Executive function is centered in the prefrontal cortex and involves cognitive strategies that include analyzing, problem solving, activating for work, prioritizing, assessing risk, and delaying gratification. This area of the brain does not fully mature until early adulthood, therefore P-12 educators create learning environments that support the growth of executive function and avoid punishing students who exhibit less mature skills.
These are just some of our favorite videos for teaching multiplication and division—you can also check out our multiplication and division videos playlist here (and be sure to subscribe to
The public educational company Scholastic came up with a way to keep kids busy and learning while school closures keep them home during coronavirus pandemic. Scholastic set up a ‘Learn
These activities give middle and high school students a chance to play with numbers—and learn at the same time.
Eighth-graders in the National Junior Honor Society at Florida’s Lecanto Middle School volunteered their time to hold a chemistry class for kindergartners. The middle-schoolers performed experiments designed to get the
Schools that prioritize emotional and social development and other soft skills over test scores enable students to perform better in school and later in life, according to a Northwestern University
Despite the numerous gadgets and apps that help us get through our days, research suggests that only 2% of people can multitask effectively. As for the remaining 98%? They’re actually
Students should learn to read nonfiction well, according to school principal and teacher Rita Platt. In this blog post, Platt describes how her school’s teachers encourage students to read nonfiction
To give his students repeated exposure to relevant vocabulary terms, the author relies on a tried-and-true tool: index cards.
Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another — by listening to the humans around them and “taking statistics” on the sounds they need to
Challenging problems with several paths to the solution encourage students to develop their understanding of mathematical concepts.
