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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 26/10/2025

Street et al.'s paper (with @sigrunertesvag.bsky.social) on preservice teachers' cognitive load is the best thing I've read today. Teachers experience a variety of intense cognitive loads, and this is a productive approach to explore them. doi.org/10.1016/j.ta... #EducationalResearch #EduSky

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 26/09/2025

Loved the last episode of @sciencevs.bsky.social with Ed Yong. "What is happening [to scientific infrastructure] in this country is happening because science is bad for tyrants and always has been. ... You have got to stop the tyranny, not try to make a better case for why science should exist."

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How to Smell like a Dog, with Ed Yong

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The City University of New York @cuny.edu · 09/07/2025

Did you know? @nycschools.bsky.social is anticipating record hiring this year for teacher positions across the city! 🍎 If you are a New York State-certified teacher or are on track to be certified by September 1st, apply now to increase your chances of landing your dream job: bit.ly/teachnyc-cuny

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 10/06/2025

I just submitted something to NERA that aspires to be what you're looking for. Please let me know if you'd like me to email a copy.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 04/05/2025

I spent most of the day compiling and cleaning data so I could make graphs like this for any NYC school. #RStats #ggplot #EducationalResearch

A ggplot that shows how cohorts of students change their relative performance on state tests

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 29/04/2025

Proud to share that my iPoster was the third "most popular" of more than a thousand shared during #AERA2025. Thanks to everyone who engaged with this work, Division A for selecting it, and AERA for including a virtual participation option. aera25-aera.ipostersessions.com?s=77-B3-8A-F...

Picture of AERA iPresentation gallery sorted for "most popular." Kris's presentation is listed third.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 26/04/2025

If anyone else is having as much difficulty as I did trying to participate in #AERA2025 and access the i-presentation gallery, DM me for the link.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 18/04/2025

This may close out what I can do with Load Reduction Leadership without much more involved IRB and COIB processes. So, it may be a while before I can publish another article on this theory.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 18/04/2025

This experience has not led me to abandon load reduction leadership as a theory to explain school-level performance differences. Applying the Duhem-Quine thesis has led me to reject using Quality Review documents to measure leaders' impacts on cognitive load beyond the most extreme cases.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 18/04/2025

The present study included 120+ Quality Review documents and was not limited to extreme cases. With 25% of documents analyzed, it was not on track to reach significance, even at p < .05.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 18/04/2025

Those studies analyzed 14 and 30 NYC School Quality Review documents, representing opposite ends of school impact and discipline, respectively, and both had significance p < .001.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 18/04/2025

I am abandoning this study. The study aimed to expand on patterns identified in two smaller load reduction leadership studies that explored smaller sets of extreme examples using similar methods.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 06/04/2025

Thanks for taking the time to review this and offer feedback. Those are good ideas, and I'll incorporate them into the next iteration. So far, my work on this has been chiefly conference papers, but it's all at loadreductionleadership.com/publications.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 02/04/2025

For context, this will be embedded in my i-Presentation (lrl.short.gy/DraftPoster) and is my first attempt at making a video like this.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 02/04/2025

I'm looking for feedback! Here's a 3.5-minute video summarizing my 2025 AERA paper: lrl.short.gy/DraftVid How could I make this shorter? What should I definitely keep in future iterations? What else should change? #EduSky #EducationalResearch #AcademicSky

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 22/02/2025

As someone doing research outside a university environment, I would absolutely use this.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 22/02/2025

Hi, Howie! I'm a big fan of your work. I look forward to your posts for delightful brain breaks and periodically share your content with math teachers I support.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 22/02/2025

It's super cool to see my dissertation cited by other researchers within its first year. The jist is there: leaders who overload teachers don't improve schools, but CLT-aligned leadership practices do... even if the publication year and and the framework's name are a little off.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 21/02/2025

Drafted my first pre-registration for a educational research study, feeling cute. sreereg.icpsr.umich.edu/sreereg/subE... #EduSky #EducationalResearch

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 29/01/2025

Cognitive load while teaching has always been an implicit, vague part of load reduction leadership. It's fantastic to see folks explicitly measuring teachers' cognitive loads and how different instructional materials impact them.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 22/01/2025

Kathleen Lynch's article applying behavioral economics to teacher PD parallels many of load reduction leadership's PL-related conclusions but takes a different path getting there. Lots of great recommendations for running and studying professional learning. #EduSky #EducationalResearch

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The Application of Behavioral Economics to Teacher Professional Development - Kathleen Lynch, 2024

Teacher professional development (PD) is among the most prominent levers used to improve teaching quality. The findings of research studies examining PD interve...

