Better Teaching: Only Stuff That Works

From Six Teachers to a Movement: Building Professional Development That Lasts

About This Episode

Most professional development begins with enthusiasm and ends before it changes classroom practice. In this episode of Better Teaching: Only Stuff That Works, Gene Tavernetti talks with Suzannah Evans and Dr. Shane Saeed about the Science of Learning Collaborative in Colorado’s St. Vrain Valley School District.

What began in 2019 as a small book study nearly disappeared during COVID-19, shrinking to six committed educators. Instead of giving up, Suzannah and Shane built a voluntary, sustained model of professional learning that now connects more than 100 teachers across a large district. They explain how the collaborative creates practical learning, peer accountability, teacher leadership, and a network where educators can test ideas in classrooms and return to learn from one another.

The conversation is a useful reminder that lasting professional learning does not require a massive initiative. It can begin with a few people, a worthwhile question, a small pilot, and enough patience to let the work spread through trust and word of mouth.

What You’ll Learn

• Why one-and-done professional development rarely produces lasting change.
• How a six-person learning group grew into a district-wide collaborative.
• Why voluntary participation can create stronger motivation and accountability.
• How hybrid meetings, reflection, and classroom application support busy teachers.
• Ways to build teacher leadership and a cross-school community of practice.
• How to start small, choose an effective pilot group, and let results spread organically.

Chapters

• 00:00 — Welcome and introducing Suzannah Evans and Shane Saeed
• 02:37 — The Science of Learning Collaborative begins
• 06:24 — From a 2019 book study to six teachers during COVID
• 12:01 — Designing a flexible, sustained professional-learning model
• 15:47 — Peer learning, accountability, and teacher leadership
• 24:00 — Building momentum across a large district
• 36:00 — Voluntary participation and meaningful buy-in
• 46:17 — Scaling a grassroots writing initiative
• 50:12 — Start with a small pilot and let the work speak
• 54:15 — The origins and classroom logic of the FAST framework

Resources

• St. Vrain Valley Schools
• Vrain Waves: Necessary Condition — Learning Together
• Suzannah Evans on LinkedIn
• Suzannah Evans on X
• Dr. Shane Saeed on X
• Teach FAST / TESS Consulting Group

About the Guests

Suzannah Evans is an instructional coordinator at St. Vrain Valley School District and a facilitator of the district’s Science of Learning Collaborative. Dr. Shane Saeed is an elementary ELA curriculum coordinator, author, speaker, and co-host of the Vrain Waves podcast. Together, they support educators in turning evidence-informed ideas into practical classroom improvement.

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Summary

What are executive functions, and how can teachers support them without adding another program to the school day? Mitch Weathers returns to Better Teaching to discuss the cognitive skills behind organization, task initiation, self-regulation, planning, and follow-through.

Mitch explains why clarity, modeling, predictable routines, and a well-designed classroom environment protect students' cognitive capacity. He also makes the case for analog tools in a digital world and shares how the Organized Binder approach helps students—and teachers—build practical organizational habits.

Chapters

• 0:00 — Welcome and meeting Mitch Weathers
• 2:15 — What executive functions are and why they matter in classrooms
• 8:30 — Core executive functions: working memory, inhibition, and flexibility
• 15:30 — Higher-order executive functions and age-appropriate expectations
• 24:00 — Clarity, modeling, and predictable classroom routines
• 33:00 — The Organized Binder approach and building student independence
• 42:00 — Analog tools, technology, and protecting students' cognitive work
• 50:00 — Connecting executive-function supports with effective lesson structure
• 53:20 — Closing thoughts and practical next steps

Show Notes

• Mitch Weathers is the author of Executive Functions for Every Classroom and co-author of Executive Functions for Every K–3 Classroom.
• Connect with Mitch on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.
• Mitch and Gene discuss the Organized Binder approach, which supports organization, task initiation, self-regulation, and follow-through.
• The conversation explores how teachers can make expectations clear, model routines, reduce unnecessary cognitive load, and create predictable environments that help students develop executive-function skills.
• Mitch explains why analog tools can complement technology by giving students opportunities to practice the skills they will need in other settings.

