This standard is based on Zaretta Hammond’s Ready for Rigor Framework:

• provide appropriate challenge in order to stimulate brain growth to increase intellective capacity
• help students process new content using methods from oral traditions
• connect new content to culturally relevant examples and metaphors from students’ community and everyday lives
• provide students authentic opportunities to process content
• teach students cognitive routines using the brain’s natural learning systems
• use formative assessments and feedback to increase intellective capacity

Posts That Address the Information Processing Standard (updated 11/28/20):

• Culturally Responsive Practice and Adult Learners
• Cognitive Routines
• Equity and Access: The Universal Design for Learning Guidelines
• Kid Equity Group
• Shifting Language, Shifting Beliefs
• Turning Toward Something Better
• Learning to Be a Better Learner