The Learning Scientists Podcast

Episode 98: Executive Functioning in the Classroom with Sarah Oberle and Mitch Weathers Learning Scientists This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 98, Cindy interviews Sarah Oberle and Mitch Weathers, experts in executive functioning. They are authors of a new book: Executive Functions for Every K-3 Classroom: Promoting Self-Regulation for a Strong Start. During the conversation, Cindy refers to a model of working memory which is described here.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 97, Althea reads her blog post Thinking is Hard.

In Episode 95, Cindy talks with Myriam Da Silva about believing in yourself to support learning.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 95, Cindy talks with Emily Kircher-Morris, M.A., M.Ed., LPC, a licensed professional counselor specializing in supporting neurodivergent kids and adults (and their families). Emily hosts the popular Neurodiversity Podcast and had authored multiple books, including Neurodiversity-Affirming Schools: Transforming Practices So All Students Feel Accepted and Supported.Cindy and Emily discuss the definition of neurodiversity, the complex legal process of getting accommodations for students, and tips and tricks for educators to recognize and meet the needs of neurodivergent students. In the episode, Emily references several research articles and resources, listed below.Rinn, A. (2021). Social, emotional, and psychosocial development of gifted and talented individuals. Routledge.Butera, C., Ring, P., Sideris, J., Jayashankar, A., Kilroy, E., Harrison, L., ... & Aziz‐Zadeh, L. (2020). Impact of sensory processing on school performance outcomes in high functioning individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Mind, Brain, and Education, 14(3), 243-254.SPACE Training Podcast Episode

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 94, Althea reads her blog post Retrieval Practice in the Health Professions.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 93, Carolina chats with Dr Chiara Horlin, a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow, about wellbeing in educators and specifically about a phenomenon called ‘compassion fatigue’. Compassion fatigue is the psychological, emotional, and physical strain of consistently emphasizing with people in distress when supporting them. A usual scenario could be educators providing pastoral care to their students and engaging in constant empathic engagement. In this episode, we discuss how compassion fatigue manifests in different educational sectors, explore the risk factors, the personal and professional impact, and highlight ways to manage compassion fatigue. Chiara has conducted studies on this topic and you can read them here.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 92, Althea talks with Leonardo Feletto. Leo has a PhD in Molecular Biology and is now a science teacher. But most important for this particular episode, Leo is a science communicator.Below is a link to the peer-reviewed paper about engaging students in science communication (and, the full PDF is freely accessible!):Kiessling, T., Christina, C., Katrin, K., Enzingmüller, C., Kremer, K., Katrin, K., Dittmann, S., Schulenburg, H., & Parchmann, I (2025). How can we enable school students to learn and participate in science engagement initiatives? Roles and tasks of enablers. Journal of Science Communication, 24(4), N02. https://doi.org/10.22323/148020250716165543

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 91, Cindy talks with Sean McCormick, founder and Executive Director at EF Specialists. They discuss the research on executive functioning training, especially for neurodiverse students, and the degree to which it transfers to everyday life. In the episode, they mention several research studies, including:Diamond, A. (2013). Executive functions. Annual Review of Psychology, 64(1), 135-168. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-113011-143750 Blair, C., & Razza, R. P. (2007). Relating effortful control, executive function, and false belief understanding to emerging math and literacy ability in kindergarten. Child Development, 78(2), 647-663. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01019.x Melby-Lervåg, M., & Hulme, C. (2013). Is working memory training effective? A meta-analytic review. Developmental Psychology, 49(2), 270. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028228 For free resources, please visit efspecialists.com.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 90, Megan reads her blog post Dual Coding: Can There be too Much of a Good Thing?

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:For some of our podcast episodes, we are going to read blog posts, audiobook style. This allows listeners to access the written material from the blog in audio form, which we imagine may help some who don’t have much time for reading (but DO have time to listen in the car). It also allows us to bring some of our most interesting, important, and/or popular posts back into the spotlight.Today’s episode is our first of this type! In Episode 89, Carolina reads her blog post Who should Create Study Plans?