Better Teaching: Only Stuff That Works is hosted by Gene Tavernetti. Find more about Gene's work at https://tesscg.com/.

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Summary

What happens when some of the best teachers in a district are invited to present at conferences across the country, but are never asked to share what they know in their own schools? In this solo episode, Gene Tavernetti reflects on the way classroom teachers with deep expertise in evidence-informed instruction can be sought out by educators elsewhere while their knowledge is overlooked or discouraged at home.

Gene explores Tall Poppy Syndrome, the social cost of standing out, and why sending teachers to conferences with instructions to bring learning back is unlikely to produce meaningful schoolwide change without leadership and a culture that values internal expertise. He revisits the Starfish Story with a less comforting conclusion: if conference learning changes only one classroom, perhaps all we can say is, “It made a difference to that teacher.”

Chapters

• 0:00 — The expertise schools overlook
• 2:00 — Tall Poppy Syndrome and the cost of standing out
• 5:00 — Why conference learning does not automatically spread
• 8:00 — The Starfish Story and a challenge for leaders

Show Notes

• Gene Tavernetti reflects on teachers whose expertise is valued everywhere except at home.
• The episode asks school and district leaders whether they know where the expertise is in their own organization.
• A strong internal culture gives teachers meaningful opportunities to share and use what they know.

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Summary

In this from-the-archives episode, Bart Hoffman interviews Dr. Frank Rodriguez and Gene Tavernetti about their book Digital Captives: Helping Schools Strike a Balance Between Humans and Hardware. They trace how technology moved from a tool intended to augment instruction into something that can displace attention, relationships, reading, and meaningful learning.

Frank and Gene discuss what they have observed in schools and after-school programs, why the pandemic accelerated existing problems, and how educators can respond without swinging from unquestioned technology adoption to an equally unhelpful rejection of digital tools. Their central message is practical: schools need intentional systems that put humans, learning, and healthy technology habits back at the center.

Chapters

• 0:00 — Introduction: from digital natives to digital captives
• 2:17 — What changed for students and schools
• 6:00 — When technology stopped augmenting instruction
• 10:27 — The problem of too much digital material
• 14:09 — Finding balance between humans and hardware
• 18:00 — Adult modeling, attention, and schoolwide systems
• 23:18 — Practical ways schools can reset technology habits
• 26:00 — Screen inferiority and reading comprehension
• 31:30 — Rebuilding conversation, focus, and human connection
• 38:00 — Leading change without creating another pendulum swing
• 47:56 — The book, the authors, and where to learn more
• 60:30 — Closing thoughts

Show Notes

• Dr. Frank Rodriguez — Educator and leader of after-school and community learning programs whose work with students and staff helped prompt the research behind Digital Captives.
• Gene Tavernetti — Host of Better Teaching and co-author of Digital Captives.
• Bart Hoffman — Education leader and friend of the podcast who conducts the interview.
• Digital Captives: Helping Schools Strike a Balance Between Humans and Hardware is written by Frank Rodriguez, Donna Smith, and Gene Tavernetti.
• Learn more about the authors and the book through Schools Next.

This is a refreshed from-the-archives presentation of Better Teaching episode 90.

