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| Email: |
info@jensenlearning.com |
| Mail: |
Jensen Learning PO Box 349 Maunaloa, HI 96770 |
| Phone: |
808-552-0110 (9am-5pm PST) |
| Fax: |
808-552-0220 (9-5 pm PST) |
Time for Your Mental Autopsy
If you’re like me, you’re so busy, and the idea of stopping for reflection is a tough one. It is especially hard when the topic is on work habits, mindsets and strategies. Plus, the word “autopsy” triggers thoughts of something that died. Actually, you should be “killing” off weak or wrong ideas. But, why do […]
Can You Raise Test Scores in 12 Minutes?
(Yes, if you know how) In a recent study, the mean reading comprehension score of low-income adolescents who engaged in 12 minutes of (doing what?) was higher than the mean reading comprehension score of low-income adolescents in the control group. Not a little bit higher, but MUCH higher! The most amazing part of this intervention […]
Recovery of the Lost Learning Manuscript
I try to provide what you want…. the newest, latest and greatest in brain research. Of course, I do read the journals and subscribe to many, like the Journal of Neuroscience. But, I am also a student of the history of learning. I often reread classic textbooks from my bookshelves to reactivate the solid research […]
How to Hook in Little Kids and Adolescents with a Centuries-Old Strategy
If you’re like me, you have memories of sharing content with your class of students, and many of them just looking at you and staring. Nothing’s happening. You’re not sure if they even care what you are saying. OK, let’s say you did use “buy-in” strategies, so that area was addressed. Maybe you see that […]
How is a Student’s Memory at Test Time?
You’re about to find out that your students’ memories are FAR worse than you thought, and yet can be FAR better than you thought in another way. Let’s find out how to fix it with four quality solutions.
How to Get Students to Buy-Into Your Content…
I’d like to introduce a critical topic: how to get students to care about the content you have to offer. Why should YOU care about this? I think I can save you a TON of time this year. Here’s how:
The newest underperformers at school are…
This post is about something quite controversial. In fact, it’s so controversial that many of you will be upset and send me emails, telling me I am wrong. But, the way I see it, I am the messenger of the truth. I don’t make up the facts.
6 Quick Brain-Based Teaching Strategies
So many teachers want the quick strategies they can use the very next day. Unfortunately, many of those are just more of the same. Sometimes what makes a strategy work (or not work) is HOW the teacher “sets up” the activity. Other times it works because of the timing or the environmental factors. In short, […]
Seven Changes You Can Make to Save Your Life and Possibly Beat Cancer
Below you’ll find seven changes you can make to save your life or extend it! You may be concerned about the “big two” killers of cancer and Alzheimer’s. We’ll focus on cancer and the our next post will be (again) on Alzheimer’s.
Eric Jensen’s Extreme Schools: How Miracles Happen
Not long ago, this high K-5 poverty school had neighborhood drug dealers coming ON CAMPUS. The outside aesthetics of the school were deplorable, with deteriorating buildings. The district rates schools (academically) on a scale from 1-10 (with 10 as highest). This school was a “1” out of ten (the lowest possible ranking.
Your Students’ Number One Life Skill
There’s one skill that’s absolutely critical for both students and, yes, staff, too. This research may surprise you because it deals with one of your brain’s “automated” systems. The number one school success survival skill is…
Rule of the Thirds – Professional Development Secrets
You might be like many who organize professional development. You are experienced, thoughtful and very, very busy. So what is the “Rule of Thirds?”It’s the biggest little secret in education. There are three BIG thirds in professional development (PD). The first third of the three comes from the circumstances of the actual professional development day. […]
Secrets to Ramping up Student Effort:
Over the years, student effort has been called many things. Some call it “motivation” and others call it “work ethic.” But no matter what you call it, students will never rise to their full potential without a strong effort. Here is what research tells us and how you can get the most out of your students. First…
From Lowest Performing to “Extreme School” Success
There are 1,862 elementary schools in the state of Florida. This month, we are featuring an “Extreme School” and its name is Blackburn Elementary. Last year, it was one the lowest performing (5%) elementary schools in the state (one of the VERY, VERY lowest).
Now, when we see schools struggle like this, there are many possibilities. First, we can debunk the most commonly mentioned myths about low-performing schools….
How To Live While You’re Alive
One cannot always choose every aspect of their circumstances, job, relationships or family. What we can choose, every single waking moment of our lives, is our RESPONSE to those things. And it is our response that determines the quality of life, not our circumstances.
Make the choices that will bring you joy. Life is short; rock on!