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 88, Megan, Cindy, Carolina, and Althea talk about the new direction of the Learning Scientists Podcast, and about multitasking!We started this podcast a number of years ago, and over time the podcast has morphed and changed. We want to be really intentional about the podcast. To that end, we got together and talked about what we love about the podcast, things we want to do better, and some new ways to spread the science of learning to move people.We’re going to have three types of podcast episodes:Conversations with students and/or educators about their experiences with the science of learning. With these episodes, we’re really making space for our listeners to hear from others about their experiences while teaching and learning. Of course, in our conversations, we’ll still be talking about the science behind the concepts we’re talking about. These episodes can allow listeners to gain new perspectives, and can even serve as concrete examples of how the science of learning can be applied in various settings.Bite-size research episodes. In these episodes, we’ll focus on peer-reviewed research. One or a few of us will talk through a research paper to bring the science to you, wherever you listen. These episodes may also include guests to talk about their peer-reviewed research on learning, or the research surrounding their area of expertise.Audio-book versions of our blog posts. We know that some people prefer (or must, because of time constraints) listen rather than read. We have hundreds of great blog posts, and we want to bring that content to even more people. So, for some episodes, we will read our blog to create another format for that information to be shared.If you’re interested in being a guest on our podcast, you can send us a pitch! Please fill out this form. If you’re an educator or student wanting to talk about your personal experiences with the science of learning, we especially want to encourage you to fill it out. Let us know that you’re a student/educator, and how you use the science of learning in your own teaching/learning.We also talked about multitasking on the podcast, because we know that so many people multitask while listening (in the car, in the shower, while doing dishes, etc.). We mentioned the Whodunnit video on the episode. You can watch the <a href="https://youtu.be/LRFMuGBP15U?

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 87, Cindy chats with Mitch Weathers, a veteran teacher and Founder and CEO of Organized Binder. Mitch discusses what exactly is meant by executive functioning, his own learning struggles as a student, and his many projects aimed at improving students’ executive functioning skills including his recently released book, Executive Functions for Every Classroom: Creating Safe and Equitable Learning Environments.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In episode 86, Cindy talks with Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, neuroscientist, educator, and author of Stop Talking, Start Influencing: 12 Insights from Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick. In this episode, Jared reviews some of the history of technological advancements, how technology has impacted learning, and shares some of his ideas for how artificial intelligence may impact both learning and society moving forward. Jared is open to hearing your thoughts about the episode, which you can share by clicking here.This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at a researchED event in Wilmington, DE (October, 2024).

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 85, Megan talks with Natalia Kucirkova, PhD, a Professor of Early Childhood and Development at the University of Stavanger in Norway and Professor of Reading and Children’s Development at The Open University, UK. Natalia leads a network of learning scientists, WiKIT, who support diverse EdTech organizations to be more evidence-based and aligned with the science of learning. She is author of the open-access book, How and Why to Read and Create Children’s Digital Books: A Guide for Primary Practitioners and The Future of the Self: understanding Personalization in Childhood and Beyond. Read more about Natalia and the impact of EdTech here.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 84, Carolina talks to Dominic Wyse and Charlotte Hacking; the authors of the brand-new book “The Balancing Act: An Evidence-Based Approach to Teaching Phonics, Reading and Writing”. Together they explore the chapters of the book that takes a research-informed approach to teaching pupils how to read and write. The book also features scaffolding for teaching practice including complete lesson plans that can be used in the classroom right away! They also discuss what parents can do to support reading and writing skills in their children. The episode concludes with a range of practical tips.Further resources for this episode:Get the book: “The Balancing Act: An Evidence-Based Approach to Teaching Phonics, Reading and Writing” by Dominic Wyse and Charlotte Hacking.Book press release: “Rigid Approach to Teaching Phonics is ‘Joyless’ and is Failing Children, Experts Warn”Open access paper: “Decoding, reading and writing: the double helix theory of teaching” by Dominic Wyse and Charlotte HackingThe Conversation: “Isolated phonics lessons aren’t working: Here’s a better way to teach young children to read and write” by Dominic WyseThe Guardian view on English lessons: Make classrooms more creative again (Editorial)   Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE): The books section on this website comes with concrete book suggestions to use in primary classrooms.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 83, Althea interviews Jamila Sams, CEO and founder of We Do It For the Culture (TM), a culturally responsive social emotional learning curriculum rooted in Hip-Hop culture for middle and high school students. Jamila discusses the five components of social-emotional learning, hip-hop, and shares examples of how the curriculum has connected with students. To learn more go to https://wedoit4theculture.com/

