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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”.

So excited to listen to this one!!!

*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…

Anything but boring. themeasuredmom.com/anything-but-b… themeasuredmom.com/anything-but-b…

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…

I think we’ve totally missed the mark with the idea of “teaching the standards”. The standards are not a checklist— they are the end goal for the school year. There’s a lot of explicit instruction & purposeful practice that must take place before we can measure success!

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

Ever wondered why some teachers prefer not to be coached? Ever wondered why some teachers find coaching extremely helpful?

🧵Part II: How to optimize intrinsic load Pre-teaching, segmentation, and sequencing are classic, well-known teaching strategies, not new or novel. What’s powerful is how CLT explains why they work. Knowing why a method works is just as important as knowing the method itself.

When we understand the cognitive science behind our methods, we make better instructional decisions, ones that actually support learning. There’s no shortage of tools in a teacher’s toolbox. The real question is: Which tool? When? And why?

🎯 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.

Wyoming or Bust! What an honor to be returning to present at the Wyoming Embracing Literacy Conference!!!

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

I’ve long said that teachers should rely more on whole class feedback compared to individual feedback. Aka “batch feedback”, you circulate during work, you pull out what 80-100% needs to be working on, then pause and have a class discussion followed by students acting upon it.

Peps and I catch up about life, Evidence Snacks, and that Great Teaching documentary that took education by storm. educationrickshaw.com/2025/06/08/s4e…

Peps And the Great Teaching Unpacked documentary steplab.co/watch

Laura lists several things an instructional coach can do to make coaching helpful to teachers. Good advice for coaches and administrators. share.transistor.fm/s/8388a47a