
Laura Stam
@stamstam193
Elementary educator, Goyen Fellow 24-25, The Reading League Wyoming Founding Board Member, focused on Literacy and Science of Learning
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“Cognitive Load Theory is the single most important thing for teachers to know.” Dylan Wiliam 🧠☀️Summer in the SoL Lab continues! Oliver Lovell Tom Sherrington My plan is to develop a purposeful framework to optimize intrinsic load and reduce extraneous load “in the wild”.



*NEW BLOG POST* A new post from me and LambHeartTea (she/her) on I, We, You prompted by a post from Adam Boxer theeducationalimposters.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/i-w…


Jo-Anne Gross Laura Stam Carl Hendrick Nidhi Sachdeva, PhD Structure and scrips for many things are like compound interest. You really see the learning benefit over time.

Knowledge-Building for Teachers Series: The American Revolution If you teach Core Knowledge, this is perfect for grades 1 and 4. This post has several resources from American Battlefield Trust American Battlefield Trust, an amazing resource for educators. open.substack.com/pub/lstam/p/am…



Laura Stam Have you heard of doctors pay doctors or engineers pay engineers for their primary day to day tools?




🎯 TAPPLE! In this edition of ⚗️DistillED, we unpack TAPPLE—an effective routine from Explicit Direct Instruction by Hollingsworth & Ybarra that helps teachers Check for Understanding in real time. Includes a detailed checklist for ⚗️DistillED+ members. newsletter.jamieleeclark.com/p/checking-for…

Zach Groshell Did rehearsal as part of a PD session with teachers on routines this week. Teachers scripted a routine for their classroom. When we started rehearsal, it was interesting to note that they wanted to tell the partner teacher about the script vs actually practice the script.


I woke up still buzzing from yesterday’s researchED Canada conference and my head is still trying to process all of the information I learned (felt a bit of cognitive overload so will review my notes and quiz myself today😉) Here are 5 of my main takeaways: ✅it’s important for



