Strategies to Build a Positive Home and School Relationship: The Key to Student Success
April 27, 2022
Family engagement allows teachers to better understand and support their students.
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The MARIO Framework: Why It Works
The MARIO Framework® pedagogy is founded on what science has revealed about learning – including
disciplines concerning the whole person and the ways we gain mastery.
Neuroscience
Neuroscience
Exciting new neuroscience research shows how one-to-one conversations like those in The MARIO Framework transform the neurophysiology of the speakers, strengthening the junctions between different regions of their brains.
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Medical Research
Medical Research
Insights from medicine inform our emphasis on the relationship between educator and learner. It’s grounded in how “exceptional potential” arises from the careful listening of the medical practitioner to the patient.
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Design Thinking
Design Thinking
Knowledge from design thinking informs our iterative, student-centered approach to goal setting and outcomes improvement.
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Ecological Systems Theory
Ecological Systems Theory
Ecological systems theory sets the context in which we measure our learners’ progress by cultivating their self-awareness.
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Psychology
Psychology
Psychology, particularly research in sociolinguistics, reveals how MARIO’s one-to-one learning facilitates the best outcomes via a flexible combination of educational psychology paradigms.
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Rooted in Research
MARIO Education focuses on what matters most: improving the quality of school relationships through impactful student-teacher conversations.
Psychology
Design Thinking
Medicine
Neuroscience
Explore Our Peer-Reviewed 6-Year Study
Targeted 1:1 conversations every class period led to significant academic gains. Students who participated in our intervention showed notably higher GPAs in core subjects compared to peers in control groups, demonstrating the real impact of meaningful connection.
Emily Farrar
Director of Scientific Affairs at Boston Strategic Partners
Dr. Katie Novak
Author & Founder of Novak Education
Philip Bowman
Co-Founder & CEO of MARIO Education
Our Supporting Academic Researchers
These academic researchers support our mission to help bridge the gap between educational researchers and practitioners. Together with MARIO, they are committed to empowering and inspiring more educators to become teacher-researchers.
Andrew Markelz
Ball State University
Salena Babb
Penn State University
Naomi Church
Growing Minds Consulting, LLC
Patrick LaCount, PhD
Practical Psychological Services
Dr. Kathleen M. Randolph, BCBA-D
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Renée E. Lastrapes, PhD
University of Houston-Clear Lake
Salena Babb
Penn State University
Julie Christine Wharton
University of Winchester
Patrick LaCount, PhD
Practical Psychological Services
Daniel Östlund
Kristianstad University, Faculty of Education
Renée E. Lastrapes, PhD
University of Houston-Clear Lake
Lotta Anderson
Malmö University
Julie Christine Wharton
University of Winchester
Johanna Lüddeckens
Linneaus University
Daniel Östlund
Kristianstad University, Faculty of Education
Grace C Fantaroni
Point Loma Nazarene University
Lotta Anderson
Malmö University
Kelly-Ann Allen
Monash University
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Strategies to Build a Positive Home and School Relationship: The Key to Student Success
April 27, 2022
Family engagement allows teachers to better understand and support their students.
Do teachers treat their students differently?
April 27, 2022
Teachers sometimes treat their students differently from one another, focusing more on the low-performing students.
The Use of Virtual Learning Environments to Support Identity-Based Motivation
April 27, 2022
It is important to establish that difficulties are part of learning and that disfluency can open up possibilities for identity exploration. Virtual learning environments (VLEs) can be designed in such a way that they support this exploration, by looking at features such as gamification, engagement and connection, and learning supports.
What are effective approaches to improve a teacher’s technology skills?
April 27, 2022
Acknowledgment of the power of social media and one’s self-image in driving a teacher’s self-directed and informal professional development, in addition to teacher’s ability to improve their teaching and learning practices, positively influences informal training across an organization.
How did special education teachers adapt their practices for students with autism during the COVID-19 pandemic?
April 27, 2022
As students return to a more normal school routine, IEP teams will have to reassess students’ Present Level of Performance (PLOP) and likely conduct reassessment and revision of IEPs.
The Impact Teacher Psychology Has on Educational Inequalities
April 27, 2022
Teacher attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions are critical in how they have the potential to contribute to or reduce educational inequalities.
Student-Driven Goal-Setting and Attainment: What Causes Differences in Perception Between Student and Teacher?
April 27, 2022
When students determine their own goals and design their own rubrics for measuring outcomes, goal attainment is dependent on whether the student’s rating or the teacher’s rating is utilized as the outcome measure.
The Importance of Trusting Relationships for Students in Higher Education
April 27, 2022
Having regular pedagogical conversations with trusted peers or leaders can lead to a deeper understanding of their field of study, and in turn to the success of the academic program.
Supporting Struggling Readers: The Self-Questioning Strategy
April 27, 2022
In evaluating the intervention strategies we employ with students, we must consider both global effectiveness and effectiveness for target populations, as the success of the intervention may differ depending on the student population it is serving.
