Dave McAlinden is an instructional designer at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies. In this episode, we start by clarifying a question many educators have: What does an instructional designer actually do? If you’ve ever taken an online course, you’ve already experienced the impact of instructional design—whether you realized it or not.

You can connect with Dave on LinkedIn: (2) Dave McAlinden | LinkedIn
Feel free to reach out—Dave enjoys engaging with educators and talking through ideas about teaching, learning, and instructional design.

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The Bell Ringer, a weekly newsletter providing news, tools, and resources on the science of learning, written by education reporter Holly Korbey. Subscribe here. 

Lauren Brown and I discuss how social studies and history instruction shifts and deepens as students grow, mature, and develop a greater capacity for understanding over time.

Lauren hosts podcasts on teaching US History. Folks can also find the registration link on my Substack, on the Teacher Resources page. or here: Teaching U.S. History with Meaning

There will be 2 left when this podcast airs:

Thurs. Jan 22 - Using Themes & Stories to Make History Come Alive

Thurs. Jan 29 - Short, Powerful Writing Activities to Reinforce Learning

Both are at 6:00 CT/7:00 ET

Also find Lauren at:

https://laurenbrownoned.substack.com

For more, folks can check Lauren’s writing for MiddleWeb: https://www.middleweb.com/tag/lauren-brown/

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Dr. Carl Hendrick is known throughout the world for his expertise in the science of learning. In addition to publishing numerous articles, he has co-authored two books How Learning Happens and How Teaching Happens in which he shares the most impactful research on this topic.

In this episode he shares what he believes is the most important information that all teachers should know about how students learn but is still not being taught in many schools of education. He also has some advice for teachers about some things they can safely stop doing.

Links:
X: @‌C_Hendrick

BlueSky: @‌carlhendrick.substack.com

LinkedIn: Carl Hendrick
Weekly Science of Learning newsletter at The Learning Dispatch
How Teaching and Learning Happens e-learning course can be found here. 

Joe Finch is a 5th grade teacher in Kelseyville, California. Joe is committed to the teaching profession and truly desires to improve his craft. In this episode he describes how he discovered the science of learning in his search to improve and how he developed his own professional development program.

X:  Joe Finch, M.S. Ed. (@mrjfinch) / X

Substack: Joe Finch | Substack

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The Bell Ringer, a weekly newsletter providing news, tools, and resources on the science of learning, written by education reporter Holly Korbey. Subscribe here. 

In this episode Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath and I discuss his new book; Digital Delusion and the intersection of what science knows about how we learn and the impacts of technology on that learning.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-cooney-horvath-phd-med-730704b2/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jared.cooney.horvath/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/jaredcooney

Website: https://www.lmeglobal.net

Book: The Digital Delusion

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The Bell Ringer, a weekly newsletter providing news, tools, and resources on the science of learning, written by education reporter Holly Korbey. Subscribe here. 

Karen Vaites is well-known as a literacy advocate. In this episode we discuss the Southern Surge, the Mississippi Miracle, and the Louisiana and Tennessee increases (sorry no alliterative descriptors) in literacy scores.

Episode Links:
X: Karen Vaites (@karenvaites) / X

Karen Vaites | Substack

Curriculum Insight Project | Substack

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The Bell Ringer, a weekly newsletter providing news, tools, and resources on the science of learning, written by education reporter Holly Korbey. Subscribe here. 

Two teachers, one middle school and one elementary, share how they have made writing instruction a priority. Josie Wozniak and Kimberly Voge are avid users and proponents of EduProtocols to support their writing instruction. In this episode they share how students are able to write more. But more importantly, how the students take more responsibility for improving their writing.

Twitter: @‌ms_woz @kvoge71

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-voge-662b905b/

Facebook: (5) Facebook

(5) EduProtocols Community | Facebook

Instagram: @‌jwoz_teaches @‌hermajestyvoge

Bluesky: @‌jwoz-teaches.bsky.social

Tik Tok: @‌jwoz_teaches @techsassy

Deploying EduProtocols

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The process of deciding which High Quality Instructional Materials to adopt is not as straight forward as it might seem. There are good options, and there are good teachers with varying opinions. 

Kelly Harkins, Supervisor of Elementary English Language Arts, describes her district’s two different processes for selecting two different ELA curricula.

Facebook: The Reading League Delaware

Website: the reading league Delaware

Reading League Delaware Memberships 2025

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The Bell Ringer, a weekly newsletter providing news, tools, and resources on the science of learning, written by education reporter Holly Korbey. Subscribe here. 

In this episode with Doug Lemov we discuss how teachers can support reading fluency and literacy beyond the early grades. Doug also describes his work with professional sports teams helping the coaches be more effective teachers. And much, much more!

Books:

The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading

The Coach's Guide to Teaching

Teach Like a Champion 3.0

X: Doug Lemov (@doug_lemov) / X

LinkedIn: Doug Lemov | LinkedIn

Website:  http://teachlikeachampion.org

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The Bell Ringer, a weekly newsletter providing news, tools, and resources on the science of learning, written by education reporter Holly Korbey. Subscribe here. 

Enjoy another installment of Thinking Out Loud with Zach Groshell. In this episode, Dr. Groshell and I discuss how to begin when providing support to teachers. Both Zach and Gene currently work in schools supporting teachers in their quest to be their best for students.

Dr. Zach Groshell is the host of the popular podcast Progressively Incorrect and the author of:

Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching

Dr. Gene Tavernetti is the author of:

Maximizing the Impact of Coaching Cycles

Teach Fast: Focused Adaptable Structured Teaching

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The Bell Ringer, a weekly newsletter providing news, tools, and resources on the science of learning, written by education reporter Holly Korbey. Subscribe here.