By Rob Cooney (@EMEducation) Charles Duhigg’s first bestseller, The Power of Habit, opened my eyes to the influence of habits and rituals on daily living and the potential uses for the habit loop in teaching.  As soon […]

By Rob Cooney (@EMEducation) What we’re reading this month… Cal Newport is an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. His first book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You explored the idea that […]

By Rob Cooney (@EMEducation) What we’re reading this month… Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World  It’s been a while since I read this month’s book, but since I often recommend it to other educators venturing into […]

By Rob Cooney (@EMEducation) HT: Jason Wagner (@TheTechDoc) for nominating the book. There are a multitude of books that propose “rules” for living and leading.  There are also several that explain the behind the scenes machinations of […]

By Rob Cooney (@EMEducation) In 1993, K. Anders Ericsson published his initial work on the concept of “deliberate practice” (Ericsson, Krampe, & Tesch-Römer, 1993). The concepts illustrated in his manuscript would go on to achieve near legendary […]