The increase in conversations about how to serve the overall needs of students, including their social and emotional needs, is one of the silver linings of education during the pandemic. While the ...

If you’ve been falling short of some major goal, it might not be your effort or motivation; it could be that you’ve set the wrong kind of goal. There are two types of goals; performance goals and ...

For someone to be a valuable employee, it's vital that he keeps growing and learning. Setting goals is an excellent way to do this, because you can chart progress for your workforce. Performance goals ...

Setting and achieving goals helps kids (and grown-ups) build self-esteem — and teaches perseverance, too. When children set goals, it helps them practice executive function skills like planning.

In the last 30 years, a series of innovative findings in neuroscience, metacognition, and learning have inexorably changed how we think about educating students. The notions that learning is ...

The major in economics is designed for students who wish to explore the theoretical and empirical techniques of economics, and to learn how these techniques complement other perspectives learned at ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

(This is the third post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Years before my school district trained me in “Marzano’s Classroom Instruction That Works,” common sense ...