The Learning Hub Blog

A student finishes an assessment and tells the teacher, “I thought I knew this.” The teacher asks what happened. The student explains how they studied the material several times, felt confident, and a...

Every teacher has students who seem to disappear during the most important parts of a lesson. They look down when a question is asked, anxiously waiting for another student to answer. If called on, th...

In the previous blog post, we explored why recording and representing thinking is the final step in the CPR sequence. Processing activates understanding, but recording preserves it. When students tran...

In previous blogs, we examined the first and second steps of the CPR model, Chunking and Processing, and continued exploring why cognitive engagement is essential for learning. Students must wrestle w...

In a previous blog post, we introduced the first three elements of Desing Area III of the Marzano Academies Instructional Model, Chunk-Process-Record (CPR), as a way to keep cognitive engagement alive...

Chunking is not simply “breaking content into smaller parts.” It is the deliberate design decision to present new information in digestible bites that students can process, organize, and retain.

In t...