Pacing Lessons for Optimal Learning Planning for good pacing—the timing of presenting elements and keeping kids engaged—is crucial to a lesson's success. Here's how to get it right.

“Whether you're teaching face-to-face or virtually, choosing lesson content well and implementing sound instructional strategies are just two components of a powerful lesson.” (via @ascdofficial.bsky.social) buff.ly/goFlpRb #EduSky

Teacher Morale in 2026: Five Takeaways See five highlights from EdWeek's annual, national survey of U.S. teachers.

What is the state of teacher morale in 2026? (via @EdWeek.org) buff.ly/FPYLb0b #EduSky

Home Home The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.

It’s not too late to celebrate National Poetry Month! Look to Poets.org for ideas. buff.ly/cGZZnfi #PoetryMonth #ELASky

“The more you learn about how the brain works, the better you can teach the brains that are in the room.” —Cathleen Beachboard, High School Teacher

🎧 Tune in! @cathleenbeachbd.bsky.social shares her 3 best, brain-based strategies for helping students remember what they’ve learned: https://apple.co/4ceLWhB

Keeping Discussions Going, Pt. 1 small moves that I lean on to extend and deepen whole-class discussions

Class discussions fizzling out? Here are some “moves” to keep things going. (via The Broken Copier) buff.ly/5jx1y4H #AcademicSky #EduSky

Retrieval Practice: One Minute to Better Student Learning Retrieval practice, says cognitive scientist Pooja Agarwal in this Q&A, is an instructional game-changer.

One retrieval practice and productive struggle. (via @ascdofficial.bsky.social) buff.ly/4lA1Ijd #EduSky

The Replacement Skills Approach: Teaching Behavior Instead Of Managing It Punishment only goes so far. What changes behavior long-term is viewing it through a skill lens, then teaching students the skills they need for real growth.

“One of the biggest discoveries was this: Most common misbehaviors in schools are typically the result of skill gaps, not character flaws.” A different approach to classroom management on @cultofpedagogy.bsky.social. buff.ly/GsnY5H2 #EduSky

Link Roundup: Gamification and Game-Based Learning Gamification can provide new means of engagement with your students — or it can distract them from the edu- part of edutainment.

Game on with this round-up of links on games-based education and #gamification. buff.ly/Vk33l5K #EduSky

Wolfram|Alpha Examples: Space & Astronomy Astronomy data and computations. Star charts, astronomical events, solar systems, stars, exoplanets, galaxies, star clusters, nebulae, black holes, space technology, astrophysics, celestial…

Mooning over space since the conclusion of the Artemis II mission? 🌕 See what you can learn about Space & Astronomy #WithWolfram! buff.ly/nBfX2Dx #STEM

Moving Beyond Open and Closed Questions: Strategies for Teachers that Fuel K–2 Students’ Science Thinking and Discourse

“By incorporating productive prompts into your practice, you can open the door for richer conversations that build students’ science thinking from the earliest grades.” (via NSTA Blog) buff.ly/6cTqTbJ #EduSky #STEM

key word – concision Concision is not the same as brevity. A short piece of writing can be wasteful with its words, and a long piece can be meaning-full right to the last sentence. Getting concise is about getting clea…

With academic writing, genre matters—and within that genre, there is an opportunity to make things more concise. (via patter) buff.ly/ms8GGAT #AcademicSky

The Learning Scientists Blog View all of our posts on our website!

One UDL principle is the idea of student choice. It turns out agency in learning might have some cognitive effects on student engagement as well. (via @learningscientists.bsky.social) buff.ly/PBYHNuQ #AcademicSky

Classroom Routines That Support Mathematical Thinking Elementary teachers can create opportunities throughout the day for students to strengthen their math knowledge.

“Whether your students are estimating steps while walking in the hallway or finding a partner with a matching expression, these routines create opportunities for math thinking across the day.” (via @Edutopia.org) buff.ly/DrUgJ0F #iTeachMath #EduSky

The building blocks of math students need to excel A flexible understanding of how numbers work is as important to math as phonics is to reading

“Teachers aren’t often taught to look at math learning as a whole […] — something that some instructional coaches say would help emphasize the importance of how early number sense connects to advanced math.” buff.ly/8ef1Voj #EduSky #AcademicSky #MathSky #iTeachMath

College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree More than three years after ChatGPT debuted, AI has become a part of everyday life — and professors and students are still figuring out how or if they should use it.

