Zach’s podcast is the perfect balance of fascinating insights and companionable presentation. He has opened my eyes to so much of the Science of Learning with brilliant researchers sharing their work in-person. His Direct Instruction foray was mind-blowing and opened up huge areas of interest for me. My biggest problem is keeping up with the life-changing insights - I almost always want to buy a book after listening to him and his guests and they never fail to disappoint. If you are a teacher or school leader looking to level up your practice you couldn’t start in a better place.

I’ve just listened to the ‘science of math’ episodes, so perhaps other topics are different, but they exemplify the problems in education in that they have ‘experts’ far removed from the classroom saying a lot of words while saying absolutely nothing at all. There are no concrete examples on how to apply any research to real kids or classrooms, and even the ‘research’ discussed is spoken of only in vague, broad terms. You’ll leave the episode knowing less than you did going in.

This is what I listen to on the way to work. Friendly discussion about important issues in education.

Fun to read the article in advance and then listen in on what they have to say about it

Great to hear teachers respectfully debating philosophy and pedagogical methods.