The Classroom Experiment: pt 1

I’ve been an education researcher for about a decade, studying how students learn, how to best teach them, as well as what and why we should be teaching in the first place. I have always been drawn to research, with its focus on isolating variables and getting to the bottom of how things work. And I’ve always been drawn to theory in general, creating conceptual frameworks of how big ideas fit together.

But one thing I’ve consistently heard from teachers is, “you don’t know what it’s like until you’ve been in the…