EA Center for Teaching & Learning
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The Episcopal Academy Center for Teaching & Learning provides teachers with the foundation and inspiration to maximize every opportunity for students to learn.
Check out our Substack 'The Beacon' here: https://episcopalacademyctl.substack.com/
Check out our Substack 'The Beacon' here: https://episcopalacademyctl.substack.com/
Reposted by EA Center for Teaching & Learning
We Need a Revolution in Professional Learning.
In this short preview, @profcoe.bsky.social and @profkime.bsky.social explore why that matters, what the revolution could look like, and how schools, colleges and educators can get involved.
The paper will be published on 5 September 2026. Stay tuned
In this short preview, @profcoe.bsky.social and @profkime.bsky.social explore why that matters, what the revolution could look like, and how schools, colleges and educators can get involved.
The paper will be published on 5 September 2026. Stay tuned
August 24, 2026 at 9:23 AM
We Need a Revolution in Professional Learning.
In this short preview, @profcoe.bsky.social and @profkime.bsky.social explore why that matters, what the revolution could look like, and how schools, colleges and educators can get involved.
The paper will be published on 5 September 2026. Stay tuned
In this short preview, @profcoe.bsky.social and @profkime.bsky.social explore why that matters, what the revolution could look like, and how schools, colleges and educators can get involved.
The paper will be published on 5 September 2026. Stay tuned
WDYN is back with a Week Zero post. Three recent pieces that caught our attention, made us think, and made us ask even more questions than we usually do. We're not all of the way back yet...but we're close! #LEGGO
'What Do You Need?’ Wednesday—The Week Zero Edition
(As always) "...every tiny thing by one percent..."
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
August 19, 2026 at 3:31 PM
WDYN is back with a Week Zero post. Three recent pieces that caught our attention, made us think, and made us ask even more questions than we usually do. We're not all of the way back yet...but we're close! #LEGGO
A YouTube pivot, an AI-built discussion tool that's mostly sound and silence, and an old essay on why understanding takes sweat equity.
This week's Thursday's Three Things 📺 🎣 🧠
This week's Thursday's Three Things 📺 🎣 🧠
Thursday's Three Things—Watching, Wondering, Working
Three Things. On a Thursday.
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
July 16, 2026 at 1:53 PM
A YouTube pivot, an AI-built discussion tool that's mostly sound and silence, and an old essay on why understanding takes sweat equity.
This week's Thursday's Three Things 📺 🎣 🧠
This week's Thursday's Three Things 📺 🎣 🧠
In a world where anyone can build anything, we've been wondering if it's even worth it. This week we consider the bias that makes us overvalue our own builds, what building with AI actually asks, & why playing with 100 imperfect pots beats polishing 1.
Thursday's Three Things—Building, Discerning, Playing
Three Things. On a Thursday.
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
July 2, 2026 at 2:12 PM
In a world where anyone can build anything, we've been wondering if it's even worth it. This week we consider the bias that makes us overvalue our own builds, what building with AI actually asks, & why playing with 100 imperfect pots beats polishing 1.
Thursday's Three Things is live on measuring, asking, and inviting.
Why testing measures action, not knowledge. How to teach questions that compound. And why one professor is opening fall with a letter, not a policy.
Why testing measures action, not knowledge. How to teach questions that compound. And why one professor is opening fall with a letter, not a policy.
Thursday's Three Things—Measuring, Asking, Inviting
Three Things. On a Thursday.
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
June 25, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Thursday's Three Things is live on measuring, asking, and inviting.
Why testing measures action, not knowledge. How to teach questions that compound. And why one professor is opening fall with a letter, not a policy.
Why testing measures action, not knowledge. How to teach questions that compound. And why one professor is opening fall with a letter, not a policy.
First summer edition of Thursday's Three Things is live: an AI ethics toolkit built for remixing, a 2009 paper on why soccer matches are badly designed experiments (and what that might mean for a classroom), and a CEO's 75/25 rule for AI in the classroom.
Thursday's Three Things—Open Tools, Bad Experiments, Right Doses
Three Things. On a Thursday.
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
June 18, 2026 at 2:17 PM
First summer edition of Thursday's Three Things is live: an AI ethics toolkit built for remixing, a 2009 paper on why soccer matches are badly designed experiments (and what that might mean for a classroom), and a CEO's 75/25 rule for AI in the classroom.
School's out. The CTL is not. Here's what we're building this summer: teacher research, AI-infused courses and collaborations, portrait of a graduate PD, and a few plane tickets.
Before the Bell Rings
Inside the CTL's Summer Agenda
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
June 15, 2026 at 4:55 PM
School's out. The CTL is not. Here's what we're building this summer: teacher research, AI-infused courses and collaborations, portrait of a graduate PD, and a few plane tickets.
At EA gratitude isn't just a November thing. It's a June thing too and this week's WDYN makes the case, with research, book recs, and a David Foster Wallace detour.
Last one of the 2025-2026 school year (but lots more writing to come in the summer months).
Last one of the 2025-2026 school year (but lots more writing to come in the summer months).
