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2025

Believing in Yourself to Increase Student Self-Belief
A New Approach to Team Learning
Building Students' Academic Resilience
Is Your AI Bayesian?
Flipping the Script on Human Performance
Community College: Bridging Education and Workforce
Piecing Together The Puzzle of You
Numbers That Shape Student Success
The Future Starts in Preschool
Increasing Impact: A New Tool for an Old Quest
More than a Game: Character Through Sport
Fueling Body & Brain: The Science of Healthier Aging

2024

Getting a Drug to Market
Stress, Sleep & Well Being In Principals
Raising The Bar In Special Education
Unraveling Statistics Using Creativity
(Mis)Identifiying Learning Disabilities Among Bilingual Students
Tracking Fatigue In Soldiers
E-sports and the New Generation
How Ideas Become Mainstream
Creating & Developing 'Global' Sport Leaders
Finding a Sense of Belonging
How Money Is Changing College Athletics
Our Children Deserve Better

2023

Becoming Burnout-Proof
Tackling the Teacher/Coach Shortage
Coming Out & Mental Health
Charter Schools' Spot at the Table
Understanding Inclusion & Accessibility
Reenergizing the American Dream
Retaining Beginning Teachers
The Power of Using Your Voice
A Conquest to Control Cancer

2022

Goldilocks of Walking
Sex Differences in Intelligence & Achievement
Discovering the Wealth of Bilingualism
Writing Gives Young Children a Voice
The Unintended Consequences of Policy
Believing in the Ability to Change
Why Social Connections Matter to Your Health
Scientific by Affiliation
A Bias-Free Assessment of Teaching
Recruiting the Next Wave of Teachers
Research That Saves Lost Readers
Leveraging the “Nature” of Sport

2021

Communication: Translate Others' Behavior
Reading's Impact on Learning Science
Teaching Reading is Rocket Science
Antisocial Social Science
Where There's Hope, There's Life
What Can Creatine Do for You?
What is Bayesian Logic?
Becoming Undocuserving Institutions
Supporting Women in STEM
The Complex Role of a Principal
What It Means to Lead
Meet the Advisor Who's Changing Lives for First-Gen Students

2020

Carl Fahrenwald : Humor and Humility Heals
Steve Martin : Life in the Fire Service
Michael Clough : The Story Behind the Science
Christine Tisone : Breakthrough Moments in Learning & Serving
Melissa Fogarty : More Than A Big Heart
Tamika Gilreath : Military Connected Kids, Stressed Out In School
Susan Holley : What Messages Do You Send?
Steven Woltering : Noisy Brains
Dr. Li-Jen Kuo : Importance Of World And Heritage Language Education
Bin Mai : Emergence of Human-Centric Information Security
Dr. Miranda Walichowski : The Best Minds Do Not Think Alone
Karen Rambo-Hernandez : One Size Does Not Fit All

2019

Science in Silence
Talking with Attitude
Prevention Through Innovation
The I.M.P.A.C.T. of Being Gifted
Online Education is Just Education
Active Students, Engaged Learners
Adulting is Hard
Bad to the Bone
Equity in Access for First-Generation Students
Your Calling is Calling
Improving Skill Memory
Writing Matters

2018

19 Minutes and Falling
Understanding Curriculum through Literature and Arts
Peace through Conflict
The Dragon Doesn't Follow Me Anymore
Using Virtual Reality Technology for Real World Recovery
The High Cost of Grade Retention
Stressed Out: The Personal Lives of Teachers
Putting Social Skills to Work
LGBT Inclusion in Sport
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Cancers
Creating Inclusive Environments in Schools
Providing Mental Health Services to Rural Communities

2017

Spring Cleaning: Spruce up Your Brain
Design Thinking
Workplace Incivility: The Silent Epidemic
Learning Engineering for Better Learning
What is the Military Student Identifier?
Couch Potatoes vs. Frantic Bananas
The Power of the Arts
Experiences in School Reform
Engaging Children with Autism in Reading
Beyond Training
Importance of Nutrition in Aging
Girls in Sport: Recapturing a Lost Generation