A Day In Our Shoes

What is Explicit Instruction? What does it Look Like on an IEP? (examples)

You know that moment when you realize your kid has been “getting support” for months (or years), and still can’t decode a ...
A Day In Our Shoes

50 Practical Instructional Strategies for Specially Designed Instruction in IEPs (examples)

When parents first hear the phrase Specially Designed Instruction (SDI), it can feel overwhelming and abstract. You might ...
American Enterprise Institute

Cognitive Load Theory, Explicit Teaching, and Bringing Research into the Classroom (with Greg Ashman)

Many education researchers spend a lot of time studying how students learn, but if their findings don’t make their way into the classroom, they are only so useful. For example, researchers have known ...
JSTOR Daily

An Evaluation of an Explicit Read Aloud Intervention Taught in Whole-Classroom Formats In First Grade

AbstractThis study describes an evaluation of a read aloud intervention to improve comprehension and vocabulary of first-grade students. Twelve teachers were randomly assigned to an intervention or ...