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Backchannel Discussions - A backchannel is a secondary, text-based conversation running alongside a primary activity such as a lecture, presentation, or video.
Background Knowledge Activation - Before engaging in text-based discussions, instructors activate learners' background knowledge related to the text's setting and themes.
Badge-based competency coaching in which teachers design customized mastery paths and earn badges for demonstrated evidence of practice - This strategy has teachers work with a Data-Informed Growth Coach to design "a customized path toward mastery of core instructional Best Practices and district-selected standards".
Badges - Badges are digital credentials that acknowledge learner work, awarded for achievement levels or additional contributions such as submitting drafts or sharing notes.
Balance cognitive load in digital learning by aligning design-factor costs and benefits with desired learning outcomes via constructive alignment - The review proposes that designers weigh both positive and negative load effects of digital design factors rather than uniformly minimizing extraneous load.
Balance ER implementation with teacher observation and access to materials, avoiding the view that ER is always superior - The article draws two pedagogical cautions from its findings and the literature.
Balance explanation-focused and prediction-focused methodological strategies in motivation research - The essay observes that motivation theories focus almost exclusively on explanation while prediction is given short shrift.
Balance human and automated feedback to optimize writing skill development - The review's forward-looking pedagogical recommendation is to integrate AI-powered feedback while balancing it with human feedback, so that immediate, customized automated feedback is combined with te
Balance skill-acquisition settings with opportunities to practise tasks under peer evaluation - The authors suggest that if adolescents activate compensatory mechanisms to maintain performance when observed by peers, educational settings should balance environments that optimally support skills
Balanced Assessment System - A coordinated system of formative, interim, and summative assessment designed so that assessment evidence continuously informs core instruction, not just end-of-course reporting.
Balanced Classroom Decorations - Curating the visual environment of a classroom so that displays support attention and belonging without creating distracting clutter.
Balancing Homework with Physical Activity - Encourage children to balance homework with physical activity by breaking up long periods of sitting with short bursts of movement, using standing desks, and coordinating with teachers on workload.
Balancing Screen Time with Physical Activity - Promote a balance between screen time and physical activity by encouraging children to use screens for active purposes, such as making nature documentaries, videoing sports skills, or playing video da
Ball Toss Game - A physical game in which learners toss a ball at targets while performing a cognitive task (counting, naming, or retrieving), pairing gross-motor activity with early academic skills.
Barometer — Taking a Stand on Controversial Issues - Learners physically position themselves along a spectrum to represent and defend their stance on a controversial issue, then reconsider after hearing peers' reasoning.
Base inclusive-strategy training on indigenous pedagogies and enable use of advanced evidence-based techniques - The review recommends that professional development move beyond imported Western pedagogies toward training grounded in indigenous pedagogies, since teachers' inclusion efforts were mostly based on We
Baseline Assessment - Assessing learners' prior knowledge, skills, and misconceptions before instruction to calibrate teaching decisions and starting points.
Baseline recipe for NLP studies in learning analytics: datasets of at least 1,000 instances, Random Forest with interpretable feature sets, and BERT/LSTM evaluation - The review distills its technical synthesis into a recommended baseline configuration for future NLP work in learning analytics.
Be cautious with LLM-based TTX assessment and have a human instructor review automated outputs - Based on their findings that general-purpose LLMs sometimes failed to recognize nuances in the domain-specific TTX context even when guided by a standardized rubric, the authors recommend caution abou
Be Present for Students - Making oneself reliably available for individual, low-stakes conversations so students can process difficult emotions and maintain a sense of belonging and connection.
Before a study, researchers should present the proposal to district administration, hold conversations with administrators and teachers, and host parent events to build buy-in - This strategy has researchers invest in relationships before data collection: present the proposal to district administration, hold many conversations with school administrators and teachers, and host
Before applying a normal-distribution stabilization model, agencies should thoroughly explore indicator data distributions with visual and numeric checks - This strategy directs education agencies to check whether indicator distributions align with a stabilization model's assumptions before applying it.
Before learners see a generated lecture video, run a short instructor review pass targeting voice timing, slide–narration sync, and slide rendering - The article recommends that platforms exposing Bespoke's compiled artifacts (objectives, plan, slides, transcript) for a short instructor pass before learners see the video should direct that pass at
Before or After-School Physical Activity Programs - Offer structured physical activity programs before or after school, such as morning exercises, intramural sports, or opening school facilities for recreational use.
