By Blake Harvard

Blake Harvard is a high school AP Psychology teacher at James Clemens High School in Madison, AL. He earned his B. S. and M. Ed. from the University of Montevallo. Blake has a particular passion for cognitive psychology and its application in his classroom. You can find him on Twitter @effortfuleduktr. Blake previously contributed a guest post on problem solving, another guest post on biases, and recently started his own blog, The Effortful Educator.

Our very first blog post was about the communication breakdown between research and practice in education. Over the past year and a half, we feel that we have learned a great deal about science communication, though of course we have a lot more to learn. Today, we thought we would feature a guest post from a teacher giving his perspective on the same issues we raised in the original post.

The other day on Twitter, I found myself reading through a somewhat comical conversation among a few edu-twitterers/teachers/researchers concerning the compilation of education research: