Early childhood is a developmental stage highly sensitive to growth across multiple domains in ways that are interwoven and concurrent. Our instructional decisions can maximize this development by using research to identify what works best in teaching, learning, and development. We take our teaching and
It’s been 9 years since Professor John Hattie’s Visible Learning was first published and his research took the education world by storm. Since then, there have been more and more books about Visible Learning published every year by John Hattie and other education experts like
While the Visible Learning research has been spread all over the world and has been transforming schools and the way we teach, we can’t be blind to the questions and criticisms that have also arisen from that spotlight. I’d like to take this opportunity to address
The Challenge Konocti Unified is located in the town of Clearlake, California. Only 8% of Clearlake residents hold a four-year college degree or higher, the median household income for a family of four is $25,000, hovering just over the federal poverty line, and the city
Weeks of 16-hour days, endless re-arranging of furniture, and final decisions about bathroom passes and rules for pencil sharpening—all were about to pay off. I was so tired from spending so much time preparing for my students, I wasn’t even really that nervous on my first