Kimberly Cox works full time teaching professional development for teachers centered around brain science. Kimberly explains that growth requires students to work beyond comfort, tolerate failure, and engage in trial and error rather than completing tasks with ease. Whoever does the thinking does the learning; excessive teacher cueing can prevent knowledge from transferring to students. Suggested practices include timed quick writes, post-it responses, partner discussion, questioning, analysis, and application.

In this episode, math educator Jen Hawkins shares the 7 student vital actions in the math classroom that are grounded in equity and logical thinking/reasoning. Jen talks about the importance of productive struggle as well as all students regularly using math vocabulary as they share their thinking.