The Cognitive Corner

We Don’t Need More SEL Programs. We Need Better Teaching The SEL outcomes schools value most—confidence, motivation, belonging, and resilience—are byproducts of effective teaching, not programs teachers must add to their already full plates. In recent years, school districts have sought new ways to support what they call the “whole child,” expanding their focus beyond…

Forty Years Later, and We Are Still Talking About Learning Styles In 1983, Howard Gardner introduced his theory of multiple intelligences in his landmark book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Gardner argued that intelligence is not a single general factor. Rather, human beings possess a plurality of “intelligences” or modalities (e.g., linguistic-verbal, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical,…

The Science of Practice: How K–12 Teachers Can Make Learning Stick I hear it all the time in frustrated teachers’ classrooms:“These kids should have learned this last year!”“What did they even teach them?”“How could they have passed the previous grade without learning this essential skill?” While this frustration is sometimes justified—a critical skill may indeed…