'What Do You Need Wednesday?'—The Gratitude Edition
(Still) "...every tiny thing by one percent..."
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
June 3, 2026 at 1:02 PM
At EA gratitude isn't just a November thing. It's a June thing too and this week's WDYN makes the case, with research, book recs, and a David Foster Wallace detour.
Last one of the 2025-2026 school year (but lots more writing to come in the summer months).
Last one of the 2025-2026 school year (but lots more writing to come in the summer months).
What makes experiential learning stick isn't the experience. It's the design around it.
This week's WDYN: PBL's contested research, the far transfer problem, and why we might choose to think of novelty as infrastructure and not an extra (occasionally).
This week's WDYN: PBL's contested research, the far transfer problem, and why we might choose to think of novelty as infrastructure and not an extra (occasionally).
'What Do You Need Wednesday?'—The May Term+ Edition
(Still) "...every tiny thing by one percent..."
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
May 27, 2026 at 12:32 PM
What makes experiential learning stick isn't the experience. It's the design around it.
This week's WDYN: PBL's contested research, the far transfer problem, and why we might choose to think of novelty as infrastructure and not an extra (occasionally).
This week's WDYN: PBL's contested research, the far transfer problem, and why we might choose to think of novelty as infrastructure and not an extra (occasionally).
Pizza Hut brought back Book It. We built a reading list. Felt right.
Six books for summer from the CTL.
Six books for summer from the CTL.
What We're Reading (and Why You Should Be Too)
The Beacon's summer reading list for 2026.
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
May 22, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Pizza Hut brought back Book It. We built a reading list. Felt right.
Six books for summer from the CTL.
Six books for summer from the CTL.
The end of the year doesn't have to just happen to you. This week's WDYN offers a series of tools and inspiration for a better ending.
The final pages are still being written. Make them count.
The final pages are still being written. Make them count.
'What Do You Need Wednesday?'—The Better Ending Edition
(Still)
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
May 20, 2026 at 1:25 PM
The end of the year doesn't have to just happen to you. This week's WDYN offers a series of tools and inspiration for a better ending.
The final pages are still being written. Make them count.
The final pages are still being written. Make them count.
Students aren't confused about the AI/honesty line. They're deciding every day whether crossing it costs them anything. This week's WDYN: what the research says, what's shifted, and why honesty might be the most underrated thing we could actually teach.
'What Do You Need Wednesday?'—The Honesty Edition
(Still) "...every tiny thing by one percent..."
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
May 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Students aren't confused about the AI/honesty line. They're deciding every day whether crossing it costs them anything. This week's WDYN: what the research says, what's shifted, and why honesty might be the most underrated thing we could actually teach.
The best interventions for student learning aren't add-ons. They're just good teaching, done deliberately.
This week's WDYN looks at the "craft" of teaching.
This week's WDYN looks at the "craft" of teaching.
'What Do You Need Wednesday?'—The Teaching as Craft Edition
(Still) "...every tiny thing by one percent..."
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
April 29, 2026 at 12:57 PM
The best interventions for student learning aren't add-ons. They're just good teaching, done deliberately.
This week's WDYN looks at the "craft" of teaching.
This week's WDYN looks at the "craft" of teaching.
A celebration is also an argument. This week's WDYN makes the case for the arts: with research, a field guide, and a clock made of people.
'What Do You Need Wednesday?'—The ArtsFest Edition
(Still) "...every tiny thing by one percent..."
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
April 22, 2026 at 1:08 PM
A celebration is also an argument. This week's WDYN makes the case for the arts: with research, a field guide, and a clock made of people.
STEM is having a moment: in theaters, in orbit, and this week in the hallways of The Episcopal Academy. This week's WDYN rides that energy: what does it look like to teach the way the best researchers think?
'What Do You Need Wednesday?'—The STEMposium Edition
(Still) "...every tiny thing by one percent..."
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
April 15, 2026 at 12:19 PM
STEM is having a moment: in theaters, in orbit, and this week in the hallways of The Episcopal Academy. This week's WDYN rides that energy: what does it look like to teach the way the best researchers think?
What if student motivation isn't a personality trait, but instead a design problem?
New WDYN has three resources worth your time this week—especially in April.
New WDYN has three resources worth your time this week—especially in April.
'What Do You Need Wednesday?'—A Motivation Edition
(Still) "...every tiny thing by one percent..."
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
April 8, 2026 at 3:16 PM
What if student motivation isn't a personality trait, but instead a design problem?
New WDYN has three resources worth your time this week—especially in April.
New WDYN has three resources worth your time this week—especially in April.
Reposted by EA Center for Teaching & Learning
Very cool finding: even young children (6-10 yr old) can prioritize more "important" material for restudy, although the ability to make good choices about what to study & what was learned seemed stronger among the older (9-10yr old) students. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1111/cdev...
Earning More Points!: The Impact of Value on Children's Memory and Self-Regulated Learning Strategies
Abstract. Prioritizing what information to learn based on value is a critical developmental skill. Across two studies, value-based memory was assessed pred
doi.org
April 1, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Very cool finding: even young children (6-10 yr old) can prioritize more "important" material for restudy, although the ability to make good choices about what to study & what was learned seemed stronger among the older (9-10yr old) students. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1111/cdev...
