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Kris Bertoglio
@loadreductionleadership.com
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Husband, Dad, Educator, New Yorker, Educational Researcher.

Lead developer of Load Reduction Leadership.
https://www.loadreductionleadership.com

Ideas expressed here are my own.
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researchED NYC 2026 is May 2nd. Proposals are due December 15.

If you're doing something interesting and evidence-based in a classroom or school, submit a proposal to share it.

I hope to see you there!

#EducationalResearch
#EduSky
Speaker Proposals: Saturday, May 2, 2026
researchED returns to New York City for the second annual researchED NYC Conference on Saturday, May 2nd. Sponsored by New York City Public Schools through the Office of Manhattan Superintendent G...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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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...

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#EduSky
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October 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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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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September 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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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
A promotional image for NYC Public Schools. The top left corner features the NYC Public Schools logo with 'NYC' in green, blue, and orange letters. Below the logo, the text reads: 'NYCPS is anticipating record hiring this year! SMALLER CLASSES, MORE TEACHERS, BIGGER IMPACT. Apply now: TEACHNYC.NET' The background is dark blue and all text is in white.
July 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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I will never stop thinking it's cool when other researchers cite my dissertation.
doi.org/10.1109/ICCA...
doi.org/10.29333/iej...

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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 ...
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May 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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I spent most of the day compiling and cleaning data so I could make graphs like this for any NYC school.

#RStats
#ggplot
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A ggplot that shows how cohorts of students change their relative performance on state tests
May 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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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.
April 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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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.
April 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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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
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#AcademicSky
AERA video - draft.mp4
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April 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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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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February 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Drafted my first pre-registration for a educational research study, feeling cute.

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

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February 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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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...

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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...
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January 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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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.

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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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January 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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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)
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January 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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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.
January 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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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.

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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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January 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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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
December 31, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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"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 🧵
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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December 27, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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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

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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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December 13, 2024 at 1:46 AM
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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...

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December 2, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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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.

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Picture of a 55-year-old book: 110 Livingston Street by David Rogers
November 22, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Finished re-reading "So Much Reform, So Little Change" this morning.
Posting two final quotes that resonate with my own research.
#EduSky
An image from page 196: ... 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. ...
November 21, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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“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
May 26, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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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." (173)
Excerpt from page 173: "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."
November 16, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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The biggest “aha” for me as a school principal was when I realized it wasn’t my job to “run the school”. Know how I knew? Bc if I was out sick, the school still ran, without me. My job was to coach, develop, support all the adults in the building. Changed everything about how I did my job. #EduSky
November 9, 2024 at 4:19 PM