Begin career-awareness outreach in middle school to build the pipeline for high-demand fields - NVCC's CCTI health science project reaches students before high school because, in Johnson's words, "awareness must begin while students are in middle school." The college partners with Virginia Hospi
Begin class with a mindful moment to settle students’ minds and bodies in preparation for learning - A deliberate pause at the start of class helps students settle their minds and bodies before learning.
Begin explicit strategy instruction once learners reach a reading age of GE 5 with a critical vocabulary mass in place - The article recommends timing reading and learning strategies instruction to the learner's vocabulary development: strategies become acquirable once fluent reading is possible.
Begin fraction instruction with activities that involve dividing groups of objects equally - An implementable activity sequence in which students first divide sets of objects into equal shares.
Begin improvement work by collecting data and close the cycle by evaluating progress - This strategy operationalizes the article's process for educators: start an improvement effort with deliberate data collection, and finish it by evaluating whether progress occurred.
Begin reform with quick hits on highly visible problems to build collective agency, then sustain a long-term focus on the instructional core - This two-part strategy pairs early, visible wins with sustained attention to teaching quality.
Begin remote lessons with grounding and centering exercises to help students focus - The brief recommends that educators "Begin interactions and lessons with grounding and centering exercises that help students focus on what is happening in their mind, body, and/or surroundings," stat
Begin targeted math support for BVI students in middle school, focusing on algebra-predictive topics with systematic differentiated instruction and inclusive assessment - The review recommends starting support for BVI students' propensity to lag in mathematics in middle school, because success in algebra is a predictor for future college and career success.
Behavior Contracts - A written agreement between teacher and learner specifying target behaviors, expected outcomes, and agreed rewards or privileges, used to shape conduct and work habits.
Behavior Specific Praise - Brief, contingent verbal acknowledgment that names the exact behavior being reinforced, delivered immediately after it occurs.
Behavioral Feedback for Correct and Incorrect Responses - Behavioral science recommends confirming and briefly explaining correct responses, and correcting incorrect ones factually without scolding or dwelling on the mistake, since focusing attention on erro
Behavioral Shadowing - An adult shadows a child closely (within arm's reach) to prevent specific harmful behaviors (e.g., biting, hitting) before they occur.
Bell Ringer - A short, structured opening activity completed by students in the first minutes of class to activate prior knowledge, retrieve prior learning, or set the day's focus.
Belonging Interventions - Brief, targeted activities that strengthen students' sense of social belonging in an educational setting, buffering against doubt and improving persistence and performance.
Belonging-Centered Instruction: real-world examples and integration of students' culture and community priorities into mathematics curricula - The review recommends adapting pedagogy to meet the needs of Black and Latine adolescents to support their sense of belonging in mathematics classrooms, following Matthews et al.
Benchmark AI assistants on specialized educational tasks before classroom deployment - Based on their finding that LLMs remain less consistent than experts and exhibit different failure modes, the authors conclude that "these findings highlight the importance of specialized educational
Berthoff-style sentence and paragraph variation exercises to connect what students write with how they write it - The article describes classroom practices from Berthoff's Forming, Thinking, Writing that ask student writers to study, analyze, and construct multiple variations of sentences and paragraphs in order
Best practices for RL in education: evaluate live with actual users at scale, look beyond STEM, and target under-served learner groups including children - Drawing on the systematic review, the authors distill best practices for implementing RL in education.
Better Planning, Better Process: bottom-up procurement planning through direct contact with teachers and administrators - This strategy has procurement officers connect directly with teachers and administrators to plan for district technology needs.
Big 10 Student Motivators - Ten research-backed strategies that encourage playful learning, innovative thinking, and problem-solving skills while engaging students in core subjects.
Bigger/Smaller/Equal - A whole-body kinesthetic game in which students physically expand, shrink, or neutralize their posture in response to called-out numbers, sums, and differences relative to 10.
Biology instructors should be open to implementing PS-I approaches in introductory courses - Based on Experiment 1, the article recommends that instructors of introductory biology consider problem-solving-first sequencing.
Black Genius Profile - A strengths-based profiling tool through which parents, caregivers, and educators document Black learners' interests, racial identity, skills, and growth areas as an advocacy and personalization instr
Blackout Conversation - Students transform conversational text selections into poetry by blacking out sections to reveal only key terms and phrases, focusing on the meaning, nuances, and silences of each character's dialogue
Blend and braid county sales tax and city parcel tax funding sources to maximize impact and sustainability - The report recommends that system leaders blend and braid funding sources across initiatives so that funding streams reinforce one another, making impact deeper and more sustainable.
