Two great things happening on May 3. 1) researchED Canada 2) I'm publishing an awesome episode with a guest from the land down under! See you in Toronto!

Boaler and her supporters apply the word misogyny liberally and selectively. When a man challenges Boaler, he’s misogynistic. But some of Boaler’s supporters have been very aggressive towards women who challenge her work and the same word is not applied. In fact they’re often…

New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school

- significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls
- reduced bullying among both genders
- improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates
- largest effect sizes were among the poorest kids

'I just wanted to stand out': Winnipeg Jets fan goes viral for wearing salmon shirt at Whiteout winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/i-just-wanted-…

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This is the problem with education in Australia. Brown is a prominent maths education researcher at Deakin University. What do you reckon they’ll be telling trainee teachers about explicit maths instruction there?

Justin Baeder, PhD Nope, just more misinformation.

1) I publicly celebrated when Claudine Gay was named Harvard's president: x.com/minilek/status…

2) Here and in other places she claims misogyny, and in other places she claims to be a victim of 'powerful men'. Yet many who have criticized her…

I see a bit of conversation about DI (Sig Engelmann; Direct Instruction) and di (Barak Rosenshine) which I prefer to call explicit instruction, the term he himself originally used. Here's a nice graphic on what DI is:

'But there’s something inherently edifying about working hard and mastering a corpus of knowledge.'

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1/4 My latest guest Tom Loveless was on the National Math Advisory Panel. They reviewed >16,000 research studies (a small %-age met standards of evidence) & surveyed 743 algebra teachers to make recommendations on teaching math. I asked him about what happened after that.…

WOW!! Look at that for a programme!

Still time to get your ticket - that looks worth every penny of $100 (including food!)

What a fantastic line up! researchED Canada Tom Bennett OBE Carl Hendrick Paul A. Kirschner Daniel Willingham Anna Stokke

A 🧵 on explicit instruction, in light of the NSW announcement.
1: I would have not only told you I was teaching explicitly in my first years of teaching, but been highly offended if you had suggested I wasn’t. Spoiler alert: I was giving one explicit instruction 1/

Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation When people have been paid money to promote something as demonstrably ineffective (at best) as Reading Recovery, it is no surprise to see them defending a central tenet of it: apmreports.org/story/2022/04/…

Grading final exams right now! Highly recommend adopting software that allows for blind marking, randomizing order of exams and reusing grader’s comments. More fair for students and simplifies marking for profs. Can’t say enough good things about Crowdmark!

Excellent discussion on PsychedPodcast with Brian Poncy. Have a listen!

Measures and Interventions for Numeracy Development youtube.com/live/2EnUC58Ht…

Jo Boaler cannot claim victimhood. Note to young math-ed scholars. Those of you who thought a claim of 2.8 years of progress from summer school was bogus were right! Don't be bullied by the NCTM-Boaler math establishment! Insist on empirical evidence! You are the hope.

What Direct Instruction is and what it isn't.

I enjoyed my discussion with Nate Joseph about how teachers can determine if a practice is truly evidence-based. I'm looking forward to getting his new book! We discussed it on today's episode. themeasuredmom.com/how-to-underst…

A critique of the Building Thinking Classrooms fad:

Great thread from Zach Groshell on vertical whiteboards.