💡How do you develop math problem solving skills? The data & our experience as mathematicians suggests we focus on:
✔️ Building knowledge
✔️ Explicit teaching
✔️ Practice
✔️ Mastery before projects & inquiry
You need the “scales” before the “sonatas.” 🎙️Episode w/ Nuno Crato link below.

💡 Lowering standards, eliminating exams, removing accountability/transparency measures doesn't help disadvantaged students: it hurts them. They suffer the most. Nuno Crato knows the data inside and out. We talked about it on my latest podcast.

Link to full episode 👉 youtu.be/3pyPQpPOMmc

📚 “Everything starts with the curriculum.” When goals aren’t clear, expectations get watered down & students pay the price. A knowledge-based curriculum (standards) with clear goals is key to meaningful education reforms. New episode with Nuno Crato is out now. 🔥 Link below.

🎯Learning is a civil right. Kids deserve instruction that works. How to do it? Read about explicit instruction. Then do it.
🎥 Clip from my conversation with Anita Archer. Link to full episode and link to resource page with articles below. 👇

🔁 Increasing opportunities to respond is one the most transformative tools in teaching.
More student responses =
✅ higher engagement
✅ more time on task
✅ more learning
We discuss why it's important in the clip. Lots of strategies discussed in the full episode. Link below.

If students were taught well in the first place, fewer would need Tier 2 intervention. Some students are victims of instructional disabilities, not learning disabilities.
This is from my conversation with Anita Archer. Link to episode below 👇

What is explicit instruction? Anita Archer, one of the world's leading experts on explicit instruction, explains it here.
Check out the full episode: youtu.be/EE5wvi-xQTM?...

🎙️From my episode with Anita Archer.
"How well you teach = How well they learn"
The three C's of effective teaching:
Clear ✅ Concise ✅ Consistent ✅
Link to full episode below 👉 youtu.be/EE5wvi-xQTM?...

Just because it's new, doesn't mean it's better. Carl Hendrick unmasking the innovation illusion in my latest episode. Check out the full episode here ➡️ open.spotify.com/episode/0hIj...

Here's Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social unmasking the discovery illusion in my latest episode. @carlhendrick.substack.com Link to full episode below.

Here's Paul Kirschner talking about the butterfly effect in education. Experts often forget what it was like to be a beginner. They’ve become “butterflies” but forget they were once "caterpillars" learning step by step 🐛➡️🦋
Link to full episode below.

Here's Carl Hendrick talking about the engagement illusion in my latest episode. Engagement does not imply learning!

Link to full episode 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/0hIj...

🚨Vague grading systems hide problems & let kids move through grades w/o essential skills. If a grade doesn't mean anything, parents have no idea how kids are doing.
Jonathan Regino & I discussed this in response to a question from one of my listeners. Link to full episode: youtu.be/qHQjt0O2bIM