My mid-year “Best” list posts continue…

I’m adding this post to All 2020 Mid-Year “Best” Lists In One Place!

I publish a regular series called SEL Weekly Update, and I thought it would useful to readers and to me to review them and highlight the ones I think are the best of the year.

You might also be interested in “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources. All my “Best” lists related to SEL, including previous editions of this Best list, can be found there.

Here are my choices from the past six months:

RIP ANDERS ERICSSON – RESEARCHER OF “DELIBERATE PRACTICE” & “10,000 HOUR RULE”

THE NEXT TIME YOU GET FRUSTRATED BY STUDENT BEHAVIOR, THINK OF THIS….

YOU WON’T FIND A BETTER GROWTH MINDSET QUOTE THAN THIS ONE FROM A RUGBY STAR

NEW STUDY FINDS LONG-TERM EFFECTIVENESS OF SIMPLE INTERVENTION SUPPORTING FIRST GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS – HERE’S HOW I ADAPTED IT FOR HIGH SCHOOL

HIGHLIGHTING SCIENTISTS WHO SUCCEEDED MORE THROUGH EFFORT THAN BRILLIANCE ENHANCES STUDENT MOTIVATION IN SCIENCE

NOT ONLY CAN IT BE MOTIVATING TO HAVE A GROWTH MINDSET, BUT NEW STUDIES FIND LEARNING ABOUT OTHERS WHO HAVE IT CAN BE MOTIVATING, TOO

THE BEST SPANISH-LANGUAGE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS – HELP ME FIND MORE

Reframing Achievement Setbacks: A Motivation Intervention to Improve 8-Year Graduation Rates for Students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Fields is a new study.  I’m adding it to Best Posts On “Motivating” Students.

I’m Sick of Asking Children to Be Resilient is from The NY Times. I’m adding it to The Best Resources Showing Social Emotional Learning Isn’t Enough.

Using self-nudging to make better choices is from Science Daily. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About “Nudges” In Schools.

Metacognition and Self-regulated Learning is from The Education Endowment Foundation. I’m adding it to Best Posts On Metacognition.

 

I’m adding this great new video to The Best Resources For Learning About “Grit”:

6 ways to build motivation to do your schoolwork now that you’re forced to learn online at home is from The Conversation. I’m adding it to Best Posts On “Motivating” Students.

I’m adding this tweet to The Best Posts, Articles & Videos About Learning From Mistakes & Failures:

People Don’t Share Their Failures Often Enough is from Psychology Today. I’m adding it to The Best Posts, Articles & Videos About Learning From Mistakes & Failures.

DELIBERATE PRACTICE IN THE CLASSROOM is from The Learning Curve.  I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About The 10,000 Hour Rule & Deliberate Practice.

The Starts and Stumbles of Restorative Justice in Education: Where Do We Go from Here? is from the National Education Policy Center. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Restorative Practices – Help Me Find More.

Though I think you might want to read a little more about Community Circles before doing one in your classroom, this new Edutopia video does a good job explaining its basics.

I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Restorative Practices – Help Me Find More.

3 Reasons Students Procrastinate—and How to Help Them Stop is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Teaching Students About The Dangers Of Procrastination.

The Greater Good Science Center is based at the University of California at Berkeley, and produces some decent resources related to Social Emotional Learning (one of their articles, How to Motivate Kids to Practice Hard Things, made it on The Best Social Emotional Learning Resources Of 2019 – Part One list).They unveiled a new site specifically for educators. Here’s what they say about it:

The GGSC Education Team is thrilled to announce the launch of Greater Good in Education, a free new online resource that provides educators, school leaders, school mental health providers, and other education professionals with strategies and practices for the social, emotional, and ethical development of students and the adults who work with them.

5 ways to deal with that pesky lack of motivation is from Fast Company. I’m adding it to Best Posts On “Motivating” Students.

9 Strategies for Motivating Students in Mathematics is from Edutopia.

Study: Boosting soft skills is better than raising test scores is from The Hechinger Report. I’m adding it to The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources.

If You Learn A, Will You Be Better Able to Learn B? is a very good piece on learning transfer that appeared in The American Educator.  I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About The Concept Of “Transfer” — Help Me Find More.

Is innate talent a myth? is a new video from The BBC. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About The 10,000 Hour Rule & Deliberate Practice.

The Restorative Power of Ritual is from The Harvard Business Review.

How to Turn on the Part of Your Brain That Controls Motivation is from MindShift. I’m adding it to Best Posts On “Motivating” Students.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHY “IMPACT” IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN “INTENT”

I’m adding this tweet to The Best Posts, Articles & Videos About Learning From Mistakes & Failures:

Lighting the wick in the candle of learning: generating a prediction stimulates curiosity is a new study. I’m adding it to Best Posts On Curiosity.

How Early-Career Setbacks Can Set You Up for Success is from The NY Times. I’m adding it to The Best Posts, Articles & Videos About Learning From Mistakes & Failures.

Rethinking ‘resilience’ and ‘grit’ is from The Boston Globe. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About “Grit”

I’m adding this tweet to The Best Videos Showing “Thinking Outside The Box” — Help Me Find More:

I’m adding this tweet to THE BEST WAYS TO SUPPORT LGBTQ STUDENTS:

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait: Delaying Gratification Likely Does Matter for Later Achievement is a new study that responds to recent criticisms of The Marshmallow Test. I’m adding it to  Best Posts About Helping Students Develop Their Capacity For Self-Control.

ASCD Express has an entire issue on metacognition.  I’m adding it to The Best Posts On Metacognition.

Metacognition and self‑regulated learning is from Evidence For Learning. I’m adding it to Best Posts On Metacognition.

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING & EQUITY is from The National Equity Project.

I’m adding the first video to The Best TV/Movie Scenes Demonstrating A “Growth Mindset” – Help Me Find More and the other two to The Best Resources On Helping Our Students Develop A “Growth Mindset”:

 

I’ve certainly taught my share of lessons on “grit” over the years (see The Best Resources For Learning About “Grit”). In them, I’ve generally included a very short piece on how grit isn’t everything and that sometimes it’s good to quit. However, that’s never been an important part of the lesson. That’s going to change now that I’ve seen this Have You Ever Quit Something? lesson from The New York Times Learning Network AND the 130 student comments it received. It will be easy to incorporate some of the lesson text, not to mention some of the comments from students, into my lesson, and it will make it soooooooooooooo much better!