Leadership
Creating Schools That Learn
In my work helping school leaders lead change, one of the biggest challenges a leader and their team often faces is the behavioral shift required to build and nurture the human ability to change. Many schools and districts are working on implementing strategic plans that seek to transform the industrial
Visible Learning
Instruction that Builds Lasting Learning
Without question, Professor John Hattie’s Visible Learning research has made a significant contribution to the quality of instructional decision-making. Knowing the effect sizes of a
Unpacking Effective Project-Based Learning
Visible Learning Educators all over the world are buzzing about John Hattie's research on visible learning. In his research, Hattie asserts that "almost everything works" to
Massed Versus Spaced Out Practice
From John Hattie’s research on effectiveness of various educational strategies we have learned that spaced practice, instead of massed practice, is significant. In fact, it
Teaching Methods
Five Recommendations for Increasing the Impact of Summer Learning Time
Why do meta-analyses of summer school suggest that it’s not very useful in ensuring students’ learning? If you follow John Hattie’s work, you know that
Modern Literacies: Helping Students Navigate Our Complex World
Listen to Julie Stern discussing learning transfer on the Leaders Coaching Leaders podcast with Peter DeWitt: This blog is part four of a series on learning
Disciplinary Literacy: Empowering Students to be Knowledge Producers
This blog is part three of a series on learning transfer. For more on teaching for transfer, see this first post and this second post. “Why do we have to
