What's next: Summer of Knowledge, Part 2
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Hope this finds you somewhere cool and watery. After a little time off, The Bell Ringer comes roaring back next week.
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New to The Bell Ringer? Get started with important reporting and resources on the science of learning with our “Interview with an Expert” video series:
Interview with Harnessing the Science of Learning’s Nathaniel Swain on using explicit instruction in math
Researcher and expert Amanda VanDerHeyden on how to help every student achieve mastery in math
Psychology teacher and Do I Have Your Attention? author Blake Harvard on how to use research on attention to improve student learning
The Knowledge Gap author Natalie Wexler on the blind spot in the science of learning
Literacy expert Karen Vaites on the elementary school ELA curricula that doesn’t include a single whole book
Beginning next week: The Summer of Knowledge, Part 2
Next week, we will pick back up with The Bell Ringer’s Summer of Knowledge series, focused on the evidence-based idea that helping students put knowledge into their long-term memories is key not only to reading comprehension, but problem-solving and deep thinking as well.
At the moment, there’s a lot of talk in education circles around knowledge-building as crucial to student success, but The Bell Ringer wanted to know—what does that look like in real classrooms? What do educators need to succeed at it? Are the popular High Quality Instructional Materials actually building knowledge for students? What does ‘knowledge building’ look like in subjects like math?
Catch up on what we’ve already covered, from how Ireland’s elementary school teachers build an enormous amount of knowledge in 13 subjects before they ever step in a classroom, to our book club sessions one and two, where we discuss the book Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revolution, and readers discuss how they are building student knowledge in their classrooms.
Upcoming July newsletters focus on how the idea of ‘building knowledge’ translates to math learning, with researcher Sarah Powell; how to make sure your lessons are aligned with the research every time, with Teach FAST author Gene Tavernetti; and a live Q&A with Paul Kirschner—date TBA, so stay tuned—author of recent book club book Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revolution. Readers will have the chance to ask him questions about the research, about the book and about building knowledge in general.
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