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Does Forest-Bathing Benefit Your Anxious Amygdala?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Living near forests might promote healthy brain development, especially as...

Improving the Syllabus: Surprising Benefits of Jumbling
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Jumbling practice problem topics together helps students learn more than...

When Homework Is (and Isn’t) Genuinely Helpful
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

The question "does homework help students learn" is too big...

Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Tom Brady's new "Brain Training" Website looks a lot like...

Focus on the Speaker: Charles Fadel Champions Curriculum Redesign
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Most educational reform focuses on the way the teaching happens:...

Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

The remarkable work of a transgender neuroscientist, who inspired colleagues...

Benefiting from Retrieval Practice: Get the Timing Just Right
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Retrieval practice is an excellent study strategy for students more...

An Extra Half-Hour of Sleep? An Extra Hour?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Students whose first class started later than 8:30 got between...

Enhance Memory by Saying Important Words Aloud
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

You'd like to remember a list of words better? Here's...

Frequency and Memory: Essential Brain Wave Boost
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Earlier this month, I linked to a study showing that declarative and...

Mindset, Gender, and Intelligence: Confusing Myth or Painful Truth
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

In this research, there was no consistent gender split on...

The Neuroscience of Morality
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

How do brains encode moral impulses? As you can imagine,...

Intentional Innovation: How to Guide Risk-Taking, Build Creative Capacity, and Lead Change by A.J. Juliani
Rebecca Gotlieb
Rebecca Gotlieb

How can educators prepare students for an uncertain future? A.J....

Diagnosing ADHD with MRI
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

How do we know if a student has ADHD? Typically,...

Highlighting Retrieval Practice
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

The Effortful Educator describes his fun system for using highlighters...

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