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During training, whenever we introduce teachers to why forgetting is a good thing, there is always a sense of disbelief. That’s despite it also seeming to give great comfort to almost every educator who has experienced that, “But they knew this all yesterday. How could they possibly have forgotten it

We recently flagged an excellent overview of attention regulation skills, which was great on the principles but whose scope wasn’t to cover practical classroom strategies. So, conveniently those clever people at Edutopia have just released “30 ways to bring calm to noisy classrooms”. There are a couple of the usual

Given what a killer it is for learning, we’ve long thought that there isn’t enough importance placed on how to teach for “The Transient Information Effect” – when important information disappears before learners can process it. And so, we were excited to receive this incredibly timely substack from Dr Nidhi

The team at the Center for Curriculum Redesign have released an excellent read that looks at the complex concept of executive functions (EFs) and their crucial role in learning. The paper seeks to clarify the current splurge of research in EF, and proposes a user friendly framework that defines EFs