Tens of thousands of American educators have participated in professional development about the science of learning. But those insights can be frustratingly far removed from the daily work of a busy classroom teacher.
Our “Cognitive Science in the Classroom” webinar series is designed to help close that gap, by bringing the “science” to the front lines of learning and busting some popular edu-myths along the way.
In Faster Fluency, our Teacher-in-Residence Kyair Butts teams up with lauded cognitive scientists Maryanne Wolf of UCLA and Melissa Orkin of Crafting Minds for a detailed, actionable conversation about automaticity, fluency, and higher-order thinking. On November 3 at 4:30pm ET, they’ll explain which instructional practices build fluency without reducing learning to rote memorization, drawing from their experiences with RAVE-O and exploring real examples from Kyair’s middle-school classroom in Baltimore.
