I had the pleasure of presenting at Amplify’s “Science of Comprehension Symposium”  on Friday. My topic was the often overlooked role of fluency as a bridge to comprehension.  I showed some videos and I wanted to post them here with a few notes. First, this beautiful clip of Gabby Woolf reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case…

  Ijeoma Duru’s visual guidance addresses the Transient Information Effect.   It’s no secret that students in the U.S. are falling behind in mathematics. Students are not only performing worse on national assessments like NAEP, they’re also falling behind the rest of the world on international assessments like the Program for International Assessment (PISA) as well…

  On February 10 and 11 we’ll be in Houston for something new and exciting–our first math-specific teaching workshop: Checking for Understanding in Math. We’ll discuss topics we’d cover in a typical CFU workshop–gathering data, perceiving and responding to errors–but look at them all through a math lens: What and how do we use and adapt…