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At EA gratitude isn't just a November thing. It's a June thing too and this week's WDYN makes the case, with research, book recs, and a David Foster Wallace detour.

Last one of the 2025-2026 school year (but lots more writing to come in the summer months). 🔗 in 🧵

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What makes experiential learning stick isn't the experience. It's the design around it.

This week's WDYN: PBL's contested research, the far transfer problem, and why we might choose to think of novelty as infrastructure and not an extra (occasionally).

https://t.co/SbriYXQx11

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Pizza Hut brought back Book It. We built a reading list. Felt right.

Six books for summer from the CTL.

https://t.co/DHiSjAlajw

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The end of the year doesn't have to just happen to you.
This week's WDYN offers a series of tools and inspiration for a better ending.

The final pages are still being written. Make them count.

https://t.co/UN5sWiXop7

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Students aren't confused about the AI/honesty line. They're deciding every day whether crossing it costs them anything. This week's WDYN: what the research says, what's shifted, and why honesty might be the most underrated thing we could actually teach.

https://t.co/oMS3HxAHlr

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The best interventions for student learning aren't add-ons. They're just good teaching, done deliberately.

This week's WDYN looks at the "craft" of teaching.

https://t.co/BlRbDm3S08

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A celebration is also an argument. This week's WDYN makes the case for the arts: with research, a field guide, and a clock made of people.

https://t.co/GPZQVvoD2B

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

Thanks Justin. Glad it's still proving useful!

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STEM is having a moment: in theaters, in orbit, and this week in the hallways of The Episcopal Academy. This week's WDYN rides that energy: what does it look like to teach the way the best researchers think?

https://t.co/EM9HHortNK

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What if student motivation isn't a personality trait, but instead a design problem?

New WDYN has three resources worth your time this week — especially in April.

https://t.co/bHrQRgRXv8

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The love for @New_Old_Paul, @C_Hendrick, and @DrJimHeal's 'Instructional Illusions' continued this AM with 11 teachers from MS and US engaged in a lively discussion—1st period, after a long weekend. The book does things for teachers!
https://t.co/h5bYEZcOG6

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Courtesy is April's Stripe at EA. This week's WDYN: the research (or lack thereof), a 60-second clip worth stealing, and lesson design as an act of respect.

https://t.co/OowbbO0ZU5

[Justin Cerenzia @Cerenz]

Good to see @DTWillingham getting lots of shares on here currently. To that end, I really liked his new Education Next piece with ED Hirsch today, on knowledge and reading.

https://t.co/coqxBi82Ns

[Justin Cerenzia @Cerenz]

Me, when Carl links to a paper reviewing SoTL research in his Monthly Dispatch (top 3 resource for me).

*Note: The paper is critical of SoTL methodologies as they relate to teacher "charisma" which is something we constantly grapple with in @ea_ctl (while doing SoTL research).

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With spring break at EA just around the corner, this week's WDYN is built around one idea: the conditions that make learning stick are often the same ones that make rest restorative.

New research, a good book rec, and a case for doing nothing.
https://t.co/7DzGSyndbW

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Change in classrooms happens at every level — mid-lesson, across a unit, across a career. This week's WDYN looks at all three, plus a bird migration visualization that reframes the whole thing.
What are you adapting right now?

https://t.co/dR29vDKtKa

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The Marshmallow Test is more myth than method. Willpower is less useful than a good workaround. And what might drama and improv teach us about self-regulation? Plus: Parkinson's Law applies to your grading pile too.

This week's WDYN: https://t.co/0O4tE6PqnH

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The research was already in the classroom. Andrew just started counting. A simple ritual, a tally counter, and a question worth asking.

Here, @SrShimrock turned a frustrating class into a fascinating study. 🛫

https://t.co/mNXMEY2GAV

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We haven't done a dedicated AI edition in a while. A lot has changed—and some things haven't. Get the judgment right. The rest is just tools.

This week's WDYN: https://t.co/1My8OB3jno