Through the Glass Clearly: Finally Seeing Metacognition

The other day my grandson pressed his face to the glass, eager to see what was beyond. The picture makes me smile every time, yet it also makes me think. Education has been doing the opposite for far too long. We have been staring at what is inside the frame: test scores, pacing charts, and benchmarks. What we should be looking at is much bigger. It is metacognition, the simple but powerful act of teaching students how to think about their own thinking.