What Does the Research Say?

Take a moment to investigate (in both print and video) the literature that is the foundation for Shifting Schools and ReImagineWAEd

Videos to Watch


"If there was a moment when our crisis in education hit critical mass it may well have been the date Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk went up on YouTube. In just ...

Can Creativity Be Taught?

Noam Chomsky is an eminent American theoretical linguist, cognitive scientist and philosopher, who radically changed the arena of linguistics by assuming lan...

On Being Truly Educated

Edward L. Deci is professor of psychology and Gowen Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Rochester, where he is a member of the Human Motiva...

Self Determination Theory

Robert J. Sternberg was most recently President and Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Wyoming. Before that, he was Provost, Senior V...

Successful Intelligence

Walter Mischel has research interests in personality structure, process, and development, and in self-regulation (aka willpower). His professional honors and...

The Marshmallow Test

Pasi Sahlberg is Finnish educator, author and scholar. He has worked as schoolteacher, teacher educator, researcher and policy advisor in Finland and has stu...

The Myth of Finnish Education

Daniel Kahneman is Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus at the Woodrow Wilson School, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at P...

On Amos Tversky

Jerome S. Bruner, had just turned 99 less than a week before this video was filmed He was born Oct. 1, 1915, New York, N.Y., He is an American psychologist a...

How Does Teaching Influence Learning?

Joseph Renzulli is an American educational psychologist. He developed the three-ring model of giftedness, which promoted a broadened conception of giftedness...

What is Giftedness?

Carol S. Dweck is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. She graduated from Barnard College in 1967 and earned a Ph.D. ...

Mindset, The New Psychology of Success