How are publishers successfully selling curricula with virtually no books… zero novels… and excerpts / passages as the reading list? This summer, our Text Insight Project will explore this issue. Karen Vaites discusses with Holly Korbey in her latest podcast. Link ⬇️

What I learned last week after completing 51 1-to-1 coaching conversations w/NM Structured Literacy Coaches: ask more questions, listen, learn about your colleagues’ needs, ground decisions in student data, build capacity in others. Don’t try to be a fixer; it’s not about you!

First Principles of Teaching and Learning. teacherhead.com/2023/06/09/fir… via Tom Sherrington

1/3 🎙️ Cognitive psychologist Stephen Chew joined me in my latest episode to talk about what makes practice effective, and more! 🔍 Naive vs purposeful vs deliberate practice 🧩 Misconceptions in education 🔥 Why "active learning" may not be so active [00:00:00] Introduction

What the most successful teachers do Indeed. Thanks Nidhi Sachdeva, PhD and Jim Hewitt. I would also suggest that people look at the original which BR wrote for UNESCO - unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0… open.substack.com/pub/scienceofl…

Nothing should stop principals from helping struggling teachers, and yet there are struggling teachers in every school who aren’t receiving help. We should all have very little patience for complacency in instructional leadership. The stakes are too high.

We know new teachers aren’t prepared to teach out of college, so let’s help them learn how to teach when they arrive at our schools. It’s annoying as heck that their programs were ineffective, but they learn quickly when we move on and explicitly show them how to do it.

When it comes to the science of learning, there is one programme that is more closely aligned with its core principles than any other, that has a proven track record of success, and yet it's the one that's least used in mainstream education today.

Cut the fluff: students with disability thrive when we get tier 1 right: clear routines, high expectations, great teaching. Must-read featuring Charlotte Peverett (she/her) 💉💉🦠 💉💉🦠💉 via EducationHQ AU educationhq.com/news/tier-1-no…

There are lots of ways to provide opportunities for retrieval practice inside & outside of the classroom. There are pros/cons or benefits/limitations to different techniques that's why I have always embraced variety. As a history teacher MCQs & short answer quizzes are great

LOVE this analogy-"curriculum is architecture; standards are building codes." Extending this even further (seems to be my favorite game with you Robert Pondiscio 😂) to add--the teacher decision-making while using strong curriculum is the interior design and decor! For more (1/2)...

🧵Part II: How to optimize intrinsic load Pre-teaching, segmentation, and sequencing are classic, well-known teaching strategies, not new or novel. What’s powerful is how CLT explains why they work. Knowing why a method works is just as important as knowing the method itself.

Surely this comprehensive and damning paper is the final nail in Reading Recovery’s coffin.

***CODIFYING FEEDBACK*** Thread What are we doing to codify feedback and create opportunities for students to feedforward? All too often feedback doesn’t create opportunities for students to feedforward and allow application to different contexts from across the curriculum.

*NEW POST* The first in a series of posts on how to move away from strategies and activities to applying the science of learning in a more effective way. Link in reply ⬇️

Get a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach thinking about how lost your child seemed to be in math class this year? Starting to worry that your kid might not have what it takes to ever get a hold of math? The problem isn’t your kid. Or you. The problem is the system.

Filled with a new hope I’ve never felt before that our field really will move forward! So inspired by moving talks from Nidhi Sachdeva, PhD Jamie Metsala 🇨🇦 researchED Canada

Direct instruction offers retrieval and assessment benefits...but more importantly it offers ALL students opportunities to participate and demonstrate learning. #stopcallingonvolunteers Zach Groshell #rEDTO25

“I’ll be honest, silent reading was benefiting me more than it was benefiting my students. Silent reading is not effective for students who cannot decode. Replace silent reading with partner reading.” Loved Mme Lockhart session! researchED Canada #rEDTO25