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Less-structured time in children's daily lives predicts self-directed executive functioning

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Study shows how children, when left alone to develop their own structure, are better at self-directed processes in the future.

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Announcing Conference to Restore Humanity! 2025: Quest for Connection (July 21-23, 2025). In 2025, we’re responding to the need for community and solidarity in uncertain times by turning Conference to Restore Humanity into a model for humanizing critical discourse and dialogue: bringing together students and teachers, researchers and doers, thinkers and visionaries to explore complex topics in education and illuminate a path forward together.

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New podcast: Reclaiming Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI w/ Chanea Bond

Our most listened-to episode of 2025 is our awesome conversation with Texas educator, Chanea Bond, about how she is humanizing teaching and learning in her classroom in our so-called "Age of AI"!

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My Learning Journey serves as a structured, modular daily reflection framework designed to deepen student learning throughout projects or units.

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"It's Like a Baby Jail!" Power & Early Childhood Education w/ Dr. Chloë Keegan

Our latest podcast with Dr. Chloë Keegan - Dr. Keegan is an early childhood expert with over a decade of experience as an educator, researcher, and policy advocate. Her work focuses on children's rights and power, play and participation, and influencing practice and policy in early education.

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I was just going to say that that is the ideal place to do it, because I think just biologically and whatever, when you're younger, you are more naturally a change agent, and have a better sense of vision, and have a longer time to be invested in the future, so that's actually the perfect place to be doing what you just said, Falami, is in schools, because that's where you've got this nexus of brilliance, and vision, and investment in 100 years from now or whatever. Not that we all can't be part of it, but you've got a nice concentration of people who are especially suited to creating that vision, and that change, and partnership with us elders.

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