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She realized the need to balance times of intense concentration (focused mode) with those of mental relaxation (diffuse mode) to solve problems efficiently. Those metacognitive strategies were crucial for Oakley’s learning journey. She is now a professor of engineering, and the techniques she developed led her to co-create the wildly popular online

Well before the gift to Newark, Priscilla Chan had made a personal cause of working with children like those who struggled the most in Newark. As a pediatrician caring for underserved children, she became convinced that schools, on their own, were unlikely to meet the needs of students raised amid extreme poverty and violence. Working with educator

then you’re open to accurate information about your current abilities, even if it’s unflattering.

His goal was to turn the ratio of time he spent talking to time the students spent talking on its head.

He was a wonderful educator, and he always told us to question assumptions. “There’s an assumption,” he said, “that schools are for students’ learning. Well, why aren’t they just as much for teachers’ learning?”

Just as Michelangelo thought there was an angel locked inside every piece of marble, I think there is a brilliant child locked inside every student. —Marva Collins