Blend foundational CS concepts with prompt-specific strategies as a complementary entry pathway into computing - The authors recommend that prompt-based programming blend foundational CS0 concepts (e.g., function inputs/outputs) with more advanced practices (e.g., test-driven development, edge case reasoning) an
Blend guided and open-ended play to build executive function in pre-kindergarten - The program's instructional approach blends guided and open-ended play with hands-on, interactive learning, targeting core cognitive skills linked to long-term academic and social outcomes.
Blend the PEARLS debrief with CHAT-guided facilitation to extend debriefing from the individual to the team and system - The article recommends a blended debrief approach: the four PEARLS phases (reactions, description, analysis, summary) ensure psychological safety, while CHAT-guided facilitation in the analysis phase
Blend virtual ed-tech practice with regular in-person meetings and check-ins in summer learning programs - The report recommends that districts deliver summer ed-tech programs as structured, blended models combining virtual practice with live interaction.
Blended Cognitive Tutor® implementation alternating collaborative textbook periods with adaptive software lab periods - The curriculum's blended implementation splits weekly instruction between collaborative classroom work and individualized software work: "three periods per week are spent using the textbook for classr
Blended Learning - Blended learning combines face-to-face instruction with online learning through an LMS, offering the advantages of direct interaction and the convenience of eLearning.
Block Play - Block play involves using blocks to create structures and designs, either independently or collaboratively, supporting spatial, mathematical, and social development.
Blocks and Legos: Maker Spaces and Fab Labs - Maker spaces and fab labs provide learners with opportunities to invent, design, and build things.
Board data dashboards for governance-level progress monitoring - A governance strategy in which the charter board receives monthly data dashboards aligned to the accountability framework, designed to identify priorities, set goals and milestones, and track progress
Body Scan Meditation - A guided mindfulness practice in which learners systematically attend to physical sensations across the body, used to build attentional control, emotional awareness, and self-regulation.
Body Scan Meditation Check-In - Students participate in a guided body scan meditation to bring calmness and awareness into the classroom.
Bolster Credibility - Evaluating and strengthening the credibility of a source or argument by checking whether the writer genuinely engaged with opposing views rather than strawmanning them.
Book Clubs - Book clubs are small groups of learners who choose, read, and discuss a shared text.
Book Clubs / Literature Circles - A grouping system that organizes collaborative, student-driven reading and discussion around learner-selected topics of interest, using multiple text types.
Book Talks - A structured, brief conversation in which a learner presents and discusses a book they have read to peers, building comprehension, motivation, and oral language.
BOOKMATCH: Scaffolding Independent Book Selection - A metacognitive framework of eight criteria that scaffolds students' selection of just-right books for independent reading.
Boolean Operators - Explicitly teach Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT, NEAR, parentheses, truncation) so learners can deliberately narrow, broaden, and refine database and web searches.
Bounce Cards - Bounce cards provide a structured way for students to engage in cooperative learning by promoting active listening, turn-taking, and perspective sharing.
Boundary crossing workshop with prototyping exercise and broker facilitation for introducing design principles to design teams - A workshop intervention in which a researcher-broker introduces a set of design principles to a design team, followed by a prototyping exercise: participants build a physical prototype of their curren
Braid local community goals, needs, and expertise into school-based citizen science as a third constituency - The commentary argues that richer learning opportunities lie in three-way engagement amongst scientists, schools, and local communities, beyond the two-way engagement between scientists and schools th
Braid state, federal, and grant funds through a needs-based planning approach to address multiple educator workforce priority areas - The brief's core strategy is fiscal braiding: education leaders 'coordinate, or braid, state funds, federal funds, and specialized grants' so districts can 'invest in strategies that address multiple
Braille Texts for Literacy Development - Braille texts are used to build literacy skills such as decoding, fluency, and syntax through tactile reading.
Brain Breaks - Short, structured pauses in instruction — often involving movement, social interaction, or a shift of activity — used to restore attention and manage cognitive load during extended learning sessions.
Brain Dumps - Learners write down everything they can recall about a topic within a set time, turning retrieval itself into a learning event.
Brain-Based Classroom Redesign - Redesigning the physical classroom environment to support attention, movement, choice, and collaboration by reducing environmental distractions and creating a welcoming, learner-shaped space.
Brain-Based Learning - An approach claiming that instruction should be designed around findings from neuroscience — multisensory input, movement, chunked timing, and rest — to improve engagement and retention.
Brain-Based Learning Activities - Activities that engage multiple senses (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile) to activate different parts of the brain, enhancing learning and retention.
Brain-Based Learning Through Movement - Structured physical movement and multi-sensory activity are woven into instruction to support attention, memory consolidation, and engagement.
