Chandler School

Use this checklist to ensure you’re being productive — and not engaging in the busy work associated with procrastivity.

1. Is the task on your to-do list?

2. Are you rationalizing?

students have become overwhelmed by the reading

Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.

It’s not that they don’t want to do the reading. It’s that they don’t know how. Middle and high schools have stopped asking them to.

To demonstrate that people have a range of thoughts based on situational context, I use what I’ve dubbed the “Cringe to Clutch o’Meter” – a visual tool that helps improve perspective-taking in children.

Week One

begin the school organizing/clean-out process by decluttering binders, folders, and notebooks

Week Two

well-designed MCQs could offer us the good stuff (“simplicty”) without the bad stuff (“merely surface learning”)

easy strategies to improve the quality of MCQs

make the alternative answers plausible

Elementary and middle-school students have made up significant ground since pandemic school closings in 2020 — but they are nowhere close to being fully caught up, according to the first detailed national study of how much U.S. students are recovering.

Overall in math, a subject where learning loss has been greatest, students have made up about a third of what they lost. In reading, they have made up a quarter, according to the new analysis of standardized test score data led by researchers at Stanford and Harvard.

Still, the gap between students from rich and poor communities — already huge before the pandemic — has widened.

“If anyone can dash off a paper written by AI, perhaps this will push classrooms to revive other ways of communicating knowledge, including project-based learning, Socratic seminars, writing papers with ChatGPT as a starting point where students take on the role of critical editor, and other assessment tools that aren’t so easily hacked,” like video projects and live-action play. “The fastest, cheapest way to ensure the work is done by the student is to use pencil and paper instead of typed papers.”

Once you bring your child’s thoughts to the surface, teach them how to talk back to their inner critic.

The goal is to help them recognize when they’re thinking in extremes and then challenge the thought.

Daily report cards are among the most powerful evidence-based tools that educators have to encourage better behavior in students. A strong report card system has a few key elements that make or break its effectiveness.

It is the responsibility of educators to be aware of executive functioning and to create environments that support all students.

Educators should also teach executive functioning language to all classroom learners, not just those who show deficits. When educators assist students with identifying their executive functioning strengths and areas of need, they also teach them how to advocate for their own needs in the classroom and beyond.

Executive functioning comprises both the skills that involve thinking, or cognition, and skills that involve doing, or behavior. Here’s a breakdown of these skills and how some might look in the classroom:

the most common symptom of depression in teens is not sadness but irritability.

Experts urge caregivers to err on the side of caution and to seek professional guidance if they feel any concern about suicidality, or depression in general.

A psychologist, psychiatrist, or pediatrician should be able to differentiate typical teen moodiness from depression.