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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 12d

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."

How to Smell like a Dog, with Ed Yong

Spotify video

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The City University of New York @cuny.edu · Jul 9

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 · Jun 10

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 · May 30

I will never stop thinking it's cool when other researchers cite my dissertation.
doi.org/10.1109/ICCA...
doi.org/10.29333/iej...

#EducationalResearch
#EduSky

Leveraging Network Models for Educational Assessment: A Case Study for Analyzing Cognitive Load Patterns in Laparoscopic Surgical Training

Effective educational assessment is essential for optimizing training programs, especially in high-stakes fields like virtual surgical training. This study leverages network models in a case study to ...

doi.org

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · May 4

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 · Apr 29

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 · Apr 28

Try their COIB, too.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · Apr 26

BTW, here's a direct link to my iPoster aera25-aera.ipostersessions.com/default.aspx...

aera-2025 (iPosterSessions - an aMuze! Interactive system)

aera25-aera.ipostersessions.com

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · Apr 26

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 · Apr 18

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 · Apr 18

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 · Apr 18

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 · Apr 18

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 · Apr 18

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 · Apr 6

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 · Apr 2

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.

LRL.short.gy

Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · Apr 2

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

AERA video - draft.mp4

LRL.short.gy

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · Feb 22

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

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · Feb 22

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.

Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · Feb 22

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.

www.researchgate.net

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · Feb 21

Drafted my first pre-registration for a educational research study, feeling cute.

sreereg.icpsr.umich.edu/sreereg/subE...

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#EducationalResearch

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · Jan 29

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 · Jan 29

Legit excited to discover Ishari Amarasinghe and Davinia Hernandez-Leo's orchestration load framework that explores teacher's cognitive loads while leading instruction.

ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#EduSky
#EducationalResearch

Measurement of Teacher’s Orchestration Load: A Framework and a Case Study on Tool Flexibility

Teacher orchestration in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments demands managing multiple tasks across different social levels, often under tight constraints, leading to an incr...

ieeexplore.ieee.org

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · Jan 22

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

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...

doi.org

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · Jan 17

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

Registry of Efficacy and Effectiveness Studies (REES)

sreereg.icpsr.umich.edu

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