Brain-Based Learning with Movement Breaks - Incorporating movement, social interaction, and distributed learning to enhance attention, engagement, and retention.
Brainstorm an emerging GenAI workforce competency for every task in the inventory - For each task in the inventory, the instructor generates the GenAI-related capability the task could develop: "The instructor brainstorms an emerging GenAI workforce competency for every task." This s
Brainstorming - A generative strategy in which learners produce many ideas in a short period, deferring evaluation to increase fluency and divergent thinking before converging on solutions.
Brainstorming 'Stuff We Want to Know About' - Learners and instructors co-create an ongoing, publicly posted list of questions and topics of interest related to course content, which then drives inquiry and project selection.
Brainstorming (Pre-Reading) - Learners generate and share ideas about a topic in a short, timed session before reading, activating prior knowledge and building anticipation for the text.
Brainstorming Topics of Interest - Brainstorming an ongoing class list of topics learners want to know about and are interested in—a phenomenon, an event, or a law, for example—as a foundation for subsequent inquiry and instruction.
Breadcrumb strategy: embed small AI-native skill exercises, nudges, and prompts across multiple courses throughout the four-year curriculum - The Breadcrumb strategy is a lightweight curricular approach proposed by faculty workshop participants for fostering students' AI-native skills.
Break conversation into micro-units to study the structure of interaction - Goffman suggested studying conversational phenomena in "micro-units," which the essay lists as naturally bounded units, basic interaction units, concrete units of interaction, natural units of social
Break large homework assignments into smaller, frequent, short-duration daily tasks - The authors recommend that educators restructure homework so that it is assigned often but kept short, rather than given as long problem sets.
Break Tasks Into Pieces - Divide complex tasks into smaller, manageable chunks with clear checkpoints so learners can complete each piece within their attention and working-memory limits.
Break the writing process into explicit components students move among flexibly - The guide recommends introducing students to the components of the writing process: planning, drafting, sharing, evaluating, revising, editing, and publishing, each defined by what the writer does (fo
Break Time Consequence - Writing instructions in bold letters on the chalkboard stating that students who continue talking during the lesson will have time taken off their break.
Breathing Exercises - Brief structured breathing practices used to settle attention and emotion before or during learning tasks.
Breathing Techniques and Mindfulness Strategies - Teaching breathing techniques and mindfulness strategies equips students with tools to manage challenging situations.
Bridge scientist-educator divides by clarifying visions of participation and identifying scalable practices - In designing a Student-Teacher-Scientist Partnership focused on climate change, scientists and educators bridged the divide between scientific and learning goals by, first, clarifying each of their vi
Bridge the AI intention-practice gap through digital infrastructure, professional development, and supportive institutional policies - The article recommends that effective AI integration in science education requires systemic support rather than attitude change alone.
Bridging Cultures - A professional development approach that helps teachers recognize the individualistic assumptions embedded in schooling and bridge them with the collectivistic values many students bring from home.
Bridging Individualism and Collectivism - Adapting classroom practices so that both individualistic and collectivistic value systems are honored, reducing cultural mismatch between home and school.
Brief initial training plus follow-up courses and coaching for program implementation - The professional development model for Journeys begins with a "Getting Started" course focused on the vision of the program, use of the materials, and implementation of the key components.
Brief initial training with extensive follow-up coaching and on-site facilitation for whole-school program implementation - The SFA® staff development model "emphasizes a relatively brief initial training with extensive classroom follow-up, coaching, and group discussion." First-year schools receive a 3-day summer training
Brief Instruction Steps - Breaking up instructions into short, concrete steps allows learners to pay attention to and remember one instruction at a time.
Brief lectures on intellectual history illustrated with films, records, and print excerpts - The teaching strategies section prescribes a sequence of brief lectures, each on one intellectual or artistic development and each illustrated with named films, records, slides, or print excerpts.
Brief researchers and media on how to calculate and interpret months-of-learning figures before using them - The brief explicitly targets future users of the months-of-learning metric: "To inform future uses by researchers and media, we discuss in this brief how to calculate this metric as well as its trade-
Bright Spaces with Plenty of Light and Air - Designing learning environments with abundant natural light, good ventilation, and comfortable air quality to support attention, wellbeing, and achievement.
Bring high school students onto community college campuses to take placement exams and discuss results with counselors before enrollment - This strategy engages high school students in campus visits where they take actual placement examinations and immediately discuss results with counselors, so they learn where they stand in preparation
Bring nature and nature-based pedagogy into mainstream formal education, with institutional support for outdoor classes and partnerships - The review concludes that it is time to take nature seriously as a resource for learning and to expand isolated nature-based efforts into increasingly mainstream practices.