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 81, Megan, Cindy, Carolina, and Althea walk through their Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP) Annual Conference on Teaching (ACT) talk! The episode was recorded in October 2023 when all four Learning Scientists were together in Portland, Oregon for the conference. After they gave their formal talk, they recorded their talk in one of their hotel rooms to reach more people.Related to this talk, they recently published a paper in Educational Psychology Review paper on science communication about retrieval practice. The paper is geared toward researchers, calling for research on effective science communication efforts.Sumeracki, M. A., Nebel, C. L., Kaminske, A. N., & Kuepper-Tetzel, C. E. (2024). Turning roadblocks into speed bumps: A call for implementation reform in science communication about retrieval practice. Educational Psychology Review, 36, 22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09854-5

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 80, Cindy interviews Kareem Farah, CEO and co-founder of the Modern Classrooms Project.To access their free course go to: http://learn.modernclassrooms.org/.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 79, Althea interviews Spencer Russell, an award-winning teacher and educator about early childhood literacy. You can learn more about Spencer's approach to early childhood literacy at https://www.toddlersread.com/. Follow him on Instagram (@toddlerscanread) for tips and videos!

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 78, Megan, Cindy, Carolina, and Althea talk through the resources available on learningscientists.org.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 77, Megan interviews Maxim Vickerie and Adam Smith from EF+Math, a program supported by the nonprofit AERDF. Megan recently learned about a report that came from this group called Strengthening Executive function Skills to improve Mathematics learning: Evidence of Promise from EF+Math’s inclusive R&D approach. EF+ Math aims to double the number of black and Latinx students and students experiencing poverty in grades 3-8 who are proficient in math by building innovative math learning systems that strengthen executive function skills. To meet this aim, they fund and support teams of educators, researchers, and product developers. The teams collaborate through an Inclusive Research and Development approach (R&D), and work to co-create ways to improve math learning through increasing executive functioning skills.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 76, Cindy interviews Sarah Oberle (@S_Oberle) about the intersection between research and education. As both a researcher and educator, Sarah has a unique perspective on both the benefits and challenges of classroom research and science communication. Sarah also discussed the ResearchED organization and plans for upcoming conferences in the US.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 75, Megan, Cindy, Carolina, and Althea talk about their new book, Ace That Test: A Student’s Guide to Learning Better. They provide an overview of the book, provide some examples, and discuss the writing process. Ace That Test: A Student’s Guide to Learning Better is out July 19th! Preorders are available now with a 20% off code if you access through our website.Pre-order through the link on our website and use the code provided there to get 20% off.You can read about the book and access Chapter 1 for free here

Content warning: Please be advised that in this episode we discuss the topic of suicide in depth with a lived experience story. Matt reads a part of his book where a mother describes her personal experience with this topic.This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 74, Carolina interviews Matt Pinkett – the author of Boys Don’t Try? – to talk about his new book Boys Do Cry: Improving Boys’ Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools which comes out this month. Matt explains his motivation for writing the book and why it is important to learn about mental health in boys specifically. He reads a moving excerpt from his book and details some of the research behind the topics he selected to dive into. The interview concludes with practical recommendations from the book for teachers and for parents. Prepare for a thought-provoking and eye-opening episode.Further resources for this episode:Boys Do Cry: Improving Boys’ Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools on Amazon.Boys Don’t Try Rethinking Masculinity in Schools on Amazon.Boys will be boys? How schools can be guilty of gender bias by Joanna Moorhead for The Guardian.Suicide and self-harm helplines around the world:Suicide Hotlines and Prevention Resources Around the World

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 73 Althea interview Mark Schneider, Director of the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES). Mark discusses some of the challenges facing educators today and how IES can facilitate education research. In the episode, he talked about a new grant project aimed at using artificial intelligence to assist speech language pathologists working in schools. You can read more about the research here.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 72, Althea interviews Jerry Apps and Natasha Kassulke, authors of Planting an Idea: A Guidebook to Critical and Creative Thinking about Environmental Problems. Coming out just in time for Earth Day, Planting an Idea is designed to help readers young and old examine and develop opinions on a variety of environmental issues. You can purchase it at Fulcrum Publishing and bookshop.org. You can also visit jerryapps.com to learn more about Jerry’s other works.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 71, Althea interviews John Hattie, author of Visible Learning. They talk about his newest book, Visible Learning: The Sequel.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 70, Cindy interviews John Dunlosky from Kent State University and Regan Gurung from Oregon State University. John and Regan recently published a book entitled Study Like A Champ: The Psychology-Based Guide to Grade A Study Habits. In this episode John and Regan discuss a little bit about their research and how they practice what they preach in the classroom.In the episode, Cindy mentions the following:GUEST BLOG: The 5-sided flashcardPodcast Episode 38: A (pseudo) Randomized Control Experiment about Teaching Effective Learning StrategiesIn addition, this blog, Learning With Flashcards, was written while this episode was in production but is highly relevant to the flashcard discussion!

