The Road to Reading Podcast

In this episode, Dr. Kripa Sundar shares why concept maps can help students learn and retrieve. She shares how they can be used in both primary and intermediate grades and how teachers can use them to both build and assess learning in the classroom.
Show Notes:
Expertise-Reversal Effect
The Learning Scientists
Smart Teaching: Stronger Learning
Concept Mapping: A Powerful Tool for Learning by Dr. Kripa Sundar
Concept Maps: Reading Rockets
How to Start Concept Mapping-Reading Rockets
Show Notes:
Road to Reading Webpage
SoR Resource Page
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In this episode, Caitlin Lucas, a kindergarten teacher and Goyen Fellow, will share how she began implementing retrieval practices in her kindergarten classroom. She will explain the small changes or tweaks she made that had huge pay-offs.

Show Notes:
Brain Dumps by Dr. Pooja Argwal
Concept Mapping
Make it Stick
The Learning Scientist Podcast

Show Notes:
Road to Reading Webpage
SoR Resource Page
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In this episode, Katie Baker, a 7th-8th grade Texas and United States history teacher, shares how to focus our energy on effective retrieval strategies we can manage. She also explains that she was spinning from all the available resources and pulled back to focus on what she could accomplish in her classroom, and build from there.
Show Notes:
Powerful Teaching by Pooja Argwal and Patrice Bain
Examples from Katie’s Classroom:
Literacy Grid Template
Literacy Grid Example
Power Ticket Example
Kate Jones Retrieval Practice
5-12-13 Dylan Kane’s Substack
Voices from the Field Substack
The Knowledge Exchange Laura Stam’s Substack
Distilled by Jamie Clark
Gist Statements by Sara Quinn
Science of Reading Classroom Substack
Teachers Teaching Teacher Nights hosted by Science of Classroom and What I Should Have Learned in College Facebook Group
Mini Whiteboards by Ben Cooper
Make it Stick
Step Lab documentary

Show Notes:
Road to Reading Webpage
SoR Resource Page
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In this episode, Amber Haven will share the many ways she incorporates cognitive science principles into her instruction. Amber is a 5th-8th-grade STEM teacher. She will also focus on how she weaves retrieval practice into her day. Amber was featured in both Powerful Teaching and Powerful Classrooms, and you can find her presenting at major conferences like Research Ed.
Show Notes:
Resource on executive functions by Dr. Adele Diamond
Amber Haven-video examples and more
Powerful Teaching
Powerful Classrooms
Learning Scientist Podcast
Do I Have Your Attention by Blake Harvard
Just Tell Them by Zach Groshell
Executive Functions for Every Classroom K-3 by Mitch Weathers and Dr. Sarah Oberle
Executive Functions for Every Classroom 3-12 by Mitch Weathers
Knowledge for Teachers podcast with Katie Jones on R
Show Notes:
Road to Reading Webpage
SoR Resource Page
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In this episode, 4th-grade teacher Lauren Proffitt shares how she has implemented retrieval practices in her classroom.
Show Notes:
Powerful Classrooms by Patrice Bain
One Pagers by Jamie Clark
Brain dump strategy
Smarter Teaching, Stronger Learning by Pooja Argawal

Show Notes:
Road to Reading Webpage
SoR Resource Page
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Season 3-episodes