Bring Something From Home - Ask students to bring something from home that makes their classroom feel more like home, such as a photograph, a stuffed animal, or a musical instrument.
Bring the Outdoors In - Allowing an indoor/outdoor space that becomes an extension of classroom learning.
Broaden co-regulation methodology using trace data, server logs, episodic coding and multilevel modelling - The review recommends methodological expansion for studying co-regulation as a group phenomenon.
Broaden instruments, methods, and expert judgment in psychometric LLM evaluation research - The authors' forward-looking recommendation for the emerging field of applying psychometrics to LLM evaluation is to extend the approach beyond their two case studies.
Broaden measured outcomes beyond high-stakes assessments to include durable skills - The article calls for 'expanding what is measured beyond the narrow set of skills and knowledge captured on high-stakes assessments'.
Broaden search terminology and bibliographic databases in future eWIL reviews - The review recommends that future systematic searches extend beyond the term "work integrated learning" combined with "digital", "online", "technology" and "virtual".
Broaden Your Palate - Deliberately consume news and information sources that do not share your political perspective, to sharpen evaluation skills and reduce biased assimilation.
Broker a formal data-sharing agreement between child welfare and education agencies to identify and serve students in foster care - The article recommends bridging the data divide between child welfare and education systems so adults can understand and support students' academic needs.
Broker Position Circulation - Deliberately transfer a boundary-crossing broker's leadership or facilitation role to a successor over time (rather than one person holding it indefinitely), to counter the tendency for a broker's own
Broker-Facilitated Cross-Domain Integration - Assign a facilitator with prior experience in both domains to pre-negotiate constraints and build trust between institutions before learners arrive, and to explicitly help each side's experts translat
Build a College Promise team spanning internal campus units and external cross-segment and cross-sector partners - The Guidebook directs teams to identify internal partners (leadership, faculty, trustees, foundation, students, financial aid, counseling, research, and special programs) and external partners (K-12 d
Build a communal network of adults as an alternative developmental support system for male children - The paper recommends that communities create a horizontal communal network in which adults assume responsibility for developing young males and their families, regardless of kinship or blood.
Build a Community on Student Voice - Building a community on student voice means structuring the classroom so students routinely contribute to — and increasingly shape — the norms, discussions, and decisions of their learning community.
Build a constituency of educator groups and public advocacy to sustain systemic standards-based reform - The paper recommends that states build a constituency to support systemic standards-based reform to ensure sustained progress and patience with the process.
Build a diverse teacher pipeline through Grow Your Own grants, teacher academies, scholarships, MSI investment, and residency pathways - The brief's Goal 3 and Goal 4 criteria enumerate pipeline strategies states should fund: scholarships and loan forgiveness targeting students of color, rigorous program approval standards, investment
Build agency analytic capacity by hiring technically skilled staff, partnering with vendors, and providing data-use training - The report describes three routes education agencies used to strengthen their capacity to use data: "hiring technically skilled staff, developing partnerships with vendors, or providing training to su
Build agency data capacity by supporting, training, and placing additional data staff - The strategy described in the study is to strengthen education agencies' data-driven decision making by providing "the support, training, and placement of additional staff." Rather than relying solely
Build an after-school/OST-to-teaching pipeline to recruit teachers of color - The brief identifies an underutilized strategy: "recruit and prepare those who have experience working in after-school or out-of-school time (OST) programs to enter the teaching profession." It propos
Build an after-school/out-of-school-time pipeline into teaching to diversify the teacher workforce - The brief proposes recruiting and preparing staff with experience in after-school or out-of-school time (OST) programs to enter teaching, calling this an "underutilized strategy" and a "potentially hi
Build and enhance protective factors in at-risk populations through experimental and intervention studies to support resilient developmental trajectories - The editors' forward-looking recommendation is that the field move from mapping strengths and weaknesses to testing how protective factors can be built or enhanced in at-risk learners.
Build authentic school-family partnerships to reinforce students' social and emotional development - The page recommends that schools form authentic partnerships with families and caregivers, who bring deep expertise about their children's development, culture, and learning needs.
Build authentic stakeholder buy-in through relational strategies: show don't tell, slow down to speed up, engage resistors, and asset framing - The brief recommends concrete relational strategies for leaders seeking buy-in for restorative practices: letting stakeholders experience practices firsthand ('show, don't tell'), making intentional t
Build autonomy-supportive learning contexts through perspective-taking, choice, self-initiation, and non-controlling language - The article recommends that higher education settings foster autonomy support through concrete practices drawn from SDT research.
