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Speaker Proposals: Saturday, May 2, 2026 researchED returns to New York City for the second annual researchED NYC Conference on Saturday, May 2nd. Sponsored by New York City Public Schools through the Office of Manhattan Superintendent G...

researchED NYC 2026 is May 2nd. Proposals are due December 15.

If you're doing something interesting and evidence-based in a classroom or school, submit a proposal to share it.

I hope to see you there!

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Street et al.'s paper (with @sigrunertesvag.bsky.social) on preservice teachers' cognitive load is the best thing I've read today. Teachers experience a variety of intense cognitive loads, and this is a productive approach to explore them. doi.org/10.1016/j.ta...

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How to Smell like a Dog, with Ed Yong Spotify video

Loved the last episode of @sciencevs.bsky.social with Ed Yong. "What is happening [to scientific infrastructure] in this country is happening because science is bad for tyrants and always has been. ... You have got to stop the tyranny, not try to make a better case for why science should exist."

A promotional image for NYC Public Schools. The top left corner features the NYC Public Schools logo with 'NYC' in green, blue, and orange letters. Below the logo, the text reads: 'NYCPS is anticipating record hiring this year! SMALLER CLASSES, MORE TEACHERS, BIGGER IMPACT. Apply now: TEACHNYC.NET' The background is dark blue and all text is in white.

Did you know? @nycschools.bsky.social is anticipating record hiring this year for teacher positions across the city! 🍎

If you are a New York State-certified teacher or are on track to be certified by September 1st, apply now to increase your chances of landing your dream job: bit.ly/teachnyc-cuny

I just submitted something to NERA that aspires to be what you're looking for. Please let me know if you'd like me to email a copy.

Leveraging Network Models for Educational Assessment: A Case Study for Analyzing Cognitive Load Patterns in Laparoscopic Surgical Training Effective educational assessment is essential for optimizing training programs, especially in high-stakes fields like virtual surgical training. This study leverages network models in a case study to ...

I will never stop thinking it's cool when other researchers cite my dissertation.
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A ggplot that shows how cohorts of students change their relative performance on state tests

I spent most of the day compiling and cleaning data so I could make graphs like this for any NYC school.

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Picture of AERA iPresentation gallery sorted for "most popular." Kris's presentation is listed third.

Proud to share that my iPoster was the third "most popular" of more than a thousand shared during #AERA2025.

Thanks to everyone who engaged with this work, Division A for selecting it, and AERA for including a virtual participation option.

aera25-aera.ipostersessions.com?s=77-B3-8A-F...

Try their COIB, too.

BTW, here's a direct link to my iPoster aera25-aera.ipostersessions.com/default.aspx...

If anyone else is having as much difficulty as I did trying to participate in #AERA2025 and access the i-presentation gallery, DM me for the link.

This may close out what I can do with Load Reduction Leadership without much more involved IRB and COIB processes. So, it may be a while before I can publish another article on this theory.

This experience has not led me to abandon load reduction leadership as a theory to explain school-level performance differences. Applying the Duhem-Quine thesis has led me to reject using Quality Review documents to measure leaders' impacts on cognitive load beyond the most extreme cases.

The present study included 120+ Quality Review documents and was not limited to extreme cases. With 25% of documents analyzed, it was not on track to reach significance, even at p < .05.

Those studies analyzed 14 and 30 NYC School Quality Review documents, representing opposite ends of school impact and discipline, respectively, and both had significance p < .001.

I am abandoning this study.

The study aimed to expand on patterns identified in two smaller load reduction leadership studies that explored smaller sets of extreme examples using similar methods.

Thanks for taking the time to review this and offer feedback. Those are good ideas, and I'll incorporate them into the next iteration. So far, my work on this has been chiefly conference papers, but it's all at loadreductionleadership.com/publications.

For context, this will be embedded in my i-Presentation (lrl.short.gy/DraftPoster) and is my first attempt at making a video like this.

I'm looking for feedback!

Here's a 3.5-minute video summarizing my 2025 AERA paper:
lrl.short.gy/DraftVid

How could I make this shorter?

What should I definitely keep in future iterations?

What else should change?

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As someone doing research outside a university environment, I would absolutely use this.

Hi, Howie! I'm a big fan of your work. I look forward to your posts for delightful brain breaks and periodically share your content with math teachers I support.

It's super cool to see my dissertation cited by other researchers within its first year.
The jist is there: leaders who overload teachers don't improve schools, but CLT-aligned leadership practices do... even if the publication year and and the framework's name are a little off.

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Drafted my first pre-registration for a educational research study, feeling cute.

sreereg.icpsr.umich.edu/sreereg/subE...

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Cognitive load while teaching has always been an implicit, vague part of load reduction leadership. It's fantastic to see folks explicitly measuring teachers' cognitive loads and how different instructional materials impact them.

Measurement of Teacher’s Orchestration Load: A Framework and a Case Study on Tool Flexibility Teacher orchestration in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments demands managing multiple tasks across different social levels, often under tight constraints, leading to an incr...

Legit excited to discover Ishari Amarasinghe and Davinia Hernandez-Leo's orchestration load framework that explores teacher's cognitive loads while leading instruction.

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link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Kathleen Lynch's article applying behavioral economics to teacher PD parallels many of load reduction leadership's PL-related conclusions but takes a different path getting there.
Lots of great recommendations for running and studying professional learning.

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I want to pre-register my next couple of studies, and am leaning toward the Registry of Efficacy and Effectiveness Studies (REES; sreereg.icpsr.umich.edu).

Does anyone have advice or recommendations for pre-registering educational research?

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Distracted boyfriend meme template. Boyfriend = school leaders. Girlfriend = make it easier for employees to do their jobs. Girl in red = give teachers lots more new things to do and worry about.

In lots of industries managers streamline workflows to improve performance... that's not necessarily the case in ours.

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Thank you for sharing this. It's a lovely articulation of how GenAI cannot compensate for users with too much hubris and not enough relevant background knowledge.