The Hook, Curiosity, and the Brain is the title of a post over at Eide Neurolearning Blog. It describes the results of a study on what curiosity and questioning does to the brain. Here’s an excerpt: When study subjects were interested in a question, their caudates (reward) and prefrontal cortices became activated as the [...]

As regular readers know, our school works closely with Kelly Young from Pebble Creek Labs on our curriculum and instructional strategies. One of the  Pebble Creek-designed assessments we use in our English classes is having students complete the same two clozes three times each year — September, January, and June — to assess reading [...]