Build certification-track career pathway programs through consortium colleges partnered with industry associations and universities - The article describes a workforce training strategy in which a nine-college consortium led by Broward College, funded by a $24.5 million TAACCCT grant, developed certification track content and exams
Build Community Through Peer Feedback - Offering students frequent opportunities to share feedback and revise their work fosters a supportive classroom culture and builds relationships.
Build community-wide foundations before implementation through knowledge exchanges and planning meetings across sites - Before implementation, project staff engaged pre-K and kindergarten teachers and administrators across the community in a series of knowledge exchanges and planning meetings, which the report says "pr
Build computational thinking skills in the younger grades through plugged and unplugged activities - The report recommends developing CT skills early: "In younger grades (K–3), students will likely be engaging primarily in computational skills in application to relevant problems in the classroom." It
Build Connections Between Mathematics and Other Practices - The author's recommendation that "mathematics education researchers need to build connections between mathematics and other practices" in order to humanize mathematics and make it normal and ordinary.
Build coordinator capacity through a structured weekly professional learning community with personalized coaching and targeted assets-and-needs-assessment training - This strategy organizes new coordinators' professional learning around a weekly PLC with a structured scope and sequence, one-on-one coaching, and collective problem-solving, supplemented by targeted
Build credentials that respond to four trends: competency- and market-oriented programs, lifelong learning structures, unbundled degrees, and quality assurance - The paper sets out an agenda for community colleges seeking a central role in the new credentialing market: they "must build credentials that respond to four growing trends and imperatives".
Build cultural competence and humility: engage and listen to communities before acting, using funded advisory boards and listening sessions - A funder practice of directly engaging communities before acting, spending time "listening to, understanding, and building trust in communities, rather than jumping right into developing or training c
Build direct employer-listening channels and AI-specific advisory structures for small and mid-sized firms - For districts and program administrators, the brief recommends building direct employer-listening channels for small and mid-sized firms, which dominate Heartland employment but are underrepresented i
Build district capacity so improvement gains are sustained without direct external supports - Because ESSA gives LEAs a central role in school improvement, the article reports that SEAs work to develop district capacity to lead and sustain change.
Build diverse school leader pipelines through HBCU/HSI preparation partnerships, transparent diversity data, equitable hiring supports, affinity networks, and Grow Your Own teacher pathways - The brief recommends a set of state and district actions to increase school leader diversity in Georgia.
Build early-warning indicators and leverage online-learning-system process data to support students before gaps widen in Grade 3 - The authors recommend creating indicators to alert educators to students needing different levels of support, especially for first graders starting below grade level, to minimize widening gaps before
Build educational AI with pedagogical guardrails such as withholding direct solutions and embedded reflection steps - The paper recommends that developers of educational AI treat the purpose of AI in these contexts as genuine learning rather than short-term productivity.
Build educator AI literacy and pedagogical competence alongside student critical engagement with AI-generated content - Among its educational implications, the article highlights the need for teacher capability: "Teachers must be equipped not only to use AI tools but also to critically evaluate their outputs, understan
Build ethical AI integration on four coordinated levels: faculty professional development, ethics curricula, clear institutional guidelines, and interdisciplinary updating - The study's concluding recommendation is that ethical AI use in higher education requires action at several levels simultaneously: "professional development support should be provided to faculty membe
Build faculty-staff connections and peer community to support persistence of teacher education students - The report recommends that current PCC students make connections with faculty and staff, citing research that such connections could increase students' sense of belonging and support persistence.
Build formal feedback mechanisms and an evaluation plan into ed-tech pilots - The report recommends that districts treat student and teacher feedback as a formal component of pilot evaluation rather than an informal afterthought, and that they plan evaluation designs in advance
Build high-retention, supportive pathways into teaching for candidates of color - The report recommends that states and districts underwrite preparation costs through service scholarships and loan forgiveness, fund teacher residencies with year-long apprenticeships and stipends, de
Build identity safety through empathy-building, connection tools, and values affirmation routines - The report recommends concrete relationship-building strategies: empathy-enhancing experiences for teachers, connection-building tools that surface commonalities between teachers and students, and val
Build implementation support through inclusive needs assessments, flexible responses, and online best-practice resources - A strategy for supporting states and districts in implementing data-linking initiatives: develop needs assessments that are more inclusive, meet states' changing needs flexibly, and publish best-pract
Build in stop-and-reflect moments asking students what thinking they are doing versus what thinking the AI is doing - The guide recommends, in both its agency and metacognition sections, to "Build in stop-and-reflect moments for students: What thinking are you doing?
