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S5E33: Sean Morrisey on word mapping, vocabulary routines, and durable word knowledge

Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect. I’m your host, Zach Groshell. In this episode, I’m joined by Sean Morrisey, creator of the Word Mapping Project, for a conversation about how students learn words—not just as spellings to memorize or definitions to recite, but as connected units of sound, spelling, and meaning. Sean spent eight years as…

July 5, 2026 0Comments

Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching

Dr. Zach Groshell's book reaffirms the enduring importance of effective explanations at a time when "teacher talk" is often undervalued. Drawing on the science of learning, he explores essential techniques for showing, telling, demonstrating, modeling, and presenting so that even the most complex concepts become accessible to all learners. Engage with the art and science…

June 4, 2026 0Comments

S5E28: AJ Pettway on “student-centered learning,” instructional coaching, and school leadership

Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect. I’m your host, Zach Groshell, and today we are talking about teaching, coaching, and the strange language of modern education. One phrase that comes up constantly in education is “student-centered learning.” It gets used so often, and so vaguely, that it’s started to mean almost everything and almost nothing at…

May 16, 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

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

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S5E18: Glenn Whitman and Ian Kelleher on bridging learning science and classroom reality

Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect. I’m your host, Dr. Zach Groshell. In this episode, I sit down with Ian Kelleher and Glenn Whitman of the Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning (CTTL). We began with the origin story of CTTL — how they set out to bridge mind, brain, and education science with real classroom…

February 22, 2026 0Comments

S5E15: Barbara Oakley on constructivism vs. learning science

In this episode, I sit down with Barbara Oakley—engineer, bestselling author, and one of the most influential voices in the science of learning—to talk about why so much instruction still misses the mark, what “good teaching” looks like when you take cognition seriously, and what’s at stake if we keep defaulting to methods that feel…

February 1, 2026 0Comments

Science of learning jargon and element interactivity

A possible barrier to the science of learning movement is that there are potentially a lot of research terms and definitions that need to be learned in order to communicate clearly with one another. On the one hand, the pursuit of a shared language among educators is worthwhile. If when you say productive struggle, I…

November 16, 2025 0Comments