A year of studying and adhering to Rosenshine’s Principles has improved my instruction, and my students’ learning, more than anything else in my career. They’re a practical blueprint for evidence-based teaching. People often ask, “Where do I start?” Start with Rosenshine. 👇

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Great book and great time to be alive. Can you imagine a world in which every classroom centers around Direct Instruction and high expectations? Until schools embrace mastery learning and learning science principles, it’s going to be same ol’ same ol’.

NEW POST When I moved into primary teaching, I thought guided practice just meant working through a question together. I was wrong. This article explains the shift I made and why accuracy skyrocketed when I did. Includes the full Essential Guide to Explicit Instruction in

Using PISA data from 73 countries, researchers estimated the extent to which growth mindset mediates the association of SES and achievement, and find results consistent w/ the picture of the last 10 years. It's a real effect. It's small. https://t.co/5aSxOKQxZk

“I bet it won’t be easy — or swift.” True. It isn’t easy and it isn’t quick work to guide education reform grounded in evidence. But it is worthy of the time and the effort. Children deserve it, and so do their teachers.

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Math achievement would go up immediately if we reduced the excessive amounts of time in K-2 spent on unguided exploration of concrete materials, low rigor math games, and multiple representations, and simply taught more lessons with clear objectives, modeling, and practice.

Do I Have Your Attention? "Human cognition is complex. Applying our knowledge of human cognition to instructional procedures is more complex. Explaining it in an intelligible fashion is herculean. Blake Harvard has brilliantly accomplished this explanatory task. I recommend this

It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.

The idea that "a noisy space is a good space for learning" is not really supported by evidence (at least in terms of cognitive function). The really interesting is that more noise doesn't affect your effort levels but rather your ability to think. In other words, you can still be

This piece by @ChadAldeman is excellent and the data devastating. If your child is behind early in reading Do. Not. Wait. (Or let their school tell you to take your time). The odds of catching up narrow every year. https://t.co/wVKJFKBBni

So much of what we call reading comprehension failure is basically disguised vocabulary failure. Struggling kids don't need to be taught to "find the main idea", they need to be taught more words. And explicitly. Reading Marzano's book on vocab and I'm fascinated by this table.

This article by @TwengeM is excellent! The screen that ate your child's education "Districts and teachers should also consider scaling back on the number of assignments that require a device to complete in the first place." Exactly. https://t.co/zlfoFjdwuS

A low tech, high text environment is ideal for reading…

If a new teacher comes within your sphere of influence and they want to know the “secret” to great teaching, show them this clip and give them a copy of Rosenshine’s principles of instruction to read. That’s it. Start there and build your procedures and routines accordingly.

Agree! This is an important text for teachers & educational leaders—helps build understanding of why advanced literacy is the goal, what that means, & what that looks like for curriculum & instruction. Equity through excellence in instruction and excellence in outcomes.

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10 Techniques for Retrieval Practice https://t.co/HoOLDgkt1v This 2019 post has had 200+K views now.