MTC

In the Journey to Mastery, How Will Teaching and Learning Need to Change?

COGx & MTC

We achieve mastery by embracing 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 Matching Grant

With a minimum $5,000 investment made within one calendar year, MTC member schools receive a matching grant towards the COGx programs below.

Leader Inventory

Complete our survey to assess how your school's mission and priorities align with the Science of Learning.

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Science of Learning Primer

Receive a primer distilling decades of research on the Science of Learning 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. Partners may enroll staff at the discounted rate with a minimum of 25 educators per program.

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Short Programs for Educators

We also offer shorter programs for MTC 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 $125/educator. Partners may enroll staff at the discounted rate into any of the program below with a minimum of 25 educators per program.

Introduction to the Science of Learning

Get an overview of the Science of Learning including evidence-based teaching practices and strategies. Hone your teaching practice by learning proven techniques and ensure students leave your classroom prepared for the ever-changing job landscape.

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Processing Information: Foundation to Learning

Learn how to capture your students’ attention, address processing speed, and unlock the gateway to learning - working memory. Gain a toolbox of strategies that can be applied to your teaching.

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Support Executive Function
Skills

Why are some students impulsive and procrastinate, while others have difficulty planning and organizing? Crack the code of Executive Function and unlock your students’ full potential.

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Teach for Mastery


Why is most of what we learn forgotten? Why do students overestimate how well they know what you teach them? Gain a toolbox of strategies that will ensure your students remember what you teach them and can apply it to real-life.

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Metacognition & Feedback

Did you know that one of the most effective ways to improve academic performance is by strengthening metacognition? Learn the “ins and outs” of metacognition, metacognitive strategies to embed alongside instruction, and ways to provide effective feedback.

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Teach for Belonging & Wellbeing

On average, 1 out of 2 children suffer from trauma globally while student engagement decreases with every year of schooling. What does this mean for teaching and learning? Discover evidence-based methods to increase student engagement and foster student wellbeing.

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Address Cognitive Diversity

How do you effectively engage and teach your twice exceptional students? How about those with language processing disorders? Learn how your student’s cognitive profiles affect their learning in your classroom and what strategies and systems you can put into place to effectively teach your diverse learners.

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In-Person & Virtual PD Workshops

We also offer customized workshops for your community on the topics listed above. Organizations may select the topics of interest, duration, desired date, and format (in-person or virtual).

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 learning. Each module is broken into 3 chapters which take approximately 20-50 minutes to complete. The minimum enrollment is one class (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 4 hours. School leaders are invited to attend a Mission Mapping workshop and up to 1 hour of personalized consulting. School leaders are prepared to advocate for the Science of Learning in their community. The program costs $250/leader.

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COGx & UCLA Partnership for Impact

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COGx programs are co-created with the world’s leading experts on human learning.​

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.

Dr. Robert Bjork

Professor of Psychology, UCLA; Bjork Learning & Forgetting Lab

Dr. Elizabeth Bjork

Professor of Psychology, UCLA; Bjork Learning & Forgetting Lab

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 Bjork’s have co-mentored at UCLA, a staggering 70% have had successful academic careers in areas related to learning.

COGx 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 schools  to measure the impact of adopting our Science of Learning programs on teaching and learning.

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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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

Introduction to the Science of Learning

What Educators Learn

  • Discover how the Science of Learning underpins the world’s most successful approaches to teaching and learning
  • Explore how learning science complements and supports your school's strategic plan and improves learning outcomes
  • Debunk widely accepted myths around learning and adopt evidence-based teaching practices to use in your classroom
  • Understand neuroplasticity to support your students’ development of the skills needed for successful learning
  • Learn about metacognition to help your students monitor and control their own learning

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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Support Executive Function Skills

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 students' ability to self-regulate, self-monitor and stay motivated.

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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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.

Download Curriculum
Educator PD

Metacognition and Feedback

What Educators Learn

  • 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.

Download Curriculum
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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.

Download Curriculum
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Address Cognitive Diversity

What Educators Learn

  • Signs, teaching strategies, and accommodations for the most common learning differences in classrooms today including Dyslexia, Autism, Twice-Exceptional, Non-verbal Learning Disabilities, and Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.
  • What is Universal Design for Learning and how to use it in your lessons.
  • How to target and strengthen cognitive skills to improve learning ability.

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 1: Learn about the common misconceptions of learning and some basic necessities for learning to occur.
  • Module 2: Uncover the habits of mind and routines to discover what is possible for you.
  • Module 3: Learn the basics of how memory works and strategies to facilitate acquiring and applying information.
  • Module 4: Learn to study smarter and not harder! develop your ability to acquire knowledge using proven techniques that facilitate the encoding, storage and recall of new information.
  • Module 5: Learn about the monitoring and managing skills needed before learning activities occur.
  • Module 6: Learn about the monitoring and managing skills needed after learning activities occur. Finish strong and set yourself up for success next time.

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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