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"What I increasingly find is that there’s often a tacit agreement in classrooms: if the teacher agrees not to bother the students, they agree not to be difficult. "open.substack.com/pub/daviddidau…

This is more evidence to support the idea that schools should restrict/ ban smartphones. Smartphone bans in Dutch schools have improved learning, study finds in Netherlands theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

Choral Response and 'I Say You Say' bunsenblue.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/cho… masterpiece after masterpiece of curating teaching decision-making strategies from Pritesh Raichura

Here’s an example of something that’s not designed particularly well for learning. When the surface features of a task (e.g., colour-matching) are more salient than the deep structure (e.g., phoneme blending), learners may succeed at the task without actually engaging in the

How do students redraft their writing?, by Daisy Christodoulou substack.nomoremarking.com/p/how-do-stude…

Very interesting. “A consistent positive effect of [memorization] on achievement was found across our analyses of Swedish TIMSS data.” Also it would be fairly easy for tests like this to support much more robust analysis.

A single 10-minute retrieval practice activity significantly improved final exam performance. open.substack.com/pub/carlhendri…

Norms are powerful in school, we can nudge them by spotlighting desirable student behaviour. We can have an even greater impact by designing routines where students themselves are the amplifiers. All Hands Up snacks.pepsmccrea.com/p/all-hands-up…

Whenever progressive education fails—project-based learning, inquiry or discovery learning, etc—it’s always everyone else’s fault, never the shortcomings of progressivism And the Dalton Plan of the 1920s, a failed model you probably haven’t heard about, is a great example🧵

Dislexia sin confusiones: hacia una definición más clara y útil para el aula delaevidenciaalaula.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/dis…

What Happens When Students Get Feedback on Their Writing?, by Natalie Wexler open.substack.com/pub/nataliewex…

"Els gestors educatius semblen més interessats a camuflar la mediocritat que a fomentar altes expectatives, per por de crear greuges comparatius" L'article de Gregorio Luri ara.cat/129_531c5f

Less is More. More is Too Much. I was recently asked to consider one piece of advice I'd give to teachers. And, after thinking about it for a bit, I guess I'd suggest doing less, not more. More may be too much. theeffortfuleducator.com/2025/02/18/les…

If colleges of education must continue to exist, the least they could do is add a course on this topic using this resource by Carl Hendrick and Paul A. Kirschner. The information that aspiring teachers would gain in one semester focused on the research in this book would be

The Enduring Persistence of Neuromyths in Education open.substack.com/pub/carlhendri…

Replacing textbooks with Chromebooks was a mistake

Regardless of how much content is required to teach, start with the assumption that it’s better to teach it properly so that they learn it. Save quick exposure for low-mileage topics - teach to mastery when concepts span grade levels and disciplines.

What goes into designing Direct Instruction is often shortchanged by simplifications like, “lots of spaced practice” and “design with the end in mind.” It’s the strategic coordination of skills over multiple strands based on “Big Ideas” and the example selection that is 😘

Absolutely true.

Què és el que funciona millor per la majoria de necessitats educatives? Entorns estructurats i exigents. Ensenyament explícit. Repost: What approaches work best with children with special educational needs? open.substack.com/pub/daviddidau…