Zach Groshell
@mrzachg.bsky.social
Teacher now developing teachers | PhD | Obsessed with improving schools | Progressively Incorrect🎙️
Author of Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching
Author of Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching
July 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Explicit instruction is a coordinated set of design and delivery tactics - a problem-solving approach - guided by working models of learner readiness and task complexity that adapt in response to observable changes in student performance.
It’s not just the part where you talk.
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It’s not just the part where you talk.
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June 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Explicit instruction is a coordinated set of design and delivery tactics - a problem-solving approach - guided by working models of learner readiness and task complexity that adapt in response to observable changes in student performance.
It’s not just the part where you talk.
a.co/d/3DyjV8g
It’s not just the part where you talk.
a.co/d/3DyjV8g
June 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The theme of this conference was “Next steps in the science of reading” and I made the argument that we need to apply what we’re doing in early literacy - explicit systematic instruction to manage working memory - to everything else we teach because learning is learning.
June 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The theme of this conference was “Next steps in the science of reading” and I made the argument that we need to apply what we’re doing in early literacy - explicit systematic instruction to manage working memory - to everything else we teach because learning is learning.
I helped put together this conference for teachers about direct and explicit instruction - a method that is both research-based and frequently mischaracterized by the overlords of education.
June 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I helped put together this conference for teachers about direct and explicit instruction - a method that is both research-based and frequently mischaracterized by the overlords of education.
Would love to see you at my Learning & the Brain session from 2:30-3:30 on Saturday in New York West (3rd Floor)!
April 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Would love to see you at my Learning & the Brain session from 2:30-3:30 on Saturday in New York West (3rd Floor)!
Lots of folks doing book clubs on my book - because explicit instruction rocks!
I’d love to join and say hi!!!
I’d love to join and say hi!!!
April 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Lots of folks doing book clubs on my book - because explicit instruction rocks!
I’d love to join and say hi!!!
I’d love to join and say hi!!!
February 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
From what I just learned, not having taught it either but hearing a lot of criticism of it, is it’s an example of minimally guided instruction. I use the definition given by advocates of inquiry in the literature: a cycle that replicates the inquiry process of the field.
February 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
From what I just learned, not having taught it either but hearing a lot of criticism of it, is it’s an example of minimally guided instruction. I use the definition given by advocates of inquiry in the literature: a cycle that replicates the inquiry process of the field.
So great doing this book club with KIPP North Carolina!
February 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
So great doing this book club with KIPP North Carolina!
Come meet Peps Mccrea, Sam Sims, Harry Fletcher-Wood and others at one of our May instructional coaching intensives!
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February 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Come meet Peps Mccrea, Sam Sims, Harry Fletcher-Wood and others at one of our May instructional coaching intensives!
Registration 👇 🔗
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Registration 👇 🔗
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If you’re going to invest in an instructional coaching program, you have to train coaches to do coaching cycles effectively. We have intensive one-day training courses coming up in May that focus on modeling and practicing the core of what coaches do. See you there!
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February 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you’re going to invest in an instructional coaching program, you have to train coaches to do coaching cycles effectively. We have intensive one-day training courses coming up in May that focus on modeling and practicing the core of what coaches do. See you there!
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My daughter is under here.
January 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
My daughter is under here.
Why Educators Resist Effective Practices by Carnine for PFT, Explicit Instruction: Historical and Contemporary Contexts by Hughes et al, and this for working memory
December 11, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Why Educators Resist Effective Practices by Carnine for PFT, Explicit Instruction: Historical and Contemporary Contexts by Hughes et al, and this for working memory
Schools are buying my book in bulk and doing book clubs for it. You can get discounts by going through the publisher, John Catt. I’d love to pop in for a Zoom session if you’re running one of these with a group of educators.
November 29, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Schools are buying my book in bulk and doing book clubs for it. You can get discounts by going through the publisher, John Catt. I’d love to pop in for a Zoom session if you’re running one of these with a group of educators.
Check out this lovely foreword by Paul Kirschner to my book, Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching www.amazon.com/Just-Tell-Th...
November 22, 2024 at 3:57 AM
Check out this lovely foreword by Paul Kirschner to my book, Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching www.amazon.com/Just-Tell-Th...
Number 1 book in education 🥲
November 18, 2024 at 4:50 AM
Number 1 book in education 🥲
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November 17, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Join us to learn about how Steplab’s evidence-based approach, including our library of Teach Like a Champion-style techniques and our observation/feedback engine, makes coaching more efficient and effective. 🇺🇸🇨🇦
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So close to beating my nemesis, Building Thinking Classrooms hahaha a.co/d/631YYMw
November 17, 2024 at 5:19 AM
So close to beating my nemesis, Building Thinking Classrooms hahaha a.co/d/631YYMw
November 5, 2024 at 3:20 AM
So you know how you kind of just teach the material directly and explicitly despite your university telling you, directly and explicitly, that you should let the kids inquire into the material and make their own discoveries? Well, this book is for you!
November 5, 2024 at 3:19 AM
So you know how you kind of just teach the material directly and explicitly despite your university telling you, directly and explicitly, that you should let the kids inquire into the material and make their own discoveries? Well, this book is for you!
What an amazing time presenting on explicit instruction to 1,200 people. First the @steplab.bsky.social announcement and now this, it’s cray. In a time when so much is put on teachers, schools find it so refreshing to return to an emphasis on teaching.
October 6, 2024 at 10:48 PM
What an amazing time presenting on explicit instruction to 1,200 people. First the @steplab.bsky.social announcement and now this, it’s cray. In a time when so much is put on teachers, schools find it so refreshing to return to an emphasis on teaching.
📣 I’m delighted to announce I am joining team @steplab.bsky.social as Director for North America!
Just like me, Steplab is dedicated to providing evidence-based PD for teachers and their students. 🚀
Can’t wait for N American schools to benefit from Steplab too!
Just like me, Steplab is dedicated to providing evidence-based PD for teachers and their students. 🚀
Can’t wait for N American schools to benefit from Steplab too!
September 30, 2024 at 10:28 PM
📣 I’m delighted to announce I am joining team @steplab.bsky.social as Director for North America!
Just like me, Steplab is dedicated to providing evidence-based PD for teachers and their students. 🚀
Can’t wait for N American schools to benefit from Steplab too!
Just like me, Steplab is dedicated to providing evidence-based PD for teachers and their students. 🚀
Can’t wait for N American schools to benefit from Steplab too!