068 Learning Styles & Learning To Learn
The theories about teaching students according to learning styles have been debunked in research, but the idea has been difficult to interrupt in practice. We read a new paper focused on helping teach...
12 Loka 202244min
067 Teacher Shortage & Homework Inequality
Staffing challenges in districts across the United States are fueling a narrative of a nationwide teacher shortage. However, Paul Bruno joins us to talk about his recent work showing there may not be ...
12 Syys 202244min
066 Season 5 Year in Review
This month we reflect on our year of reading scholarship and growing as humans. First we’ll return to the segments we felt had the greatest impact on our practice and our thinking from the research we...
12 Elo 202244min
065 COVID Consequences & Visual Display
As the summer of 2022 wanes, we will spend some time looking at the bigger picture of how education has been affected by COVID-19 these past few years. We read reviews of the current research on COVID...
12 Heinä 202243min
064 Evaluative Mindsets & Sociopolitical Consciousness
Why are people so influenced by false information, even when they know better? We are joined by researcher Nikita Antonia Salovich to discuss her recent work on evaluative mindsets, and how we can app...
12 Kesä 202244min
063 Writing Achievement & Cultural Socialization
When professional development programs conflict with overemphasis on test scores, teachers face a precarious tension between their growth and the ever present threat of dubious evaluations. We read ab...
12 Touko 202244min
062 Cognitive Effort & Professional Learning
The routines, rewards, and incentives we use in the classroom can help students build productive habits they use throughout their lives. We read about a series of studies that found how rewarding cogn...
12 Huhti 202244min
061 Errorful Generation & Local Poems
Retrieval practice has a ton of research support, but we’re still figuring out the when and how of its effective use in instruction. We read a series of studies comparing the impacts of post-testing a...
12 Maalis 202244min
