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Research suggests that metacognition is key to higher student achievement, but studies of classroom practice indicate that few students are taught to use metacognition and the supporting cognitive strategies that make learning easier. Educators, you can teach metacognition to your students, so why wouldn't you? Metacognition is a tool that helps students unlock their brain's amazing power

By Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers Note: This blog post originally appeared on the School Leaders Now website. Follow these four guiding questions to improve leadership and student learning   Recent research by London neuroscientist Stephen Fleming indicates that metacognition—‘thinking about thinking’—is the forgotten secret to success across all domains. Educational leaders can use

At the Center for Innovative Education, we are inspired when schools and districts use our ideas to cultivate a more joyful place for thinking and learning to occur. At the beginning of the U.S. school year, I want to applaud the educators at Kossuth High School in Corinth, Mississippi, for supporting positivity! Using one of our articles on the power of positivity in schools, they state, “A

Having presented in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia earlier this year, Marcus and I are pleased to see our work is being used in New South Wales. The most recent example that we have learned about is in a report authored by Nikki Goldspink Chaffey of the Narranga Public School in New South Wales. Ms. Chaffey found particular value in our post, entitled “Metacognition, The Gift That Keeps