Courtesy is April's Stripe at EA. This week's WDYN: the research (or lack thereof), a 60-second clip worth stealing, and lesson design as an act of respect.
'What Do You Need Wednesday?'—The Courtesy Edition
(Still) "...every tiny thing by one percent..."
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
April 1, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Courtesy is April's Stripe at EA. This week's WDYN: the research (or lack thereof), a 60-second clip worth stealing, and lesson design as an act of respect.
With spring break at EA just around the corner, this week's WDYN is built around one idea: the conditions that make learning stick are often the same ones that make rest restorative.
New research, a good book rec, and a case for doing nothing.
New research, a good book rec, and a case for doing nothing.
'What Do You Need Wednesday?'—The Minds on Task Edition
(Still) "...every tiny thing by one percent..."
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
March 18, 2026 at 1:56 PM
With spring break at EA just around the corner, this week's WDYN is built around one idea: the conditions that make learning stick are often the same ones that make rest restorative.
New research, a good book rec, and a case for doing nothing.
New research, a good book rec, and a case for doing nothing.
Change in classrooms happens at every level — mid-lesson, across a unit, across a career. This week's WDYN looks at all three, plus a bird migration visualization that reframes the whole thing.
What are you adapting right now?
What are you adapting right now?
'What Do You Need Wednesday?'—The Adaptation Edition
(Still) "...every tiny thing by one percent..."
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
March 11, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Change in classrooms happens at every level — mid-lesson, across a unit, across a career. This week's WDYN looks at all three, plus a bird migration visualization that reframes the whole thing.
What are you adapting right now?
What are you adapting right now?
The Marshmallow Test is more myth than method. Willpower is less useful than a good workaround. And what might drama and improv teach us about self-regulation? Plus: Parkinson's Law applies to your grading pile too.
This week's WDYN:
This week's WDYN:
'What Do You Need Wednesday?'—The Self-Control Edition
(Still) "...every tiny thing by one percent..."
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
March 4, 2026 at 2:03 PM
The Marshmallow Test is more myth than method. Willpower is less useful than a good workaround. And what might drama and improv teach us about self-regulation? Plus: Parkinson's Law applies to your grading pile too.
This week's WDYN:
This week's WDYN:
The research was already in the classroom. Andrew just started counting. A simple ritual, a tally counter, and a question worth asking.
Read how CTL Research Coordinator an upper school Spanish teacher Andrew Shimrock turned a frustrating class into a fascinating study. 🛫
Read how CTL Research Coordinator an upper school Spanish teacher Andrew Shimrock turned a frustrating class into a fascinating study. 🛫
Wait…We Haven’t Taken Off Yet
The power of ritual in the classroom.
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
February 26, 2026 at 6:03 PM
The research was already in the classroom. Andrew just started counting. A simple ritual, a tally counter, and a question worth asking.
Read how CTL Research Coordinator an upper school Spanish teacher Andrew Shimrock turned a frustrating class into a fascinating study. 🛫
Read how CTL Research Coordinator an upper school Spanish teacher Andrew Shimrock turned a frustrating class into a fascinating study. 🛫
We haven't done a dedicated AI edition in a while. A lot has changed—and some things haven't. Get the judgment right. The rest is just tools.
This week's WDYN:
This week's WDYN:
'What Do You Need Wednesday?'—The Updated (for now) AI Edition
(Still) "...every tiny thing by one percent..."
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
February 25, 2026 at 7:20 PM
We haven't done a dedicated AI edition in a while. A lot has changed—and some things haven't. Get the judgment right. The rest is just tools.
This week's WDYN:
This week's WDYN:
Reposted by EA Center for Teaching & Learning
It’s not good enough to say “it works for me”. How do you know? What are the criteria by which you’d change your mind? If there are none, you have insulated yourself from reality.
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
Opening the closed circle: why being wrong helps us find out what's right
Falsifiability, pseudoscience and why "it works for me" is a pedagogical dead end
open.substack.com
February 19, 2026 at 7:21 AM
It’s not good enough to say “it works for me”. How do you know? What are the criteria by which you’d change your mind? If there are none, you have insulated yourself from reality.
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
New WDYN: The Unlearning Edition.
Not what to learn next. What to examine first.
Three pieces on feedback, emotional expression, and what evaluation pressure does to teachers — not just students.
Not what to learn next. What to examine first.
Three pieces on feedback, emotional expression, and what evaluation pressure does to teachers — not just students.
'What Do You Need Wednesday?'—The Unlearning Edition
(Still) "...every tiny thing by one percent..."
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:09 PM
New WDYN: The Unlearning Edition.
Not what to learn next. What to examine first.
Three pieces on feedback, emotional expression, and what evaluation pressure does to teachers — not just students.
Not what to learn next. What to examine first.
Three pieces on feedback, emotional expression, and what evaluation pressure does to teachers — not just students.