Teacher | Improving instruction in school systems worldwide | Progressively Incorrect 🎙️ | Chief Learning Scientist 🧠 | PhD, Author of Just Tell Them
Seattle and Austin, USA
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Teach your child math in 100 easy lessons is turned in to the publisher. Look out for it in 2027, the year of Direct Instruction.
How does DI fit into MTSS? Stephanie Stollar, Diane Kinder and Marcy Stein got into fidelity and implementation with me. Useful if Sold a Story 2 has your school rethinking tiers.
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Kurt Engelmann put the script debate simply: endorsing all scripts is like endorsing all plays. There's Shakespeare, and then there's the rest. The DI ones are field-tested and revised. Alisa Kerr and I get into this in Episode 16.
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Before Progressively Incorrect comes back, catch Doug Gray on why Alaska built its own MTSS conference. Sending one teacher to Seattle or Denver wasn't worth it, so they brought the experts to Anchorage. Fifteen years on, about 1,000 educators show up.
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"Make up your own prompt" splits a class into kids who already write well and kids who struggle. Jared Brewer on why a structured writing path keeps every writer supported.
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Heard about DI on Sold a Story 2 and wondering if the research holds up? Jean Stockard walked me through 50 years of evidence on Direct Instruction. Worth your time.
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From Kurt Engelmann:
One of the takeaways from Episode 5 of Sold a Story is that training and support make a difference in the success of a DI implementation. In this post, I share data tables from the meta-analysis by Jean Stockard and colleagues. buff.ly/mG2yiZy
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At NIFDI, we believe every student deserves effective instruction and educators deserve the training, coaching, and systems support to make it happen.
Are you interested in starting a DI implementation? Fill out our contact form to meet with our team: buff.ly/3OmILif
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💬 Richard Bebb on the impact of Direct Instruction:
“When you see the change it has on the kids, when they’ve never been able to read all their lives, and you see the results. It is just thrilling.”
🔗 Read the full McGraw Hill case study: buff.ly/7yz9ei3
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In this McGraw Hill case study, Richard Bebb, Leader of Direct Instruction and Academic Interventions, shares how implementing Corrective Reading helped students make significant gains in reading and experience success they once thought was out of reach.
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In Austin this week at Learning & the Brain, talking mastery learning and Direct Instruction. Great to see Just Tell Them on the book table, right next to Teach Fast.
Behavior and instruction aren't separate problems. Geoff Colvin explained how a well-designed lesson and a well-managed classroom go together. New to DI after Sold a Story 2? Try this one.
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Sean Morrisey (@smorrisey) has a simple rule for vocabulary. Don't ask the class what a word means and fish for answers. Kids hear wrong definitions. Tell them the meaning, give examples, and get them practicing. One of my favorite Progressively Incorrect episodes, back soon.
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If Sold a Story 2 sent you looking for the history, Project Follow Through is the place to begin. Linda Carnine, Susie Andrist and Jerry Silbert were on the ground for it and told me what they saw.
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From NIFDI President Kurt Engelmann:
In this Substack post, I discuss the significance of the Bereiter-Engelmann Preschool at the University of Illinois, which is the focus of the second episode of Season 2 of Sold a Story.
Read his Substack article here: buff.ly/jlSwrc0
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We interviewed teachers at a Direct Instruction school in Oregon. Here's what they told us about the most controversial aspect of DI — the scripts. youtube.com/watch?v=DQlqBTSM…