In classrooms, perceptions of AI use look different between students and teachers. (via @NPR.org) buff.ly/TUTV7WH #EduSky

Supporting Teachers in Implementing the Science of Learning By rooting their professional development in learning science, this district helped teachers figure out which strategies to use more frequently,and which to retire.

The science of learning enriches teaching by allowing students to taken in information in evidence-based ways. How can teachers be supported in its implementation? (via @Edutopia.org) buff.ly/OR5EApR #EduSky #AcademicSky

A Reader’s Guide to Poetry for National Poetry Month - JSTOR Daily Our best stories about poetry and poems offer free links to poems from contemporary and classic American poets.

April, a most poetic month! Celebrate by reading poems shared by @JSTOR.org. buff.ly/kydHdDI #PoetryMonth

How Writing Changes Mathematical Thought | Quanta Magazine David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology.

Mathematicians used to rely on physical models to gain new insights. “There was an attitude in which part of studying math was to cultivate this physical intuition for the forms that equations represented,” said historian of mathematics David Dunning.

How to Design AI-Resistant Writing Before, During, and After the Writing Process - Spencer Education Currently reading:

John Spencer considers what AI-resistant writing might look like during each stage of the writing process. buff.ly/CcwWErU #EduSky #AcademicSky

The UDL Guidelines The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into…

Do you know what #UDL is? Explore the CAST site to see how designing with learner agency in mind can enrich student learning more generally. (Or perhaps “universally”?) buff.ly/XwevGtY #EduSky

Follow the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo #WithWolfram—trajectory data, 3D visualizations and both Earth-centric and Moon-centric views.
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A little parent math talk with kids might really add up - The Hechinger Report Mentioning numbers during everyday activities could be more beneficial than workbooks and exercises

“Perhaps the most inspiring conclusion from Silver’s analysis is that the association between a parent’s math talk and a child’s math performance was as strong for a low-income child as it was for a high-income child.” (via @HechingerReport.org) buff.ly/ISrHZag #AcademicSky #MathSky #iTeachMath

Poetry through a Computational Thinking Lens Poetry is structured. Poetry is chaos. How does poetry connect with computational thinking?

“The humanities — and, indeed, poetry — are well suited to computational study.” buff.ly/GWXYJQi #PoetryMonth

When a Box Is No Longer a Castle: Restoring Wonder in a Screen-Filled World - EdSurge News In a world dominated by screens offering all sorts of diversions, writes early education teacher Hema Khatri, children need help recapturing their ...

“The world is louder now. Faster. More digital than ever before. But a box is still a box. A child is still a child. And inside every child, a castle is still waiting to be built.” (via @EdSurge.com) buff.ly/iPLUC29 #EduSky #AcademicSky

Improving Multiple-Choice Retrieval Practice — The Learning Scientists Today I review a series of experiments that extends previous research by having students provide justifications for their MC answers. As in other techniques for retrieval, answer justification has the...

New Post: "Improving Multiple-Choice Retrieval Practice" by @drcindynebel.bsky.social

www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/4/...

A screenshot of the part of the accessibility settings with the option of “Require alt text before posting” selected

Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!

Teacher-Led or Student-Centered? What the Research Says About Equity What recent large-scale data suggest about narrowing the achievement gap.

“Future teachers should be prepared to select and sequence pedagogies based not on ideology or fashion, but on evidence about how learning develops, particularly for novices and students with fewer academic and social resources.” buff.ly/pJ6qw9y (via Science of Learning) #EduSky #AcademicSky

The Five Biggest Pitfalls of Collaborative Grouping (And How to Avoid Them) - Spencer Education Currently reading:

Groupwork has its potential pitfalls. How can you make it better? (via Spencer Education) buff.ly/u66yZqt #EduSky

What worked and what didn't with a cellphone ban at a Kentucky school Keeping students off their devices is the new norm in many schools. We talked to students and educators at one Kentucky school to see how it's working.

An exploration of one Kentucky school’s cell phone ban via @NPR.org, showing a variety of perspectives from student views to a surprise uptick in library circulation. buff.ly/W1elXyz #EduSky #EdTech

6 Common Teacher Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them From rushing through prep to misjudging students’ readiness for a task to teaching the way they were taught, experienced teachers talk about some of the mistakes they’ve made.

Sometimes classroom problems can stem from mistakes—but with those mistakes come possible solutions. (via @Edutopia.org) buff.ly/c9COwVq #EduSky