How Using a Knowledge-Based Curriculum & Cognitive Science Increases Reading Success with Author Natalie Wexler

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In this episode, I focus on curriculum as a variable for student success with education writer and author Natalie Wexler. She discusses the importance of using a knowledge-based curriculum in schools and explains how cognitive science plays a vital role in how we teach it.
This is important because the American nation's report card (NAEP) showed that 60 percent of high-school graduates were unprepared for postsecondary training or schooling and that racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps persist despite large-scale federal, state, and local reform initiatives aimed to improve student performance.
However, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy reported how studies identifying comprehensive, content-rich curriculum as a critical factor in student academic success was the common feature of academically high-performing countries as measured by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).
This podcast discuss what content-rich, knowledge-based curriculum is available to our schools now.
So here is the call to action: Make curriculum a top priority. Follow the research, use what cognitive scientists are telling us, and look at what is successful around the world. Use a content-rich, knowledge-based curriculum to give students the best chance at learning to read and to ultimately have a better future.
You can find out more by going to https://nataliewexler.com. Natalie gives information about her books The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix It (2019), and The Writing Revolution: Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades (2017). Sign up for her newsletter Minding the Gap to stay up to date with education and cognitive science!
To find more on knowledge-based curriculums visit https://knowledgematterscampaign.org/.
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America's Embarrassing Reading Crisis: What we learned from COVID, A guide to help educational leaders, teachers, and parents change the game, is available on Amazon, Kindle, and Audible, and iTunes.
My Weekly Writing Journal: 15 Weeks of Writing for Primary Grades on Amazon.
World of Words: A Middle School Writing Notebook Using...

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1. How Using a Knowledge-Based Curriculum & Cognitive Science Increases Reading Success with Author Natalie Wexler (00:00:00)

2. Cause and remedy of broken system (00:03:47)

3. knowledge-based curriculum explained (00:07:46)

4. importance of writing (00:14:46)

5. Science of Learning and Reading (00:19:14)

6. Cognitive Science Strategies for Teachers (00:22:55)

7. Curriculum for Schools (00:27:48)