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Meta-strategic thinking is not just reflection. It’s awareness in action. When we give students the tools to pause, plan, monitor, and adjust their thinking, not one-off strategies, we prepare them for rigorous learning and life beyond the classroom. #edu

3️⃣ Help students “chew and remix” the content to make it meaningful. We talk a lot about productive struggle but often students get too little time to grapple w/ complex ideas. This is where they build the cognitive muscles to turn random facts & figures into usable knowledge.

2️⃣ Teach key learn-to-learn skills. The 1st move is “size it up, then break it down” then “scan the brain’s hard drive” to connect the new to the known. These 1st two get students to slow down, think, & analyze before acting. They build the cognitive muscles for deep #learning.

1️⃣ Build what’s called the “craftmanship of learning.” We forget learning is a craft just like carpentry or painting. You have to learn to improve your technique as you go! Leveling up your learning means knowing what cognitive tools and moves to use. #edu

While #metacognition is all the rage, it’s not just enough to build learning power. What’s needed too is meta-strategic thinking, a fancy word for helping students think about & shape their learning moves. Let’s look at 3 ways to build it using the sci of learning. 🧠 #edchat

I’ve got a new favorite book. So much awesome research synthesized to empower students to learn how to learn…😍🤓 #BloomandGrowForever #Unitedgreenmen @Ready4rigor @AHS_SeanBaker @torresv4msu

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Rebuilding Students’ Learning Power with Learn-to-Learn Skills https://t.co/s1UM22h0Ds via @ready4rigor @CultOfPedagogy

In Rebuilding Students' Learning Power, @Ready4rigor goes beyond turnkey strategies to teach you how to coach your students to higher levels of cognition. Get your copy: https://t.co/mWUrhRJPip

In a new book, Zaretta Hammond (@Ready4rigor) likens the role of teachers to that of athletic trainers building students' academic muscle. #EWOpinion @LarryFerlazzo

#HispanicHeritageMonth is a time to honor the threads of culture that shape community. Chávez’s words calls us to justice in #edu: Culture is not extra credit, it’s entry to deeper learning and respecting identity sets students up for the productive struggle that fuels it. 🧠.

And that’s what my new book Rebuilding Students’ Learning Power is all about. It gives #teachers a road map for coaching students to grow their own learning power & reclaim the cognitive capital too often left underdeveloped. You can get it here! https://t.co/TYFAtX9fzn #edu

Here, I sit down w/ @LarryFerlazzo in an @EducationWeek Classroom Q&A to talk about what it will take to change that. We dug into the sci of learning, how to disrupt “cognitive redlining,” and why helping students move from compliance to curiosity is key:

When schools closed in 2020, it exposed what was already true: too many students hadn’t learned how to without excessive scaffolding. Without skills to be cognitively independent, unfinished learning became what the World Bank calls learning poverty, and inequities only deepened.

Grateful to talk with @Larryferlazzo in this new EdWeek column about the big idea behind my new book with @CorwinPress, Rebuilding Students’ Learning Power. Check out the link below. 👇🏾

These are the kinds of practical moves I break down every month in the Ready4Rigor 🧠 newsletter. If you want resources that make coaching for #edu equity doable, come join the community:

💡Tip 3: Practice noticing and naming. Be specific. Point out where a student took a risk or pushed through. The brain is wired to remember mistakes. We have to help it linger on wins long enough to change the narrative.

💡Tip 2: Help them rewrite their explanatory story.  When a student says “I’m not a math person,” don’t let it stick. Guide them to reframe: “I can learn math in my own way.” The story they tell themselves drives what they believe is possible.

💡Tip 1: Watch your words. Every comment shapes how students see themselves. “Good job” is vague. Try, “I saw how you stretched your thinking there.” That kind of feedback links effort and strategy to their learner identity.