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Jon Regino retweeted
@researchEDCan Guess what we are going to livestream our keynote sessions from #rEDTO2026
Tune in Saturday Oct. 24, 2026 using this link.
Share widely!
@rastokke @NickGibbUK @KJWinEducation @Ready4rigor @Educhatter @researchED1
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Jon Regino retweeted
ResearchED Toronto Agenda!
Here's the agenda and an interactive guide to #rEDTO2026
@researchEDCan @tombennett71 @researchED1
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Jon Regino retweeted
This is actually quite simple to explain from a DI perspective.
Jon Regino retweeted
Publishers should be required to publicly post a ten lesson with assessment sample from their program.
No log in required, and the user should be able to click a button for it to randomly generate, rather than them giving you their best unit.
Jon Regino retweeted
Best case scenario: Teacher a) knows the subject inside and out and b) is able to decompose, sequence, and assess it effectively. Note that a) being true does not necessarily imply that b) is not true.
There are plenty of teachers who have a high degree of math knowledge AND can teach it effectively. But there are many teachers who are assigned to teach math who do not feel comfortable with math and there are also teachers who know math well but don't know how to teach it well.
In the absence of not having a high degree of math knowledge, well-designed materials are a must. But they should be designed by someone who knows the math and understands how early concepts fit together with later concepts. That's one of the reasons JUMP Math is effective. The writing team consists of mathematicians.
Jon Regino retweeted
You can learn a great deal about how a subject is taught and organized by teaching with a well-designed program. However, in a truly cumulative and systematic program, it takes weeks to see what it’s doing and where it’s going. A single lesson does not reveal the design.
Jon Regino retweeted
This is really exciting!! Off-the-shelf math curriculums are often (usually) actively out of alignment with principles of cognitive science. It's hard to find a math curriculum that doesn't assume guided discovery as step one and that is serious about interleaved retrieval. Or frankly that isn't tech-for-tech's sake. Great news to see this project come to fruition!
Today, Modern Classrooms Project is announcing that we have raised $12 million to build a free Tier 1 math curriculum for middle and high school, grounded in cognitive science.
The more time I spend in math education, the more concerned I get. Outcomes have been falling for more than a decade, and the steepest declines are among the lowest-performing students.
Meanwhile, many of the leading cognitive scientists and learning scientists have been sounding the alarm that their research is not being applied at scale in math classrooms. We think they might be right.
So we are building a curriculum that treats cognitive science as its north star. We plan to launch middle school in summer 2027 and high school in summer 2028.
Three things to know about what we are building:
1. It will be free. All lessons and materials, teacher-facing and student-facing, will be publicly available online, printable, and modifiable.
2. It will be built with the researchers. In the coming weeks, we will announce a research advisory committee of leading learning scientists. We will work as hard as we can to make sure the structure, design, and underlying content align with what cognitive science tells us about how students, especially struggling learners, master math.
3. It will work with or without technology. Modern Classrooms Project has spent years at the intersection of technology and classroom instruction. This curriculum will have two clear implementation pathways. One that is completely paper-based, built around whole-group, teacher-facilitated instruction. The other will be designed to leverage technology to enable flexible pacing, mastery-based progressions, and increased 1-1 and small-group support from educators.
Perhaps most importantly, we want to understand what works. While we have conviction that following cognitive science is the right path, we are deeply committed to trying to move the field forward so that students can achieve their full potential in math, particularly students farthest from opportunity.
To learn more about what we are building and explore ways to get involved, go to modernclassrooms.org/curricu….
Jon Regino retweeted
ALMOST SOLD OUT! Less than 10 or so tickets left!!! Don't say we didn't say 🤪🙌
@researchEDCan Last of the tickets left now.
Who's coming?
@researchED1 @Educhatter @JimHewittOISE @KJWinEducation @Ready4rigor @NickGibbUK @rastokke @johnmighton
Jon Regino retweeted
Core materials for students and teachers will be free to print, free to modify, and aligned to standards. Teach it fully on paper or with technology used carefully. Want to get involved??
curriculum.modernclassrooms.…
Jon Regino retweeted
Every class period has the same research-informed shape: fluency, one new skill taught explicitly, guided and blocked practice, a quick skill check, then spaced practice that brings back skills from weeks earlier.
Jon Regino retweeted
Modern Classrooms Project has raised $12 million to build a completely free Tier 1 math curriculum grounded in cognitive science. Middle school launches in summer 2027, and high school follows in 2028.
