Zaretta Hammond

That’s not a lack of ability. It’s biology responding to social pressure 🧠 We may not control the test, but we can shape the mindset students bring into the room. Here are four practical tips to support students:

Standardized #testing season is underway. Let’s be clear: tests don’t just measure content, they measure context. When students fear confirming negative assumptions about their identity, the brain shifts into protection mode. Stress rises. Working memory narrows. #edu

High expectations held with care build learning power in students. In #education, warm demand is love in action. #Teachers, download my Warm Demander Self-Assessment Tool to gauge your warm demand in the classroom: bit.ly/3Om3rTr

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Meta-strategic thinking is not just reflection. It’s awareness in action. When we give students the tools to pause, plan, monitor, and adjust their thinking, not one-off strategies, we prepare them for rigorous learning and life beyond the classroom. #edu

While #metacognition is all the rage, it’s not just enough to build learning power. What’s needed too is meta-strategic thinking, a fancy word for helping students think about & shape their learning moves. Let’s look at 3 ways to build it using the sci of learning. 🧠 #edchat

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In Rebuilding Students' Learning Power, @Ready4rigor goes beyond turnkey strategies to teach you how to coach your students to higher levels of cognition. Get your copy: corwin.com/books/rebuildi…

In a new book, Zaretta Hammond (@Ready4rigor) likens the role of teachers to that of athletic trainers building students' academic muscle. #EWOpinion @LarryFerlazzo edweek.org/teaching-learn…

#HispanicHeritageMonth is a time to honor the threads of culture that shape community. Chávez’s words calls us to justice in #edu: Culture is not extra credit, it’s entry to deeper learning and respecting identity sets students up for the productive struggle that fuels it. 🧠.

And that’s what my new book Rebuilding Students’ Learning Power is all about. It gives #teachers a road map for coaching students to grow their own learning power & reclaim the cognitive capital too often left underdeveloped. You can get it here! bit.ly/4fCvyY4 #edu

Here, I sit down w/ @LarryFerlazzo in an @EducationWeek Classroom Q&A to talk about what it will take to change that. We dug into the sci of learning, how to disrupt “cognitive redlining,” and why helping students move from compliance to curiosity is key: edweek.org/teaching-learn…

When schools closed in 2020, it exposed what was already true: too many students hadn’t learned how to without excessive scaffolding. Without skills to be cognitively independent, unfinished learning became what the World Bank calls learning poverty, and inequities only deepened.

Grateful to talk with @Larryferlazzo in this new EdWeek column about the big idea behind my new book with @CorwinPress, Rebuilding Students’ Learning Power. Check out the link below. 👇🏾

These are the kinds of practical moves I break down every month in the Ready4Rigor 🧠 newsletter. If you want resources that make coaching for #edu equity doable, come join the community: bit.ly/4oXWhmv

💡Tip 3: Practice noticing and naming. Be specific. Point out where a student took a risk or pushed through. The brain is wired to remember mistakes. We have to help it linger on wins long enough to change the narrative.

The start of school isn’t just about routines. It’s when students are shaping their learner identity. That’s the story they tell themselves about what kind of learner they are. Coaches & teachers have real influence on that story. Here’s my advice: