I’m a big fan of goal setting. It can provide a road map for the short or long-term and can be an effective motivational strategy. I have set a few professional development goals for this summer and have challenged a few of my friends/colleagues to do the same thing. Yesterday I realized that I could [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ...

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Students may learn better if they connect the learning to hand gestures according to a study involving math and 84 third and fourth graders.  Children taught to gesture with their hands as they learn new concepts perform far better at solving similar problems weeks later than children who don't gesture, a new study finds. Previous studies ...