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 69, Cindy interviews Garth Neufeld from Cascadia College and Eric Landrum from Boise State University. Eric and Garth co-host the Psych Sessions Podcast. On their podcast, they interview psychology teachers from all levels of education and have conversations about teaching.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. In today's episode, we feature one of our patrons, David Handel, MD. David is the CEO and co-founder of iDoRecall.com. iDoRecall is a unique spaced repetition flashcard app that enables you to create flashcards linked to the relevant location in your learning materials, where you just learned something, and you want to ensure that you’ll remember it. Recently iDoRecall embarked on an ambitious project that led to our becoming an OpenStax EdTech Ally Partner. We hired subject-matter expert educators to create comprehensive sets of linked flashcards for most of the OpenStax textbooks. We have made these flashcard sets available for 100% free use by you, your students, and your schools. We are also offering educators, just like you, the opportunity to obtain a free iDoRecall educator’s license that will enable you to monitor your students’ engagement and metrics as they use the OpenStax flashcards to learn and remember what they learn Please fill out this form if you are interested in this free license (that we usually sell). For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 68, Carolina interviews Dr Zayba Ghazali-Mohammed (@Zayba_G) and Dr Arun Verma (@drarunverma) to learn more about the concept of intersectionality. Zayba is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology at the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow and founder of the Race and Equality Network (RaEN). Arun is a leader in advising on implementing intersectionality, equity, and diversity in various contexts. In this episode, they share why it is important to raise awareness for intersectionality in any context, and specifically in education. They discuss challenges and opportunities of acknowledging and even embracing intersectionality in the classroom – and share many tips for teachers and students on how to proactively create “intersectional educational spaces” that provide room for diversity and learning. The first step is recognizing that intersectionality exists and educating oneself about what it is. This episode is a good starting point. Enjoy!Further resources for this episode:The Race and Equality Network (RaEN) on Twitter and <a href

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 67, Megan interviews Eva Dundas from Branching Minds (@BranchingMinds). Visit Branching Minds www.branchingminds.com, for free resources for teachers and leaders. Information about the December 2022 Summit can be found here. You can also join the MTSS Facebook that Eva mentions to connect with other educators.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 66, Cindy interviews Rebecca Rolland, a speech pathologist, Harvard Lecturer, author of The Art of Talking with Children, and mom of two! Listen to learn about talking with your own children, as well as the children in your classroom.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 65, Althea interviews Lyndsey-Lee Dunwoody (@LyndseyDunwoody) of 1851 Trust (@1851Trust) about their new platform Protect Our Future.New research amongst 11-16 year-olds commissioned by 1851 Trust and environmental charity Hubbub reveals that more than half of children (51%) are worried about what the planet will be like in the future. However, the research also found that almost a third (31%) of 11-16 year-olds say they are unclear on what measures they can take to be more environmentally friendly, which is acting as a barrier to them taking action. Only a quarter feel climate change is something they can fix, while 14% said they don't feel like their actions will make a difference.  Teachers are feeling similarly at a loss as to what they can do to support learning in this area, with 70% saying they do not feel equipped to teach about climate change effectively.Climate and sustainability education are soon to become part of the school curriculum in the UK, yet young people and teachers alike are feeling ill-equipped and powerless to play their part in the vital action needed to tackle the climate emergency. In response to this, the education charity 1851 Trust has declared its ambition to help 1 million young people take action to protect nature, people and the planet through its new Protect Our Future platform. Listen to the episode to learn more.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 64, Carolina interviews Emma Noble who is a final year Psychology student at the University of Glasgow. Emma gives an overview of her final year dissertation project where she explored the lived experience of Higher Education students with a formal dyslexia diagnosis. She goes into detail what the ‘dyslexia label’ means to them, how it is linked to their identity as a person, and what it would mean to lose the label. Emma provides tips for teachers and students, too. Enjoy.Further resources mentioned in this episode:Dyslexia Scotland Dyslexia Scotland EventsReferences mentioned in this episode:Barnard-Brak, L., Schmidt, M., Wei, T., Hodges, T., & Baylor, E. R. L. (2014). Providing postsecondary transition services to youth with disabilities: Results of a pilot program. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 26(2), 135-144.  Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101. https://doi.org/10.1191/1478088706qp063oa    Loveland-Armour, L. A. (2018). Recently identified university students navigate dyslexia. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 10(2), 170–181. https://doi.org/10.1108/JARHE-04-2017-0033 Pitt, S., & Soni, A. (2017). Students’ experiences of academic success with dyslexia: A call for alternative intervention. Support for Learning, 32(4), 387-405. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9604.12182  Valeras, A. B. (2010). We don’t have a box: Understanding hidden disability identity utilizing narrative research methodology. Disability Studies Quarterly, 30(3/4). doi: 10.18061/dsq.v30i3/4.1267