Build in Thinking Time - Providing dedicated, silent thinking time before pair talk allows students to generate their own ideas and rehearse explanations before being influenced by their partner.
Build infrastructure-level mechanisms to monitor, benchmark, and control LLM response behavior across model transitions in conversation-based assessment - The article recommends treating response consistency in conversation-based assessment as an infrastructure challenge rather than a prompt-engineering challenge.
Build institutional AI literacy and transparent risk-communication governance for agentic AI browsers - The article recommends that institutions act now to reduce harm and increase adversarial awareness rather than waiting for regulation, since current policies focus almost exclusively on student output
Build institutional data-use practice: train instructors to analyze learner data and align product data to required assessments - To move beyond minimal usage tracking, programs should build a data-use culture: set clear outcome goals, build in the expectation that instructors monitor learner progress with data, provide training
Build L1 commands for survey and learning tactics into delivery system software, with an L2 advisor when strategy is involved - The report recommends that delivery system software contain functions at the L0 level of discourse at minimum, but argues that interaction is highly restrictive unless L1 commands are available, at le
Build learnity-graph-centered infrastructure with graph engine, evidence layer, analytics layer, and recommendation engine - The article recommends developing infrastructure to support learnity graphs, potentially through LMS systems centered on learnity graphs rather than on courses.
Build local capacity by recruiting and training staff from the schools' rural zones - The pilot emphasizes local capacity-building by choosing to "Recruit and train staff in the schools’ rural zones." This strategy pairs educator training in tech-informed pedagogy with hiring from the
Build long-term systems to track English learner progress, including students who have exited EL status - The guide recommends developing systems to track and monitor English learner progress, noting that current data collection is "inconsistent and often paints an incomplete picture of these students' ex
Build mathematics instruction on children's funds of knowledge uncovered through home visits and teacher study groups - The review highlights Civil's (1996) work with elementary, working-class, language-minority children, in which the idea of "funds of knowledge" is used to develop teaching innovations that capitalize
Build metacognitive reflection opportunities into AI-integrated instruction to prevent cognitive overload - The article recommends that instructional designers integrating AI into instruction create structured opportunities for students to reflect on their learning and monitor their AI use.
Build new frontier-model benchmarks from new hard tasks with expert verification and adequate curation resources - The article recommends replacing near-saturated, defect-ridden closed-ended benchmarks with a new style of evaluation.
Build on children's anthropomorphic explanations as bridges into scientific concepts instead of correcting them - Rather than the two common constructivist responses of ignoring animistic ideas or teaching as if they were true, this strategy takes a child's anthropomorphic explanation and uses it as a direct link
Build on children's informal proportional understandings to prepare for ratio and proportion - Beyond sharing and dividing, the presentation reports that researchers and mathematics educators suggest building on children's informal understandings of proportional relationships.
Build organizational partnerships to disseminate educator development strategies - The blueprint presents an approach to building organizational partnerships whose purpose is to share and strengthen educator development strategies.
Build organizational strength over time using staff changes as one of many mechanisms, per the IES School Turnaround Practice Guide recommendations - The report endorses the IES Practice Guide on School Turnaround, whose recommendations—drawn from case studies of substantially improved schools—include establishing strong leadership focused on schoo
Build personal connections and find common ground in research-practice partnerships - Project partners Neil and Traci advise that "Personal connections are vital" in partnership work: finding common ground with colleagues, clients or students so relationships form, enabling empathy and
Build regular reiteration of previously covered vocabulary topics into the EFL curriculum - The authors recommend that, because the curriculum allocates only about a month to 100-120 target lexemes, courses should systematically revisit previously covered topics.
Build relational school resources (teacher–student relationships, peer support, encouragement, extracurriculars) to scaffold self-regulation for low-efficacy marginalized students - Based on the moderated mediation findings, the authors recommend that schools support the relational resources through which belonging translates into regulated learning for struggling students.
Build Relationships with Each Student - Create positive learning environments and engaging instruction to help all students achieve success.
