Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.
Students don't come to us as blank slates. Our job as teachers is to anticipate when faulty mental models are likely to be in play when a student is having trouble and to help them correct the misconceptions they have built in their minds around academic concepts.