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 63, Megan chats with the hosts of the Lab Out Loud Podcast, Brian Bartel and Dale Basler. Last month (February 2022) we talked on the Lab Out Loud Podcast about research methods and the application of cognition to education. We recommend that you listen to that episode first, and you can listen to the episode here. In this episode, we continue our conversation and dig into all kinds of topics, like teaching the scientific method, teaching science, technology, online learning, and even how to figure out who stole the pens when Megan was a PhD student!About the Lab Out Loud Podcast Co-Hosts:Brian Bartel taught biology and chemistry at Appleton West High School from 1999-2013. In 2013, Brian left the classroom to pursue a new position as Technology Integration Specialist for a portion of the Appleton Area School District’s K-6 schools.Dale Basler was a teacher of science for the Appleton Area School District from 1998 to 2012 where he primarily taught physics and physical science. In the fall of 2012, Dale stepped away from teaching science to take on a new position as Technology Integration Specialist for a portion of the Appleton Area School District’s K-6 schools.Read more about them here.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 62, Cindy interviews Dr. Laura Nevins (Linkedin) and Dr. Frank Patranella (Linkedin, @FACP0401) on making professional development workshops effective. This one is a bit longer than our typical interviews, but it is packed with exciting and useful information about motivation, social connection, reflection, building habits, and just generally making information sticky!

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 61, Althea interviews Amber Birsen, @memorablemaths. Amber Birsen lives and works in England in the UK. She has been a qualified teacher now for around 7 years. She is currently a Year 2 class teacher and the subject lead for mathematics at St Michael's CofE Primary School in Bournemouth, Dorset. Amber recently made a contribution to a report by Oxford University Press called, ‘Addressing the Deepening Digital Divide’. Much of what she discusses she learned and has taken from the report as well as her experiences as a teacher over the last two years.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 60, Cindy interviews Mary Chappell (@LiteracyMary), a Department of Education Special Education Curriculum Specialist. With 25 years of education experience teaching elementary and special education, she is now supporting special education teachers, especially related to literacy. She found herself needing to motivate teachers to utilize a mandated program, and wanting to support them in doing so. Therefore, she turned to the literature.Mary gave a presentation that provides an overview of her findings, recurring themes, key takeaways, actionable steps, and her references. You can view the slides here.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In this bite-size research episode, Megan discusses research on delayed vs. immediate feedback in the classroom. Like with many effective learning strategies, what students think is helping them learn is not what actually helps them learn. In two experiments presented by Mullet and colleagues (2014), University engineering students received relatively immediate feedback or delayed feedback on homework assignments. Students reported that they liked immediate feedback better and that it helped them learn more. In reality, the delayed feedback led to better performance on their course exams.References: Mullet, H. G., Butler, A. C., Verdin, B., von Borries, R., & Marsh, E. J. (2014). Delaying feedback promotes transfer of knowledge despite student preferences to receive feedback immediately. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 3, 222-229. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2014.05.001

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 57, Cindy interviews Kathryn Desmarais, a Senior Director of Global Education Solutions at Johnson & Johnson. (You can check out her LinkedIn profile here.) In Kathryn’s line of work, she is less concerned with what an individual can look up or figure out. Her reps need to be confident and know a great deal on the spot in high-pressure situations. So, she has been implementing strategies from the science of learning into her training!