Build research programs combining studies optimized for internal validity with studies optimized for ecological validity - The commentary concludes that the dual goal of use-inspired basic research probably cannot be fully accomplished within single studies, because integrating learning into the school curriculum costs ex
Build safety and belonging by detracking, offering low-barrier extracurriculars, and implementing restorative approaches in place of exclusionary discipline - The brief recommends that secondary schools replace structures that segregate and separate students with three alternatives: detracking into heterogeneous learning opportunities, varied and enriching
Build school leaders' instructional leadership through five PLC sessions on school-wide data systems - A parallel leadership recipe strengthens principals and other leaders: "Strengthen school leaders' skills in developing school-wide systems to support data use and providing coaching and instructional
Build shared districtwide and schoolwide responsibility for multilingual learners' attendance through a multitiered approach with a strong foundational tier - The brief recommends that a collective commitment to English learners' attendance begin with "adopting a multitiered approach, with a strong focus on the foundational tier," which creates positive con
Build staff buy-in and mastery through opt-in professional development, social signaling, and preparation for fallback moments - The report recommends developing staff mastery of restorative practices because programming often fails to shift school practices when staff hesitate to adopt them.
Build state AI evaluation on the ESSA evidence framework and integrate results into the existing education evidence base - In their discussion, the authors call on state leaders to co-design guidance with communities and to build collaborative approaches on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015, which established
Build strategic relationships with district administrators, unions, county offices, universities, and funders to sustain teacher-led professional learning - The casebook's fifth lesson is that ILC teacher leaders gain the greatest traction by building relationships with district administrators, teachers associations, county offices of education, universit
Build strategic relationships with districts, associations, county offices, and universities to support and institutionalize teacher-led professional learning - The report's fifth lesson is that ILC teacher leaders gained the greatest traction when they built relationships with district administrators, teachers associations, county offices of education, unive
Build student ownership through student-led conferences, town halls, and college and career readiness activities - The article recommends a bundle of student-agency practices: Student-Led Conferences in which all students engage "in reflective academic discussions that promote ownership of their learning," monthly
Build students' intrinsic motivation and share learning sciences principles with students to support buy-in and ownership - The report highlights research on the importance of building students' intrinsic motivation to learn rather than relying on external rewards; d.tech's extension passion projects embody this, where the
Build teacher AI readiness through structured institutional support: professional development, mentoring, technical assistance, and AI literacy in teacher education - The article recommends that educational institutions strengthen teacher confidence through structured, ongoing support rather than treating resistance as individual reluctance.
Build teacher capacity through iterative, equity-centered professional development for pathway implementation - In Year 3 of the partnership, development activities supported pilot teachers to implement the inclusive pathway by designing, implementing, and iterating on professional development resources for tea
Build the STEM evidence base and expand capacity for monitoring and evaluation of programs like REU - The fact sheet frames its contribution as "Building the STEM evidence base and expanding capacity for monitoring and evaluation" of the NSF REU program.
Build the vigilance disposition through an AI partnership whose support is faded as the learner takes over evaluation - The paper's closing recommendation is to develop the vigilance disposition through a partnership whose support is gradually faded as the learner takes the evaluation over, rather than leaving the disp
Build Time for Self-Reflection - Deliberately scheduling structured time for teachers to reflect on new practices and what they learned from the process, rather than only on whether the attempt succeeded or failed.
Build trust early through quick wins and visible responsiveness to feedback, using a tiered rollout to grow champions - For solution providers, the report recommends delivering "on quick wins that visibly change the tool to demonstrate responsiveness and foster buy-in." The case shows that when Innovare demonstrated re
Build trusting relationships among workgroup participants through structured facilitation - The R15CC team deliberately cultivated meaningful and trusting relationships among participants as "an essential foundation for authentically sharing opinions and experiences." Practices included purp
Building a Sound Wall - A sound wall is a classroom display organized by phonemes (typically by manner of articulation) that makes the speech-sound-to-letter mapping explicit and serves as an ongoing reference for explicit p
Building a Supportive Classroom Environment for Mistakes - Specific teacher actions that establish a classroom culture in which errors are treated as information and opportunities for learning rather than failures to be penalized.
Building a Trusting Community - The key step is building a trusting community by giving students time to reflect and write about elements of their lives and to share these reflections.
Building Community Through Peer Feedback in PBL - Building community through peer feedback involves giving students frequent, structured opportunities to exchange feedback on project work and revise it, using critique as the vehicle for building clas
Building Cultural Competency Skills for School Staff - Training staff in behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enable effective cross-cultural relationships with students and families.
Building Trusting Relationships - Prioritizing building relationships with learners can create a supportive and safe learning environment.
Bundle GMT with explicit training on desirable difficulties, metacognitive miscalibration, and effective study strategies such as retrieval practice - The authors propose that rather than abandoning GMT, "research should investigate whether GMT might be more impactful if accompanied by training in effective learning strategies, such as retrieval pra
Bystander Intervention Training - Training that equips community members to recognize problematic situations and intervene safely as third parties, rather than relying on formal authorities or direct victims.