The Knowledge Matters Podcast
The "Knowledge Matters Podcast", produced by the Knowledge Matters Campaign, is a thought-provoking and engaging exploration of the vital role of knowledge-building in education. Each season delves into the pressing issues, innovative ideas, and transformative solutions shaping the future of education, and is a must-listen for educators, administrators, parents, and anyone with an interest in the evolving landscape of learning.
Episodes
14 episodes
“It was like fireworks, right?!” | Know Better, Do Better
Explorers boldly venture into unfamiliar worlds, where confidence, curiosity, knowledge, and persistence are rewarded. When students approach texts like explorers, they bring these same qualities to the task—a mindset cognitive scientists call ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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25:37
“These texts were just oozing information” | Know Better, Do Better
Have you ever read something and then realized you didn’t totally understand it? That’s the hallmark of a challenging text, and it’s something students encounter all the time.In this episode,
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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27:07
“Learning to read is a social experience” | Know Better, Do Better
How do actual teachers and students “center the text” in reading classrooms? In this episode, David and Meredith Liben get specific with teachers and experts about how read alouds and clos...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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25:12
“The tail is wagging the dog” | Know Better, Do Better
When’s the last time you finished a chapter of a book and thought, “Hmmm, what was the main idea?” Competent readers don’t ask themselves this question. They’re too busy focusing on the text itself, not the component strategies that help us und...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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24:49
“Teachers are time poor” | Know Better, Do Better
Imagine reading a story about a trial, but not knowing the meaning of “indicted” or “exonerated.” Without a lot of determination and a dictionary, you’d be lost. The knowledge and vocabulary readers bring to a text substantially determ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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30:18
"The kids are not all right" | Know Better, Do Better
In today’s reading classrooms, too many kids are not alright. One of the biggest challenges is comprehension–or rather, its absence. Students don't understand what they read well enough to think deeply, connect what they are learning to the wid...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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28:24
Introducing Season 2: Know Better, Do Better: Comprehension
Season 2 of the Knowledge Matters Podcast is coming soon! Teachers and reading experts David and Meredith Liben host “Know Better, Do Better: Comprehension,” a six-part po...
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Season 2
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3:52
“Think what a better society we’ll have" | Reading Comprehension Revisited
American education has a number of serious problems – and our failure to start building kids' knowledge early is a fundamental one. By now you know that reading comprehension is complicated and as you’ll hear, so is the explanation for what has...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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36:38
“Everything was in silos” | Reading Comprehension Revisited
So far in "The Knowledge Matters Podcast: Reading Comprehension Revisited", we've heard from classroom teachers about their experiences making the shift from the standard approach to r...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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29:25
“Now they had something to write about” | Reading Comprehension Revisited
In the last episode of "The Knowledge Matters Podcast: Reading Comprehension Revisited", you heard from three teachers – Abby, Deloris, and Kyair – who talked about their experiences u...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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25:08
“That cloud looks like an anvil” | Reading Comprehension Revisited
In Episode 3 of "The Knowledge Matters Podcast: Reading Comprehension Revisited" you’ll hear from three teachers who’ve experienced the before and after of the shift to using a knowled...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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31:33
“Kids were bored to death” | Reading Comprehension Revisited
Welcome to the inaugural episode of the six-part Knowledge Matters Podcast series, "Reading Comprehension Revisited," where education writer and host,
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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25:32
“A simple way of looking at a complex problem” | Reading Comprehension Revisited
In the second episode of "The Knowledge Matters Podcast: Reading Comprehension Revisited", host Natalie Wexler dives into persistent misconceptions about reading comprehension that hav...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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27:40
Introducing the Knowledge Matters Podcast: Reading Comprehension Revisited
Coming soon: "Reading Comprehension Revisited," the inaugural series from the Knowledge Matters Podcast. Hosted by Natalie Wexler, education journalist and author of “The Knowledge Gap”, this series explores one of the most pressin...
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Season 1
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Episode 0
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4:24