Thinker, Doer, Learner, Leader
Watertown, NY
Joined July 2018
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Students’ instructional time is not ours to waste 💪 🚀
“Cut the fluff and teach the stuff!”
Anita archer takes the stage amd steals the show @researchEDCan
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Dr. Anita Archer continues to share the message that instruction, evidence and teacher knowledge are the key components to student success. As her Archerism goes, “Cut the fluff, and teach the stuff.” Wonderful Saturday spent in Toronto at @researchEDCan
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Educational leadership conferences are largely a scam focused on vague platitudes and inspirational mumbo jumbo, when the average principal believes in a long list of bad ideas that include emphasizing anything but the instruction that will get kids to learn the material.
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PISA 2025 offers telling tale about what really constitutes a good education system — EducationHQ educationhq.com/news/pisa-20…
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"I don't know anyone who's wise who doesn't read a lot. But that's not enough: You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things." — Charlie Munger
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You can only usefully contribute to collaborative project work, and therefore develop that skill, when everyone involved has an appropriate base level of knowledge. Otherwise it’s the blind leading the blind. Time students have in front of an expert teacher is highly valuable.
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New from me!
Explicit instruction works. Education Schools Just Won’t Admit It.
@rpondiscio @AEIeducation
aei.org/research-products/re…
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“The tragedy of Project Follow Through is that nobody ever did follow through. The results were ignored by an educational establishment ideologically committed to the approaches the study had refuted, and a generation of American teachers was trained—as I was—to treat explicit instruction as something to avoid.” via @MrZachG aei.org/research-products/re…
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Creativity isn't the opposite of memorization. It's the reward for having a well-stocked knowledge base. You can't cook with ingredients you don't have. You can't think with knowledge you don't have.
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Disappointing comment. You are playing down knowledge. Conceptual understanding, critical thinking, creativity, and problem solving are just pop slogans without knowledge underpinning them.
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“For problems to be solved, the thinker needs adequate information from the environment, room in working memory, and the required facts and procedures in long-term memory.”
I’m not sure I’ve ever read a single sentence that better summarizes my teaching philosophy than this one from @DTWillingham in Why Don’t Students Like School?
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How do students learn words?
In the penultimate episode of this season, @smorrisey joins me to discuss the Word Mapping Project, vocabulary routines, morphology, retrieval practice, and durable word knowledge.
Listen here: educationrickshaw.com/2026/0…
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1/2 🎯“We’re not an evidence-based profession traditionally, we’re more of an ideology-based, philosophy-based profession & that works to some degree, but it’s not working for most of our kids” Gaffney said. “So we need to move away from that towards the evidence”
nysfocus.com/2026/06/25/new-…
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Budgets and calendars don’t lie. If the priority is literacy but the master schedule, the coaching assignments, student support, and the spending look identical to three years ago, the priority is rhetorical. Focusing resources on the most important measure of success matters.
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Consistency does not mean robotic teaching. It means students do not have to win the teacher lottery. A schoolwide literacy commitment should be visible from classroom to classroom. The goal is not sameness for adults; the goal is reliability for students
