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Season Two, Episode 10: Professor Anna Stokke on Effective and Engaging Math(s) Instruction (opens the original)
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Summary In this special in-person episode of Chalk Dust, recorded at researchEd Melbourne at Haileybury , Rebecca Birch and Nathaniel Swain are joined by Professor Anna Stokke, mathematician, educator and host of the Chalk & Talk podcast. Together they analyse classroom footage from Australian mathematics lessons, exploring how carefully sequenced instruction, explicit teaching and strong classroom routines support successful mathematics learning. Across examples including number bonds, subtract
Season Two, Episode 9: Every Class is a Reading Class (opens the original)
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Summary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Nathaniel Swain are joined by Andrew McCrorey, an experienced educator and instructional leader at Monterey Secondary College in Victoria. Drawing on classroom footage from a secondary setting serving a highly disadvantaged community, Andrew demonstrates how explicit instruction, trauma-informed positive education and high expectations can work together rather than compete with one another. The discussion explores entry routines, co-regula
Season Two, Episode 8: Getting Hands-On (opens the original)
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Summary In this episode of Chalk Dust , Rebecca Birch and Nathaniel Swain are joined by STEM educator Amber Haven to explore what happens when explicit instruction meets genuinely engaging hands-on learning. Using footage from Amber’s middle-school STEM classroom, the discussion follows a lesson on neutral buoyancy, revealing how carefully designed routines allow practical investigations to remain cognitively demanding rather than descending into chaos. Amber demonstrates how retrieval practice,
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