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 17/01/2025

I want to pre-register my next couple of studies, and am leaning toward the Registry of Efficacy and Effectiveness Studies (REES; sreereg.icpsr.umich.edu). Does anyone have advice or recommendations for pre-registering educational research? #edusky #educationalresearch #OpenScience

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Registry of Efficacy and Effectiveness Studies (REES)

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 14/01/2025

In lots of industries managers streamline workflows to improve performance... that's not necessarily the case in ours. #edusky

Distracted boyfriend meme template. Boyfriend = school leaders. Girlfriend = make it easier for employees to do their jobs. Girl in red = give teachers lots more new things to do and worry about.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 10/01/2025

Thank you for sharing this. It's a lovely articulation of how GenAI cannot compensate for users with too much hubris and not enough relevant background knowledge.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 08/01/2025

You can have mine, but I don't have permission to DM you.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 07/01/2025

Parts of Ollie Lovell's conversation with Steve Capp echoed interviews with transformational leaders from LRL's first hypothesis tests. Persistent attention to teachers' cognitive load is a key and under-explored piece of effective school improvement. #edusky #educationalresearch

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ERRR #098. Steve Capp on Effective School Leadership | Ollie Lovell

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Audible, Castbox, Podbean, iHeartRadio, or wherever else you get your podcasts! This episode…

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 31/12/2024

Finished reading A House Between Earth and the Moon by Rebecca Scherm. Can't remember how it ended up on my TBR, but glad it was. The sort of science fiction that will haunt me in quiet moments for years to come. 5/5

A cover image of A House Between Earth and the Moon by Rebecca Scherm

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

"Rather than chasing newsworthy 'surprising' effects that turn out to be difficult to replicate, we should strive to uncover the general principles that underlie social phenomena, whether surprising or not." New article by Arie Kruglanski and @sophiamoskalenko.bsky.social Few quotes follow 🧵

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Social psychology in the age of uncertainty: A tale of three quandaries

We examine the current state of social psychology in terms of three major quandaries that challenge our field: Value, Trust, and Purpose. The Value quandary involves balancing commitments to truth ...

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 13/12/2024

Do you have expertise in CLT, teacher working conditions, or the day-to-day business of leading school improvement? Feedback, related anecdotes, and other thoughts about this work are very welcome.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 13/12/2024

This practitioner-facing guide, based on the codebook used in the last few LRL studies, summarizes heuristics and concrete actions leaders can take to overload staff less frequently and create space for long-term school improvement.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 13/12/2024

Finally finished the first draft of 'The School Leaders' Atlas of Load Reduction Leadership.' This document extrapolates cognitive load theory to describe leadership practices that differentiate consistently improving schools from the rest. lrl.short.gy/atlas #edusky #educationalresearch

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LRL Atlas

The School Leaders' Atlas of Load Reduction Leadership Kris Bertoglio, EdD This living document describes school leadership practices make up Load Reduction Leadership. We compiled these from decad...

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 02/12/2024

Also, their use of job demands-resources theory to explore variations in teachers' genAI adoption makes way more sense than all the SAMR variations I see floating around.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 02/12/2024

Working for a school district focused on developing staff genAI capacity, this paper by @rebeccajcollie.bsky.social, Martin, & Gasevic is both insightful and helpful in conceptualizing a pathway for genAI's most productive uses. doi.org/10.1016/j.ca... #EducationalResearch #edusky

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 27/11/2024

I don't have numbers, but there are similar trends in NYC. When I started teaching, chem, physics, bio, and Earth had separate and robust local teachers associations and conferences. Those have faded while membership in transdisciplinary STEM groups has grown.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 22/11/2024

Has anyone read this recently? What else should I hope to get from it?

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 22/11/2024

My next non-digital book is David Rogers's (1968) 110 Livingston Street: Politics and Bureaucracy in the New York City Schools. Reading it for wisdom and insight into the system I inhabit, how it became what it is, and what it might revert into. #educationalresearch

Picture of a 55-year-old book: 110 Livingston Street by David Rogers

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 21/11/2024

"A stressful, low-reward environment predisposes people to construct an affirming worldview, one that tells them they are already doing everything that's possible under the circumstances." (p 196)

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 21/11/2024

"[A]ll high-quality schools possess a unifying design that allows all staff members to perform to the best of their abilities and that integrates research-based practices into a coherent and mutually reinforcing set of effective approaches to teaching and learning for the entire school." (p 158)

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 21/11/2024

Finished re-reading "So Much Reform, So Little Change" this morning. Posting two final quotes that resonate with my own research. #EduSky

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... A stressful, low-reward environment predisposes people to construct an affirming worldview, one that tells them they are already doing everything that's possible under the circumstances. ...

An Image from page 158, quoting Berends, Bodilly, & Kriby (2002).

...[A]ll high-quality schools possess a unifying design that allows all staff members to perform to the best of their abilities and that integrates research-based practices into a coherent and mutually reinforcing set of effective approaches to teaching and learning for the entire school. ...

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Christopher Murphy @imminentmurphy.com · 26/05/2024

“Be careful not to overcomplicate your systems to the point where you can only maintain them when you are at your peak of mental clarity.” -the David Allen Company #Quotes

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 16/11/2024

Without diminishing the need for urgency, maybe we should also invest more directly in building school capacities to execute complex change.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 16/11/2024

"Perhaps the safest generalization one can make about urban schools or school districts is that most of them are trying to do too much too fast, initiating programs on the basis of what's needed rather than on the basis of what they are capable of." (173)

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"Perhaps the safest generalization one can make about urban schools or school districts is that most of them are trying to do too much too fast, initiating programs on the basis of what's needed rather than on the basis of what they are capable of."

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 12/11/2024

I will give school people realistic estimates of how much time and money it takes to implement my program. (p 153)

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 12/11/2024

I will not expect change overnight I will take time to study the history of reforms similar to mine I will not try to scale up prematurely If I am not in the field myself, I will take seriously what the field workers tell me

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