A weekly collection of education-related news from around the web.

“Rebuilding Students’ Learning Power With “Learn To Learn” Skills”

“We can teach our hearts out, but in the end, only the learner learns. So, how do we get students to own their learning? That’s the question I’m answering in Rebuilding Students’ Learning Power (Corwin, 2025). Rather than simply talking to students about how their brain learns or trying to motivate them, we want to […]

“The Power Of Centering Student Exemplars”

“Rather, this is a post about what can happen in the classroom when you go beyond tossing student work up on the walls and actually center student work in the classroom itself. As much as I love the bulletin board — especially with some diligent student aides to help make updating it manageable! — the […]

An Excellent, Holistic Approach To Academic Integrity In An Age Of AI

“Susan Morrow and Katherine Switzer revealed a different approach to accountability: the power of relationships, transparency, and explainability to ensure the integrity of results. The following steps can help you, and your students, take action to ensure academic integrity.”

Issues

Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.

Readers include teachers, school leaders, university overseers, conference organizers, think tank workers, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and people who are simply interested in what’s happening in education. They say it helps them keep tabs on what matters most in the conversation surrounding schools, teaching, learning, and more.

Peter Nilsson

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