Why Good Lessons Still Fail to Stick And what cognitive science tells us to do instead There’s a moment every teacher knows painfully well. The lesson went as planned.Students were engaged.The room felt productive. And yet, a week later, it’s gone. Not misunderstood.Not half-remembered.Gone. As in: “Wait… we did this already?” This is usually the…

Teaching has never been more demanding.Every teacher I know is moving at a pace that feels almost impossible. The expectations rise. The pressure to “cover content” grows. The paperwork multiplies. And somewhere in that whirlwind the deeper work of helping children think and question and truly understand gets pushed further and further to the margins.…