Education Week

With Peter DeWitt & Michael Nelson

Imagine walking into a 3 rd grade classroom and watching students completing a worksheet where they had to use scissors to cut out coins from a paper and then paste the right coins to equal the ...
University of Wyoming

SEP-Driven Learning Intentions: Writing Learning Intentions That Promote Student Sensemaking and Three-Dimensional Learning

Allen, M., Mattson, S., Arnold, E., Carroll, R., Freze, M., Inouye, M. C., … Houseal, A. (2025). SEP-Driven Learning Intentions: Writing Learning Intentions That ...
Education Week

Finding Common Ground

When I first read the Davinci Code by Dan Brown, I had to take breaks where I walked away for twenty minutes, an hour, sometimes a day. The book was so cerebral to me that I needed to take breaks ...
University of Wyoming

Balancing Clarity and Inquiry: Developing SEP-Driven Learning Intentions to Support Student Sensemaking in Science Education

This case study investigates the disconnect between administrative directives for clear, explicit learning intentions (LIs) and the Next Generation Science Standards' (NGSS) vision for inquiry-based, ...
Psychology Today

Readers Drive Learning: Important Thoughts About Intentions and Choice

Readers' replies to "Zen, choice and procrastination" were insightful and stimulated further writing and learning on my part. Here are some important distinctions about changing our intentions or ...