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Perspective

What Do You Mean by “Cognitive Capacity?”

We’ve been encountering the term “cognitive capacity” more and more often since we started to make the distinction between “cognitive ability” and “cognitive capacity” a few years ago. The reaso...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

Thoughts

Solving the Teacher Shortage Can’t (by Itself) Solve the Learning Shortage

President Biden recently announced plans to fund efforts to address the shortage of teachers, a situation that has been building for many years and accelerated because of the pandemic. There is ...

Betsy Hill & Roger Stark

Research

The New 70/30 Rule: 70% Will Get Us $72 Trillion

In Part One of this series , we envisioned a world where vastly greater numbers of students could improve their cognitive skills so that they score at the 70 th percentile or higher.  Why th...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

Research

Building the 21st Century Worker: Are We Workforce-Ready?

In  part one of this article, we took a look at the cognitive capacity and cognitive skills needed to build a workforce-ready employee. As we approach the mid-21st century, the need for prepari...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

Research

Building the 21st Century Worker: a Blueprint for Success

Editor’s Note: This is part one of a  two-part  article. It is becoming increasingly clear from neuroscience research that intelligence is not fixed and that the ability to learn, ...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

Perspective

3 Keys to Building Individual Learning Capacity

Doesn’t everyone have the ability to learn? Of course. Learning is what our brains do. As we interact with the environment, the neurons in our brains make connections. Those connections are stre...

Betsy Hill and Roger Stark

Perspective

Cognitive Skills and Wellbeing: The Relationship

Editor’s Note: This is part one in a three-part series Wellbeing is the word that is on the tip of everyone’s tongue these days. And for good reason. It is that single, intangible state th...

Betsy Hill & Roger Stark

Thoughts

Cognitive Approach to Addressing the Impact of Covid-19 on Students

Schools are exploring new ways to address the impact that Covid-19 has had and continues to have on students. As leadership teams around the country consider the most effective options to help c...

Betsy Hill & Roger Stark

Featured Papers

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Three Near-Term Innovation Areas for K12
K12 human resources are crucial to utilizing the cloud successfully. Roles and responsibilities have all changed dramatically since the start of the pandemic, and a new trend to move to core co...
An Essential Audio Ingredient in Today’s Accessible Learning Environments
Today’s learning environments have changed markedly from just a couple years ago, prior to the pandemic. Tech devices are comprehensively in both the student and teacher hands, but are they missin...
The Gaps Remaining for District Digital Transition
Most administrators know there are still gaps remaining in their school or district’s digital transition. Recent studies including the 2021 Digital Transition Surveys for Administrators and Teache...
5 Steps to Fixing the Hidden Traffic of Records Management Overwhelming Schools
How come digital processes seem easier but are often harder to manage? A major shift to digital teaching and learning in schools has developed an additional digital traffic load for teachers and f...
From Chaos to Learning Recovery: Going from Manual-Digital All the Way to Efficiency
Seeing the Levels of Chaos Helps Anchor Bringing Order Schools and districts that recently lost 4 percent of students to alternatives continued to lose students in 2021 at an accelerated pace (no...
Hybrid Logistics Security
Your district is a brand, and your network security helps power its reputation. With the accelerated move to hybrid learning environments over the past year, school districts across the nation are...