolic semantics. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17(9), 458–470. doi.org/10.1016/j.tics

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New results! Neural subspaces are not specialized. They are like general workspaces. Recycling of prefrontal subspaces dynamically multiplexes information doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… #neuroscience

#6 "The role of evidence in improving teaching is often overstated. It's become absorbed into systems of top-down accountability & exaggerated emphases on effect sizes". 31 quotes in 31 days from The Making of an Educator. Visible Learning Michael Fullan Yong Zhao, Ph.D

"...designing learning for every student." 💯

When leaders recognize their thinking biases, they are more likely to navigate complex education decisions with objectivity and intention. hubs.li/Q03lgPZz0

Pupils working in groups: Following his degree, my son succeeded in being appointed to a Project Manager post at Microsoft. 50 positions. 5000 applicants. The most important skills, tested during interview role-plays, were teamwork and leadership. Knowledge was irrelevant.

Day 27 (a need): We don't know what causes most brain disorders. For 3 caused by single-genes, we've known for >30 years (Huntington's, Fragile X, and a rare Alzheimer's). We still cannot cure them. There's a lot more to cures than "find the gene". #ElusiveCures30

"The dogmatic attitude is clearly related to the tendency to verify our laws and schemata by seeking to apply them and to confirm them, even to the point of neglecting refutations. The critical attitude is one of readiness to change them—to test them; to refute them; to falsify

Ask students how they know things. Do it judiciously but always keep it in mind. And always let students ask you questions even when the answer to you might seem obvious. Reasoning is always essential.

#18 If we work in a university, we aren’t paid to be ideologues, impervious to any disconfirming data. 31 quotes in 31 days from The Making of an Educator. Joel Westheimer The Sutton Trust Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa Boston College Lynch School Tiffany Bastin

#18 “Being in the middle isn’t easy. It involves being unshakable about values yet open to evidence about the most effective strategies to achieve them”. 31 quotes in 31 days from The Making of an Educator. Andy Buck steve munby Vivienne Porritt OBE FCCT FRSA Michael Fullan

"Summary: Despite popular myths about left- and right-brain thinking, research shows the hemispheres truly do divide up certain tasks—especially visual spatial perception..."

A sensible, straight-up blog post on the "Growing Pains in the Science of Reading Movement," by Catlin Goodrow.

𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸? Don't expect simple mappings between mind and brain. Check out this piece I wrote for Aeon. aeon.co/essays/how-the…

Our paper "Picturing mathematicians: Examining how gender and math anxiety relate to students’ representations of mathematicians in late elementary and middle school" is now available online! Read it for free until July 3 here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l5K451Y-XW47

Socioeconomic status and brain development: insights and theoretical p... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Did you know early recognition of mental health symptoms is key to providing the support they need. Correct answer is in the comments below! 👇 Which of these behaviours might indicate a child or teen is struggling with their mental health?