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The instructional design behind DI’s approach to language comprehension

I recently watched a DI webinar titled Science of Reading: Explicit Fundamental Language Instruction to Improve Reading Comprehension, presented by Kurt Engelmann and the folks at NIFDI. The session illustrated how Direct Instruction builds language comprehension - the often-neglected half of the Simple View of Reading. I've written and podcasted plenty about DI's evidence base…

April 15, 2026 0Comments

Join me in helping Inwood Academy students attend ResearchED Colombia

I’m excited to be leading the Explicit Teaching Institute at Inwood Academy in New York City. Connected to that work is another opportunity that means a great deal to me. Inwood Academy, an inner city school that primarily serves Spanish-speaking students and families, is raising funds to help send its students to Colombia’s first ResearchED.…

March 30, 2026 0Comments

S5E23: Richard Wheadon on teaching learning habits and returning to the classroom

Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect, a show sponsored by John Catt from Hachette Learning and hosted by me, Dr. Zach Groshell. My guest today is Richard Wheadon, author of the forthcoming book Teaching Learning Habits – How to Develop Independent and Successful Learners, to be published with Routledge. He blogs at Everything Pedagogy and writes…

March 28, 2026 0Comments

S5E22: Adam Robbins on the challenge of improving teaching

Welcome to the Progressively Incorrect podcast. I'm Dr. Zach Groshell, and in this episode, I welcome Adam Robbins for a conversation about one of the biggest challenges in education: improving teaching. Together, we explore why teacher development is often so difficult and why schools need more than good intentions to make meaningful progress. This episode…

March 22, 2026 0Comments

S5E21: Inwood Academy Pioneers the Science of Learning

My name is Dr. Zach Groshell and welcome to my podcast! This season, I continue to explore the science of learning—especially what the work actually looks like when schools try to build their instructional models around it. We talk a lot about evidence-based practice in education, but far fewer conversations focus on how schools implement…

March 15, 2026 0Comments

The question is whether they learned

When I first learned of the "no excuses" charter school movement, often associated with the techniques of Teach Like a Champion, my gut said no. Snap snap. Give her some shine. Waiting on one. Waiting on none. Tracking me. 3, 2, 1, go. On the vintage YouTube videos of the time, it came across as…

March 9, 2026 0Comments

Christopher Such and Zach Groshell Part 2 Progressively Incorrect and Steplab

S5E20: Christopher Such on action steps for reading and the latest literacy debates

Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect, a show sponsored by John Catt from Hachette Learning and hosted by me, Dr. Zach Groshell. My guest today is Christopher Such, literacy expert, former primary teacher, and author of Primary Reading Simplified. Chris makes his epic return to the show to tackle several debates currently shaping reading instruction in…

March 9, 2026 0Comments

Leslie Laud and Zach Groshell Writing Instruction

S5E19: Leslie Laud on writing instruction and self-regulated strategy development

https://educationrickshaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/leslie-l-final-edit-1.mp3 Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect. I’m your host, Dr. Zach Groshell. This season, I’ve been diving deeply into writing instruction — what the research actually says, where classroom practice often drifts, and what it truly takes to help students become confident, capable writers. Writing is one of the most cognitively demanding things we…

March 1, 2026 0Comments