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Family Matters: Do Obligations Encourage Teens to Play it Safe?
Theresa Cheng
Theresa Cheng

The teenage years have long been described as a period...

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Mindfulness in the Classroom: What’s All the Buzz About?
Rina Deshpande
Rina Deshpande

“Mindfulness” is a buzzword popping up everywhere from the New...

How to Recognize PTSD in the Classroom… And Why it Matters
LaJoi Royston
LaJoi Royston

I recently watched a Ted Talk1 by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris...

Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform our Schools by Ron Ritchhart
Rebecca Gotlieb
Rebecca Gotlieb

Do your schools and learning communities promote curiosity, innovation, collaboration,...

The Difference Between Science and Science-Sounding Solutions
Gabriella Hirsch
Gabriella Hirsch

From the moment a child is born (and in some...

Starting Early: The Benefits of Teaching Counterintuitive Concepts in Childhood
Ashle Bailey-Gilreath
Ashle Bailey-Gilreath

Science seems to always challenge our intuitive understanding of the...

The Lollipop Problem: How Cultural Bias Makes it Harder to Learn
Myra Laldin
Myra Laldin

I went to a school in the foothills of the...

Language Nutrition & the Developing Brain
Rose Hendricks
Rose Hendricks

We’re told that a picture is worth a thousand words,...

3 Things Neuroscience Teaches Us About the Changing “Teenage Brain”
Kathryn Mills
Kathryn Mills

Adolescence is the period between childhood and adulthood. And though...

The Dangers of Remembering What You Learned
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

When teachers say we want our students to learn, we...

Love/Hate: The Long, Complicated Relationship between Research & Education
Stephanie Fine Sasse
Stephanie Fine Sasse

Anyone who has ever stood in front of a classroom...

Rebecca Gotlieb
Rebecca Gotlieb

Resilience—the ability to recover from a set-back—is one of the...

Rebecca Gotlieb
Rebecca Gotlieb

Laurence Steinberg, professor of psychology at Temple University, provides a...

Rebecca Gotlieb
Rebecca Gotlieb

In her 2014 book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human...