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SMARTsheets™ are research based teaching tools based on 3 fundamental principles:
 Students learn better when they are actively engaged in processing new information in meaningful ways.
Increasing the learn-ability of information or skills is preferable to dumbing them down.
Students should focus on understanding big ideas rather than memorizing trivia.
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 Professor, University of Alabama
 Research Affiliate, University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning
 President, Makes Sense Strategies, LLC
Edwin S. Ellis has conducted scientific research on strategic instruction for over 30 years and works extensively on putting that research into practice. While his scholarship is well known and studied in the academic community, the practical, user-friendly instructional materials stemming from his research is used extensively in intermediate, middle, and high schools as well as in teacher-preparation programs throughout the US and Canada. Makes Sense Strategies™ is the culmination of over 15 years of research examining ways to utilize principles of brain-based learning and strategic instruction to make complex information more readily understandable, meaningful, and memorable. AYP test scores in schools implementing MSS attest to the robustness of this work. |
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What Teachers Say..
“The Smart Sheets™ worked well for the students. The majority of students were able to reread the article and to select the main idea of each paragraph and then to add at least one major detail that supported the main idea. After filling out the Smart Sheet™, students weren’t as intimidated about composing a paragraph because they had concrete information to include in their paragraph. The . . . process forced them to reread and discuss the article in small groups and helped them to connect and write the main ideas in their own words. It also helped me to hear and observe their thinking processes. The paragraphs that the students wrote were noticeably better than any paragraphs that they had composed before using the Smart Sheets. I will definitely use this with the students again – it is a valuable tool and gives them concrete information, confidence, and an outline for writing.” Gail Schwarz, Reading Teacher, Lake Braddock Secondary School, Fairfax, Virginia
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