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Learning through multiple modalities has a big impact on retention. Let's take a look at the research. A thread 1/5 🧵 https://t.co/s66DiupOJD

Last Friday, poet, educator and author Kwame Alexander came to the Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery, Alabama, for a frank discussion on race, love and hope. Check out the full recording of the conversation. https://t.co/qCyrlmPlOK

One of the little things in life that make teachers—and students—happy. https://t.co/0n2CMuoCXs

Teach young students what money is, why we need it, and how it is used. https://t.co/z1DKk4E073

Whether or not students have formal diagnoses, neurodivergence is present in most classrooms. These strategies center students' strengths and promote inclusive, welcoming learning spaces for all. https://t.co/duoXm1tadH

"I feel very strongly that we can only build resilience in young people by letting them have these experiences, by letting them try. They need to test their own boundaries and see what they can do." —Jenny Watson, @ScottishHead #MakingLearningMorePlayful with @LEGOFoundation https://t.co/XRqSWS87Z3

High school teacher @MarcusLuther6 shares how a classroom culture wall works. "It's a great way to end the week—and, more important, a great way to invest in our classroom community." https://t.co/I9jCbHnQdJ

Inside the brain, cutting-edge neuroimaging technology reveals how combining words and actions generates a more durable network of memory traces in the brain. "As a rule of thumb, the more modalities implicated, the better memory will be," the researchers conclude. 5/5

Acting out a word while saying it has an effect size of 1.23, making it a "reliable and effective mnemonic tool" to promote learning, pushing it well above the 0.8 threshold for a "large" impact. 4/5

In a 2022 meta-analysis—the most comprehensive to date on the topic—researchers combed through 183 studies across the last six decades to find the answer. It's a larger-than-expected bonus. 3/5

We know that spicing up a learning activity by adding movement can enhance student memory—pairing the word "airplane" with pretending to be one, for example—but do we know by how much? 2/5

“It must be understood that if the adults who are serving our young people are not well, then young people cannot be served well.” https://t.co/lgLhicqoQ5

Once upon a time...Teacher and author @mrs_frommert shares six examples of classroom-tested stories to teach middle and high school math concepts. https://t.co/HkCgq7yKWF

Visiting Bostonia Global @CajonValleyUSD https://t.co/Y6ceRHMdoW

Make recycling second nature for your students. https://t.co/cCVByuSkUr