Jon Regino retweeted
Today, Modern Classrooms Project is announcing that we have raised $12 million to build a free Tier 1 math curriculum for middle and high school, grounded in cognitive science.
The more time I spend in math education, the more concerned I get. Outcomes have been falling for more than a decade, and the steepest declines are among the lowest-performing students.
Meanwhile, many of the leading cognitive scientists and learning scientists have been sounding the alarm that their research is not being applied at scale in math classrooms. We think they might be right.
So we are building a curriculum that treats cognitive science as its north star. We plan to launch middle school in summer 2027 and high school in summer 2028.
Three things to know about what we are building:
1. It will be free. All lessons and materials, teacher-facing and student-facing, will be publicly available online, printable, and modifiable.
2. It will be built with the researchers. In the coming weeks, we will announce a research advisory committee of leading learning scientists. We will work as hard as we can to make sure the structure, design, and underlying content align with what cognitive science tells us about how students, especially struggling learners, master math.
3. It will work with or without technology. Modern Classrooms Project has spent years at the intersection of technology and classroom instruction. This curriculum will have two clear implementation pathways. One that is completely paper-based, built around whole-group, teacher-facilitated instruction. The other will be designed to leverage technology to enable flexible pacing, mastery-based progressions, and increased 1-1 and small-group support from educators.
Perhaps most importantly, we want to understand what works. While we have conviction that following cognitive science is the right path, we are deeply committed to trying to move the field forward so that students can achieve their full potential in math, particularly students farthest from opportunity.
To learn more about what we are building and explore ways to get involved, go to modernclassrooms.org/curricu….
Jon Regino retweeted
I'm honoured to join Amanda VanDerHeyden @amandavande1 for SpringMath Accelerate's free Science of Success Speaker Series on October 28!
Register here 👉 lnkd.in/e_tw8nY8
Jon Regino retweeted
How well did your initial teacher education prepare you for the classroom?
We're gathering experiences from teachers, school leaders and teacher educators around the world, and we'd love to hear yours.
Take the survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/BhKQ…
Please share widely!
@AcademicaUoAS
Jon Regino retweeted
Secure a spot before we sell out, which will happen very soon!
We are past the initial number imagined but we keep making room. Join us while spots last.
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🚨 While Canada's education scores have been declining for years, there is a movement to undo all the damage caused by fads and bad education policies. Every Education Minister in this country should be attending researchED Toronto in October. @nsachdeva2019 is bringing together world class presenters from around the world.
@researchEDCan @researchED1 @tombennett71
researched.org.uk/event/rese…
Jon Regino retweeted
🚨 While Canada's education scores have been declining for years, there is a movement to undo all the damage caused by fads and bad education policies. Every Education Minister in this country should be attending researchED Toronto in October. @nsachdeva2019 is bringing together world class presenters from around the world.
@researchEDCan @researchED1 @tombennett71
researched.org.uk/event/rese…
Jon Regino retweeted
⏰12.5 minute lesson.
🙋🏽♂️38 questions.
😮That’s an opportunity for the class to participate every 20 seconds.
Who said direct instruction is passive? #OperationEducation
It’s here! 200 teachers in the audience. A 12-minute live lesson. Listen to the recording + an in-depth analysis with me & @NeenaSharma555 on today’s ep of #OperationEducation
Jon Regino retweeted
If you are just hearing about Direct Instruction and Project Follow Through, I recommend this podcast by @MrZachG. It’s one of my favourite all-time podcasts and Zach knows this stuff inside and out.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcas…
Jon Regino retweeted
We don’t need another “Sold A Story” on math education, our @ehanford for the last many years has been Anna Stokke @rastokke, who systematically goes through the “real” literature and debunks what’s commonly taught to (and then practiced by) math teachers.
That said, I’m also very excited to listen to Sold A Story 2, which I’m sure will be fantastic, and I hope it will have a similar effect in math as in reading. Hopefully it’ll also bring more light to the great work of people like Anna. (Just a reminder: her last episode had two teachers who had to speak anonymously, for fear of retribution for publicly going against mandated bad teaching practices at their school. So if Hanford’s podcast does nothing else, hopefully in the future, such teachers will be comfortable showing their faces!)
🚨 New episode is live!
Did you miss the livestream? Listen to Montse Gomendio and I unpack the newly released PISA 2025 results.
What can we learn from the latest PISA data, and why are some education systems holding up better than others?
🎧 Watch or listen: youtu.be/edOap2-Ez7g