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 56, Cindy interviews Andrew Watson (@AndrewWatsonTTB), author of The Goldilocks Map and founder of Translate the Brain. If you are interested in ordering a copy of The Goldilocks Map, you can enter code SCIENTISTS25 here to receive 25% off your order.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In episode 55, Carolina interviews two students who have been heavily involved in inclusivity in education, Ally Lloyd and Anna Gallagher. Together, they co-lead The Luna Project. Their goal is to increase awareness and support of young people with chronic illnesses disabilities and long-term health conditions.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. In today's episode, we feature one of our patrons, Bob Reuter.Show Notes: In Episode 54, Megan interviews Josh Ling and Jesse Mao, the co-founders of Podsie. Podsie is a nonprofit organization, and its mission is to empower teachers and improve student learning by providing free access to evidence-based learning techniques. Check out podsie.org for ac

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes: In Episode 53, Althea interviews applied linguist and author of Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics, Alex Poole. You can pick up a copy of his book on Amazon, through the publisher, or wherever you buy your books! <hr /

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 52, Carolina interviews two of her students, Ellie Brownlie and Alicja Turek, about their experiences with online learning since the global COVID-19 pandemic changed our way of teaching. The students share some positive outcomes and some things they wish were done differently or happened more.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes: In Episode 51, Cindy interviews memory expert Boris Konrad (@borisnkonrad). Boris is an eight-time world memory champion, he has four entries in the Guinness Book of World Records, and he is the current president of MemoryXL. Cindy and Boris discuss memory techniques. Importantly, Boris discusses differences between memory techniques and learning techniques, the underlying neuroscience, and why they are both important for students.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In today’s episode, Althea covers a paper about metacognitive monitoring and differences between adolescents (ages 11-12) and traditional university-aged adults (ages 18-25) when using different learning strategies. Students learned word pairs (moon - galaxy). Then, they either just restudied them, engaged in elaborative encoding by coming up with a third word that connected the two words (like space), or practiced retrieval (given the word moon, and asked to retrieve galaxy). During learning, the students made judgments of learning (or JOLs) about how well they thought they would do on an upcoming test. The researchers tested the students’ memories to see how well they learned the pairs. <img data-stretch="false" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1599504125914-EESV0SKEG4DXQSPOA4I8/JOL+Accuracy+from+Hughes+et+Al.JPG" data-image-dimensions="576x363" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" alt="" data-load="false" elementtiming="system-image-block" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1599504125914-EESV0SKEG4DXQSPOA4I8/JOL+Accuracy+from+Hughes+et+Al.JPG?format=1000w" width="576" height="363" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 100vw" onload="this.classList.add("loaded")" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1599504125914-EESV0SKEG4DXQSPOA4I8/JOL+Accuracy+from+Hughes+et+Al.JPG?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1599504125914-EESV0SKEG4DXQSPOA4I8/JOL+Accuracy+from+Hughes+et+Al.JPG?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1599504125914-EESV0SKEG4DXQSPOA4I8/JOL+Accuracy+from+Hughes+et+Al.JPG?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1599504125914-EESV0SKEG4DXQSPOA4I8/JOL+Accuracy+from+Hughes+et+Al.JPG?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1599504125914-EESV0SKEG4DXQSPOA4I8/JOL+Accuracy+from+Hughes+et+Al.JPG?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1599504125914-EESV0SKEG4DXQSPOA4I8/JOL+Accuracy+from+Hughes+et+Al.JPG?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. In today’s episode, we feature Peter Horneffer. Peter has been heavily involved in making medical education accessible, and one way has been through lecturio.com. You can learn more about his efforts by watching his TEDx talk.Show Notes:In today’s episode, Megan and Althea cover a paper that tests learning styles and dual coding theories within one experiment. The paper was written by Cuevas and Dawson (2018) and you can see the paper here. <img data-stretch="false" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1591968698830-LA9PFUCZ80065DIO1V8N/Picture1.png" data-image-dimensions="2500x1725" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" alt="" data-load="false" elementtiming="system-image-block" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1591968698830-LA9PFUCZ80065DIO1V8N/Picture1.png?format=1000w" width="2500" height="1725" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 100vw" onload="this.classList.add("loaded")" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1591968698830-LA9PFUCZ80065DIO1V8N/Picture1.png?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1591968698830-LA9PFUCZ80065DIO1V8N/Picture1.png?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1591968698830-LA9PFUCZ80065DIO1V8N/Picture1.png?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1591968698830-LA9PFUCZ80065DIO1V8N/Picture1.png?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1591968698830-LA9PFUCZ80065DIO1V8N/Picture1.png?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1591968698830-LA9PFUCZ80065DIO1V8N/Picture1.png?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1591968698830-LA9PFUCZ80065DIO1V8N/Picture1.png?format=2500w 2500w" loading="lazy" decoding="