S3E19: Marcy Stein and Bernadette Kelly on Direct Instruction Mathematics

Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect, I am your host, Dr. Zach Groshell. Today I am excited to be bringing you the first of two DI podcast episodes that I will be releasing this weekend ahead of the Progressively Incorrect Season 3 finale with Paul Kirschner. My guests are DI mathematics experts Marcy Stein and Bernadette … Continue reading S3E19: Marcy Stein and Bernadette Kelly on Direct Instruction Mathematics

S3E18: Meg Lee and Jim Heal on Evidence-Informed Practice at Scale

Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect, I am your host, Dr. Zach Groshell. Today I am thrilled to be speaking with Meg Lee and Jim Heal, two educators at the cutting-edge of evidence-based education. They're going to be talking to us about the work they're doing to scale the science of learning up and across this … Continue reading S3E18: Meg Lee and Jim Heal on Evidence-Informed Practice at Scale

S3E17: Scott Hill on Evidence-Informed School Leadership

Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect, I am your host, Dr. Zach Groshell. Today I am very excited to be speaking with Scott Hill, the Superintendent of Evergreen School Division in Manitoba, Canada. We will be talking about evidence-informed school leadership, including the shift that Evergreen has made towards a science of reading based curriculum, and … Continue reading S3E17: Scott Hill on Evidence-Informed School Leadership

S3E16: Haili Hughes on Tools and Structures for Effective Coaching

Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect, I am your host, Dr. Zach Groshell. Today I am very excited to be speaking with Haili Hughes as part of my ongoing inquiry into instructional coaching approaches. If you’re a leader or instructional coach yourself, be sure to check out previous instructional coaching episodes of Progressively Incorrect, such as the … Continue reading S3E16: Haili Hughes on Tools and Structures for Effective Coaching

Progressively Incorrect Comes To researchED Greenwich!

Exciting news! Join me, Dr. Zach Groshell, for a live recording of my podcast, Progressively Incorrect.  Panelists and authors Dr. Pedro de Bruyckere, Tom Sherrington, and Patrice Bain will discuss their work in helping teachers use the science of learning to inform their practice. https://educationrickshaw.com/category/progressively-incorrect/feed/

Questioning Beliefs about Instructional Coaching

In a previous post, I talked about 10 Popular Yet Questionable Instructional Coaching Dogmas. If you go to that post, you can listen to me talk about them on Teachers Talk Radio. Right around that time, I took to Twitter to ask educators what they thought about each of the dogmas, and lots of people … Continue reading Questioning Beliefs about Instructional Coaching

Inquiry based teaching and direct instruction with Chris Jordan

I was recently invited onto the Leading, Language, and Literature Podcast, hosted by @chrisjordanhk. Click on this link to listen in, or wherever you get your podcasts: https://www.leadinglanguageandliteraturepodcast.com/episodes/zach-groshell-inquiry-based-teaching-and-direct-instruction-seattle https://open.spotify.com/episode/19YnEIKpqvksIg5sMh0vnL?si=YMHzmdqtQwGPGyZZdyKyrA

Progressively Incorrect Featuring Gene Tavernetti Hosted by Zach Groshell

S3E5: Gene Tavernetti on Making Instructional Coaching Work

Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect. My name is Dr. Zach Groshell and, in this episode, we're going to be talking with one of my mentors of instructional coaching, Gene Tavernetti. Gene is the author of two John Catt Educational books, Teach Fast: Focused Adaptable Structured Teaching, and Maximizing the Impact of Coaching Cycles. He is … Continue reading S3E5: Gene Tavernetti on Making Instructional Coaching Work

Teaching with Direct Instruction: What’s with the Scripts?

I recently started teaching with two Direct Instruction programs. The first is Corrective Math, which I am using to teach basic fractions to a group of five middle school students. The second is Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, which I am using to teach beginning reading skills to my 4 year … Continue reading Teaching with Direct Instruction: What’s with the Scripts?

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S3E3: Craig Barton and Ollie Lovell on Tools and Tips for Teachers

Today I have the great pleasure of bringing you a very special episode featuring two of my podcasting rivals, Craig Barton and Ollie Lovell. This episode is brought to you by John Catt Educational, which publishes some of the absolute best books in education. In addition to publishing Craig’s How I Wish I’d Taught Maths, … Continue reading S3E3: Craig Barton and Ollie Lovell on Tools and Tips for Teachers