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💚 Teaching One-Pagers Volume 2 is out TODAY—exactly one year after the first. Book 2 has been another labour of love, distilling edu-research and important ideas into practical, visual summaries for busy teachers. Huge thanks to everyone who’s supported my work—you are the driving force behind this series! 📘📗
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The Cognitive Load Theory ⚗️DistillED Series so far, with each idea broken down into the What, Why and How for busy teachers. Every edition ends with a 5-step process for putting it into practice. This FREE one-page guide captures the lot.
🧠 1. Cognitive Load Theory Unpacked
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🧩 2. Element Interactivity
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👀 3. The Split-Attention Effect
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✂️ 4. The Redundancy Effect (out next week)
⏳ 5. Transient Information (coming soon)
🔄 6. The Expertise Reversal Effect (coming soon)
Subscribe to ⚗️DistillED for FREE evidence-informed PD delivered every week.
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@HughesHaili session on "Lethal Mutations" in education with @XpatEducator is very much needed. Many think that teachers shouldn't really know principles, just strategies. But that’s one big mishap that leads to gradual lethal mutation and that's only one of many phases a mutation becomes lethal, starting from the original research all the way to the daily classroom.
This is where education needs to learn much from health care implementation science. Health care uses methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings clinical guidelines, and evidence-based interventions into routine health care practice.
In healthcare, if a surgeon or nurse incorrectly modifies a clinical protocol, it can be fatal for the patient. In education, if a teacher distorts an evidence-based pedagogical strategy (e.g., turning "retrieval practice" into a repetitive, distracting 5-question quiz every single day), it makes the teaching method ineffective, a lethal mutation.
Healthcare developed one method that directly solves this "Context Tailoring via Active Ingredients Execution". It relies on a clinical tool called :The Intervention Interface Matrix". Education needs to develop its own robust implementation methods.
A model in health care called "SMILe Integrated Care Model" is used to manage the care of stem cell transplant patients. And that's how healthcare protects its interventions.
For example, when introducing a new school program, you do not force teachers to follow a rigid script. Instead, like the SMILe model, you explicitly show them:
"You must do X (the active ingredient), but you are entirely free to change Y (the platform, the tone, or the timing) to fit your specific classroom."
(And explain the principles behind the constants amd permissible variations).
📌 Delighted to have contributed to the Victorian Teaching & Learning Model (VTLM 2.0) Explicit Teaching Guides, published by the @VicGovDE These evidence-informed resources support schools and teachers with strategies for:
📍 Focusing the learning
💬 Explicit explanation and modelling
🏗️ Scaffolding practice
📡 Monitoring progress
Each guide features actionable ideas to strengthen instruction. Download and share them with your team:
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🗣️ ORACY! This edition, I break down oracy: what it actually is, why it matters, and exactly how to build purposeful talk into your classroom. Plus, it includes a FREE planning tool.
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The Cognitive Load Theory ⚗️DistillED Series so far, with each idea broken down into the What, Why and How for busy teachers. Every edition ends with a 5-step process for putting it into practice. This FREE one-page guide captures the lot.
🧠 1. Cognitive Load Theory Unpacked
newsletter.jamieleeclark.com…
🧩 2. Element Interactivity
newsletter.jamieleeclark.com…
👀 3. The Split-Attention Effect
newsletter.jamieleeclark.com…
✂️ 4. The Redundancy Effect (out next week)
⏳ 5. Transient Information (coming soon)
🔄 6. The Expertise Reversal Effect (coming soon)
Subscribe to ⚗️DistillED for FREE evidence-informed PD delivered every week.
⏰ QUICK! This FREE webinar is starting in about 30 minutes…
The excellent @HughesHaili will be unpacking lethal mutations. It’s not too late to join us!
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Tomorrow!! Don’t miss out!
📣 FREE WEBINAR! I'm hosting another free online DistillED webinar with special guest @HughesHaili — Lethal Mutations: When Good Ideas Lose Their Purpose.
WHAT'S IT ABOUT?
As evidence-informed practices spread through schools, they can become simplified, standardised or distorted until the original purpose is lost. In this 45-minute session, Haili will explore:
→ What lethal mutations are, and why they happen
→ Common mutations of evidence-informed practices
→ How to adapt principles intelligently without losing their purpose
📘 EXCLUSIVE HANDBOOK! Everyone who stays until the end will receive the brand-new DistillED Lethal Mutations Handbook, a practical short guide to recognising common mutations and keeping evidence-informed practice connected to its original purpose.
WHEN IS IT?
📅 Saturday 24 October
🇦🇺 5:00–6:00 pm AWST (Perth) / 8:00–9:00 pm AEDT (Sydney/Melbourne)
🇬🇧 10:00–11:00 am BST
👉 REGISTER: luma.com/aott82if
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📣 NEW… The Split-Attention Effect! A diagram with its labels in a separate key forces students to search back and forth — adding unnecessary load to working memory. Five practical ways to reduce split attention in your teaching, plus a free one-page guide.
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📣 NEW… The Split-Attention Effect! A diagram with its labels in a separate key forces students to search back and forth — adding unnecessary load to working memory. Five practical ways to reduce split attention in your teaching, plus a free one-page guide.
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Listen to our episode on Attention with @AmberBHaven and Jamie Clark @XpatEducator! And check out their recommended resources in the show notes.
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SECURE YOUR SPOT! If you’re a teacher implementing evidence-informed practices, a PD leader, or a school leader, don’t miss this FREE 45-minute webinar with @HughesHaili this Saturday.
Haili will unpack LETHAL MUTATIONS: what they are, why evidence-informed practices become distorted as they spread, and, importantly, what teachers and school leaders can do to prevent them.
Everyone who attends will receive the new Lethal Mutations handbook… A free guide to use for school PD.
REGISTER before it’s too late:
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TAP THE LINK! ☝️
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Really enjoyed my chat with these folks across the pond. Check out their excellent podcast 👇👇👇
Listen to our episode on Attention with @AmberBHaven and Jamie Clark @XpatEducator! And check out their recommended resources in the show notes.
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🎥 The DistillED Explainer series is complete. Five short videos, each under 3 minutes, unpacking how students learn and remember, and what that means for the classroom. Here they are in order 👇
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⚗️ This week's DistillED, part two of the Cognitive Load Theory series, looks at element interactivity. Drawing on John Sweller's work, it explains why a short task with tightly connected parts can ask more of working memory than a long list of separate facts.
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⚗️ This week's DistillED, part two of the Cognitive Load Theory series, looks at element interactivity. Drawing on John Sweller's work, it explains why a short task with tightly connected parts can ask more of working memory than a long list of separate facts.
newsletter.jamieleeclark.com…
🗣️ ORACY! This edition, I break down oracy: what it actually is, why it matters, and exactly how to build purposeful talk into your classroom. Plus, it includes a FREE planning tool.
newsletter.jamieleeclark.com…












