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Happy Friday!
We made it. The year is (almost) done. So for the last, tedious time, a reminder we’re switching to a subscription model next year. Here are the details:
If you don’t subscribe and stay as you are you’ll get:
32 partial issues of The Friday Mindset each academic year. You’ll be able to read and download resources from Something we’re Reading and Portal Talk. We know payment won’t suit a large number of you, so we’ll put just as much into the free stuff every week as we always have.
If you do subscribe, you’ll get:
32 complete issues of The Friday Mindset each academic year. You’ll be able to read and download resources from Something we’re Reading, Portal Talk, Something to Try and Our Latest Offer, whatever p.s. we throw in, as well as… (i) access to our bank of video resources (so good for presentations, assemblies, tutorial ideas) and (ii) an additional issue, our Summer Reading Suggestions, each August.
The subscription cost: £5 per month, about £1.20 per week, or a discounted £50 for the full year!
Many thanks to the brave band of early adopters who’ve hit the button. We really appreciate it! You’ll be getting two summer newsletters covering ten books we’ve found inspiring reading. Want to join us? Click upgrade:
That done, welcome to our 2024-25 round-up!
Nice picture folks. Where’s Lakeview? Lake County, obv. And where’s that? Um, Oregon, by the looks. And what’s it got to do with The Friday Mindset? Erm…
OK, it was a random google image search, you got us. Right, let’s go.
Another 32 issues in the can. What seemed to be most useful and interesting? Well, we’ve gone through all the data and comments to arrive at the resources or ideas that seemed at least marginally more tolerable than the rest 😂
In chronological order they were:
Back in issue 129, we introduced the idea of cognitive maps. High vision students who aspire with a greater degree of clarity and focus tend to have more complete cognitive maps, enabling them to engage in episodic future thinking.
Folks seemed to find this useful so if you missed it…
Sometime in the Autumn we shared a video of Martin talking through Kenneth Kiewra’s studies into note-taking techniques. Kiewra, a professor at The University of Nebraska, explores the strong links between note-taking techniques and recall.
Martin often presents ideas like Kiewra’s to parents, and we shared a video that was part of Martin’s presentation - an introduction to Cornell notes. Seemed to go down pretty well, so if you missed it, check it out here:
Lots of you seemed to enjoy our evidence-based revision bingo from back in issue 144. There’s a grid to print-out for players, then a ridiculous tale that involves many of the revision strategies mentioned.
It’s a load of fun nonsense that’s gone down well when we’ve used it, and served as a timely reminder of high utility revision strategies when we’ve read it aloud and got whole year groups all playing at once.
Skipped issue 144? No worries folks, here’s the link again:
Quite a few of you seemed to get a lot out of our session on Odyssey Planning, adapted from Bill Burnett and Dave Evans’s work at Stanford.
It’s a fun, engaging activity to do with students who are beginning to think about the lives they want to lead in the future, and involves lots of scribbling, doodling, jotting and drawing. The kids tend to enjoy it, and come away with a greater degree of certainty about their vision.
Skipped that particular class? No worries. Here’s Steve and Martin introducing it:
And here’s the handout:
And finally, Martin discussing the difference between be goals and do goals seemed to hit the mark.
More to share on that next year, but for now, here’s Martin introducing the concepts:
And that’s it for this year. (Have we really made it all the way through another one? Seems so.) Three things to remember to do:
Upgrade for two extra issues and of course, for full newsletters next year,
…then hit the beach. That’s it. Oh, and come back with a suntan.
All the best to you and yours,
Steve, Tony and Martin
p.s. The good folk at ALPS have a recommended reading list for the Summer - seven really interesting books. Well, six really interesting ones, plus ours 😂
Check it out here:
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