Three primary characteristics in forming beneficial learning habits are (1) attention, (2) focus, and (3) purposeful repetition. When improving learning patterns, one can examine one's behavior, ...

Innovation is rightly described as a creative and often collaborative process. As a result, we usually talk about “making space” for innovation, rather than “enforcing rules for innovation.” Rigidity ...

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 7: David C. Novak(C), vice chairman and president of Tricon Global restaurants, offers pieces of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) to traders on the floor of the New York Stock ...

A lot has been published lately on “habits” -- how to create good ones and how to break bad ones. So, last week I asked: How can we help students develop good habits? Today, I’m lucky enough to have ...

If you don't know how to learn well, you're basically screwed. So say Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel, authors of "Make It Stick: The Science Of Successful Learning." "We need to keep ...

Whenever we decide to do any physical or mental work, our brain fires neurons in different regions including the sensory-motor region, the neocortex, and the prefrontal lobes. But the beauty is that ...

Editor’s note: Deborah Meier is in China for three weeks where she has been invited to give a keynote address in Shanghai at the World Conference on Transformation of Classroom Teaching. She also ...

We don’t have to look very far—especially in this bombastic political season—for evidence that many people seem more inclined to lob rhetorical grenades than seek understanding or civility. And the ...