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#Better Adults Series

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The five capacities that underpin productive work — sustained attention, designed environments, genuine engagement, deliberate practice and lasting motivation — and where young people are supposed to learn them

Teaching Strategies

The Productivity Skills Your Students Will Need (And Where They'll Learn Them)

Alex Gray9 min · 18 Jun

Why teachers stay tired despite sleeping eight hours: a diagnostic guide to the seven types of rest from Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith, applied to the classroom

Teaching Strategies

Seven Types of Rest, and Why Sleep Only Fixes One

Alex Gray8 min · 22 May

Why every educator needs a rest ethic, not just a work ethic, and how the kind of human you are is part of what you teach

Teaching Strategies

Better Humans: Why Every Educator Needs a Rest Ethic

Alex Gray10 min · 15 May

Why schools teach maths, science and English but never how to think, work or focus, and what the productivity gap costs adults later in life

Teaching Strategies

Maths, Science, English. But Not How to Think, Work or Focus.

Alex Gray9 min · 3 May

Why teachers and students struggle to focus: what Gloria Mark, Kahneman, Johann Hari and William James reveal about attention as a learnable skill

Teaching Strategies

Your Students Can't Focus. Neither Can You. Here's What the Science Says.

Alex Gray5 min · 23 Apr