TCSC

In our commitment to ensure all children of Tennessee have access to high-quality education, we embrace the science of learning

COGx & TCSC

A commitment to equity and diversity is supported through instructional approaches that are based on the learning sciences. A partnership with COGx ensures that school leaders, teachers, and students understand and feel ownership over how learning happens.

COGx Grant for TCSC Schools

With a minimum investment of $5,000, TCSC member schools earn a matching grant from COGx per year.

Leader Inventory

Complete our survey to assess your school's current alignment with the science of learning.

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Science of Learning Primer

Gain insight into how the science of learning can support your mission and priorities. Receive a primer distilling decades of research into 10 key principles.

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COGx Online Programs

Program for Educators

Our program, Developing Sophisticated Learners, was co-created with a team of global experts on the Science of Learning. It consists of 12 self-led modules, which are complemented with synchronous group collaboration, assignments, and workshops to support educators. The program costs $400/educator.

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Short Programs for Educators

We also offer shorter programs for TCSC member schools. These programs are derived from the Developing Sophisticated Learners curriculum. Each consists of 3-4 self-led modules which are complemented with synchronous group collaboration, assignments, and workshops to support educators. Each short program costs $150/educator.

Teach for Mastery


Gain a toolbox of memory strategies that will ensure your students remember what you teach them and can apply their knowledge to real-life.

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Teach for Belonging

Discover evidence-based methods to increase student engagement and foster student wellbeing.

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Processing Skills & Learning Success

Learn to successfully capture your students’ attention, address varied processing speed, and unlock the gateway to learning, working memory.

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Executive Function & Metacognition

Crack the code of the executive function and learn teaching methods that raise students’ awareness of their own learning.

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Program for Students

Our program, Becoming A Sophisticated Learner, teaches students how the brain processes information and what behaviors promote optimal learning. It consists of 6 modules of active and collaborative activities. Each module is broken into 3 chapters which take approximately 20-50 minutes to complete. The minimum enrollment is one class (approximately 20 students). For a blended implementation, your educators receive a facilitator's guide that includes lesson plans and activities. The program costs $150/student.

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Program for Leaders

Our program, Distilling the Science of Learning, equips school leaders with the tools to align instruction with learning science. School leaders gain a high-level understanding of how students learn and a toolbox of methods to support faculty. The program consists of 4 self-led modules which can be completed in approximately four hours. School leaders are prepared to advocate for the Science of Learning in their community. The program costs $250/leader.

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Measurement of Impact

COGx is delighted to partner with the Bjork Learning & Forgetting Lab at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA.) This partnership will enable TCSC to measure the impact of adopting our Science of Learning programs on teaching and learning.

UCLA Bjork Learning & Forgetting Lab

The Bjork Learning & Forgetting Lab was founded in 1979 by world renowned experts on learning and memory, Drs. Robert and Elizabeth Bjork. The primary goal of the Bjork Lab is to apply cognitive psychology to enhance educational practice. Bjork's research has identified fundamental learning principles that help educators, parents, and students understand and leverage the science of learning in the classroom to improve student achievement. Drs. Robert & Elizabeth Bjork have received many honors and awards in their distinguished careers. In 2016, they both received the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award which is a lifetime achievement award for their contributions toward improving learning to ultimately address societal issues. Recently, they received the 2020 APS Mentor Award for their work as co-directors of the Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab as well as their work mentoring others throughout the years. Of the more than 80 honors, graduate, and postdoctoral students and scholars the Bjorks have co-mentored at UCLA, a staggering 70% have had successful academic careers in areas related to learning.

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COGx Partner School Testimonials

COGx is the finest example I’ve encountered of cutting edge research applied to educational methodology. All educators should be required to learn effective strategies to develop the foundational cognitive skills students need to engage in the critical thinking and creative problem solving that 21st century education demands.
Sara EdwardTeacher with Masters in Education from Johns Hopkins University
As an educator, I am responsible for teaching students. Yet, in my own education and training to become a teacher I wasn’t prepared to succeed as a teacher because my own learning didn’t include any training on the science of human learning. COGx closes this gap for educators and does so effectively.
Melanie PhillipsHigh School Educator, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Educators agreed or strongly agreed to “How likely are you to recommend this PD program to other educators?”.
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Educators self-reported mastery for each of the program's learning objectives.
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Across all modules, 95% of educators agreed or strongly agreed that “This module has provided me with valuable insights to improve learning outcomes for my students.”

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Educator PD

Developing Sophisticated Learners

What Educators Learn

  • Module 1: Developing Sophisticated Learners
  • Module 2: Capture Student Attention
  • Module 3: Addressing Processing Speed
  • Module 4: Leverage Working Memory
  • Module 5: Support Executive Function for All
  • Module 6: Teach for Mastery I (Encoding Techniques)
  • Module 7: Teach for Mastery II (Retrieval Strategies)
  • Module 8: Foster Metacognition
  • Module 9: Provide Effective Feedback
  • Module 10: Teach for Belonging I (Emotions & Relationships)
  • Module 11: Teach for Belonging II (Engagement & Motivation)
  • Module 12: Personalize for Cognitive Diversity

Who Educators Learn From

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COGx partners with leading experts on human learning to co-create programs on the Science of Learning. Learn from these global experts.

How Educators Learn

Our programs incorporate the scientific principles of human learning into our instructional design. Learning is active, engaging, collaborative, and application-based. Invigorate your lesson planning with science-based tools that will enable your students to master what you teach.

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Educator PD

Teach for Mastery

What Educators Learn

  • The architecture of human memory and its importance to learning success.
  • How to organize units and lessons to ensure students won’t forget what you’ve taught.
  • Commonly held illusions, misbeliefs, and memory myths that inhibit learning.
  • 8 evidence-based memory techniques that help students encode information.
  • 4 evidence-based retrieval strategies that foster deeper learning and mastery.
  • Teaching strategies and methods to help students recall information including activation of prior knowledge and retrieval practice.

Who Educators Learn From

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COGx partners with leading experts on human learning to co-create programs on the Science of Learning. Learn from these global experts.

How Educators Learn

Our programs incorporate the scientific principles of human learning into our instructional design. Learning is active, engaging, collaborative, and application-based. Invigorate your lesson planning with science-based tools that will enable your students to master what you teach.

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Educator PD

Teach for Belonging

What Educators Learn

  • The science behind engagement and motivation.
  • How to engage students including the 3 dimensions of engagement.
  • How to tap into intrinsic motivation including Self-Determination Theory.
  • The impact of emotions on cognition and learning.
  • 5 core competencies of Social-Emotional Learning.
  • 6 essential components of Positive Education.
  • 8 principles of Trauma-Sensitive Education.
  • 3 student mindsets for belonging and learning.
  • Classroom strategies to support positive emotions, engagement, and positive relationships in learning.
  • Classroom strategies and methods that engage and motivate students.

Who Educators Learn From

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COGx partners with leading experts on human learning to co-create programs on the Science of Learning. Learn from these global experts.

How Educators Learn

Our programs incorporate the scientific principles of human learning into our instructional design. Learning is active, engaging, collaborative, and application-based. Invigorate your lesson planning with science-based tools that will enable your students to master what you teach.

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Educator PD

Processing Information: Foundation to Learning

What Educators Learn

  • The 3 core cognitive skills essential for processing information and supporting executive function.
  • The 4 types of attention and strategies to capture your students' attention.
  • Common root-causes of inattention.
  • The characteristics and limitations of working memory, the bridge to learning.
  • How to arrange the content you are teaching to enhance working memory and reduce cognitive overload.
  • Teaching strategies and methods to help students recall information including activation of prior knowledge and retrieval practice.
  • Strategies students can use to optimize working memory.
  • The science of effective multimedia learning and methods to improve teaching.
  • The critical role processing speed plays in learning.
  • Common symptoms of slow/fast processing speed on learning.
  • Teaching methods and modifications that support the variety of processing speeds that exist in your classroom.
  • Classroom strategies to optimize how your students process information.

Who Educators Learn From

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COGx partners with leading experts on human learning to co-create programs on the Science of Learning. Learn from these global experts.

How Educators Learn

Our programs incorporate the scientific principles of human learning into our instructional design. Learning is active, engaging, collaborative, and application-based. Invigorate your lesson planning with science-based tools that will enable your students to master what you teach.

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Educator PD

Executive Function & Metacognition

What Educators Learn

  • What skills are considered executive functions
  • Symptoms of executive dysfunction
  • How to reach students who procrastinate and help students who struggle with organization
  • How to teach students how to plan for long term assignments
  • How to develop your student’s ability to self-regulate, self-monitor and stay motivated
  • What metacognition is and why it is critical to students’ success
  • How to develop and measure your student’s metacognitive skills
  • How to save time and give feedback that works
  • How feedback can boost self esteem, encourage higher-level thinking, and raise metacognitive awareness

Who Educators Learn From

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COGx partners with leading experts on human learning to co-create programs on the Science of Learning. Learn from these global experts.

How Educators Learn

Our programs incorporate the scientific principles of human learning into our instructional design. Learning is active, engaging, collaborative, and application-based. Invigorate your lesson planning with science-based tools that will enable your students to master what you teach.

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Program for Students

Becoming a Sophisticated Learner

What Students Learn

  • Module 0: This introductory module sets students up for success in the rest of the program. At the college-level, this is inclusive of understanding how to form productive habits and extinguish unproductive habits.
  • Module 1: Students learn about the common misconceptions of learning and important, often unknown elements to learning success, including capitalizing on struggle and failure.
  • Module 2: Students develop the soft skills that complement academic success including emotional regulation, growth mindset, and deliberate practice.
  • Module 3: Students learn how to amass knowledge efficiently so what they learn is both durable and flexible and enables them to think critically and creatively.
  • Module 4: Students learn to study smarter and not harder with retrieval strategies.
  • Module 5: Students learn executive function and metacognitive skills that are critical to success in school.
  • Module 6: Applying what they’ve learned in the previous module, students hone their skill set to both monitor and control their own learning.

How Students Learn

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The instructional design of the program adheres to the scientific principles of human learning. We incorporated methodologies that support mastery of content and transfer of skills. As such, the majority of the course is active learning. Each module presents an engaging learning experience through which students are learning-by-doing, through storytelling and collaboration. Students demonstrate their learning to authentic audiences of their peers and beyond.

Facilitator's Guide for Educators

The Facilitator Guide is a resource that helps teachers who are supporting their students. It contains logistics, language to use with students when introducing the program, how to check student progress, as well as optional lesson plans and activities. It is designed to answer frequently asked questions.

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Leader Program

Distilling the Science of Learning

What Leaders Learn

  • Module 1: Developing Sophisticated Learners for Leaders
  • Module 2: Equitable Teaching
  • Module 3: Effective Instruction
  • Module 4: Effective Learning

Who Leaders Learn From

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Learn from a team of global experts on the Science of Learning

How Leaders Learn

Our programs incorporate the scientific principles of human learning into our instructional design. Learning is active, engaging, collaborative, and application-based.

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