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Summary
Gene Tavernetti examines the familiar explanation that school improvement is difficult because “it’s just the culture.” Drawing on work with schools across the United States and Canada, he argues that culture is not fixed atmosphere—it is the residue of daily decisions, habits, and follow-through.
The practical path to change is to change what people do. Gene lays out a focused approach: choose one or two specific instructional practices, support them through consistent coaching, use common look-fors in leadership walkthroughs, and protect the commitments through follow-through. The goal is a shift from isolated classrooms to a shared identity around how “we teach here.”
Chapters
0:00 — Welcome to Better Teaching
0:37 — Why “it’s just the culture” becomes an excuse
2:13 — Culture is built from daily decisions
3:08 — Change behavior before trying to change beliefs
4:12 — Make coaching and walkthroughs consistent
5:26 — From “I teach here” to “we teach here”
6:42 — Protect the culture you want through follow-through
Show Notes
Guest/host: Gene Tavernetti
Gene’s professional site: tesscg.com
Gene’s books include Teach Fast: Focus, Adaptable, Structured Teaching and Maximizing the Impact of Coaching Cycles.
Better Teaching is part of the BE Podcast Network: bepodcastnetwork.com
Production card: Basecamp

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Summary

Instructional coaches are often treated as a school’s all-purpose backup: covering classes, managing testing logistics, joining extra committees, and handling whatever emergency appears next. In this episode of Better Teaching, Gene Tavernetti explains how those individually reasonable requests quietly dismantle a coaching program.

Gene makes the case for protecting coaching time as carefully as instructional time. He recommends a clear job description, a schedule that protects observation and debriefing, explicit monthly expectations, and a target of spending 70–80 percent of the coach’s time in classrooms. The long-term choice is clear: covering a class solves today’s problem, while coaching improves instruction this year and the years that follow.

Chapters

• 0:00 — Welcome to Better Teaching
• 0:46 — The all-purpose support trap
• 1:23 — How understaffing consumes the coaching calendar
• 3:12 — The message teachers receive when coaches are pulled
• 4:08 — Define and protect the coaching role
• 4:49 — Keep 70–80% of the coach’s time in classrooms
• 5:16 — Dr. Randy Olson and the “nothing is an emergency” rule
• 5:44 — Short-term convenience versus long-term improvement
• 6:42 — Closing thoughts and resources

Show Notes

• **Host:** Gene Tavernetti
• **Core takeaway:** Protect the coaching calendar like instructional time. Define what coaches do—and what they do not do—and hold leadership accountable for preserving that work.
• **Recommended starting point:** Write a clear coaching job description, set a weekly schedule for observations and debriefs, and review the coach’s time allocation monthly.
• **Gene’s books:** *Teach Fast, Focus Adaptable Structure Teaching* and *Maximizing the Impact of Coaching Cycles*
• **Website:** TESS Consulting Group
• **BlueSky:** @gtavarnetti
• **X/Twitter:** @gtavarnetti
• **BE Podcast Network:** https://bepodcastnetwork.com/

About Better Teaching

Better Teaching is hosted by Gene Tavernetti and focuses on practical ideas for teachers, instructional coaches, administrators, and everyone who supports better work in classrooms—no clichés, no buzzwords, only stuff that works.

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Summary

In this episode of Better Teaching, Gene Tavernetti challenges the belief that effective coaching must be spontaneous and unscripted. He explains why a well-designed coaching script does not make a feedback conversation rigid or inauthentic—it gives the coach a reliable structure for specific, courageous, and useful feedback.

Gene connects coaching scripts to classroom-management routines, surgical checklists, crisis-response training, and his own experiences as a counselor, principal, and coach. The practical takeaway is simple: prepare the sequence, transitions, and language of a feedback conversation so you can be fully present when the conversation begins.

Chapters

• 0:00 — Welcome to Better Teaching
• 0:45 — The coaching trap: unplanned and unscripted feedback
• 2:57 — Why educators distrust scripts
• 3:57 — Scripts, checklists, and professional responsiveness
• 4:49 — How preparation helps coaches face fear
• 6:25 — Using scripts in high-stakes conversations
• 8:01 — What happens when a coach goes off script
• 8:47 — A practical standard for scripting feedback conversations
• 9:37 — Resources and closing

Show Notes

• **Host:** Gene Tavernetti
• **Featured idea:** Script coaching conversations with the same intentionality teachers bring to well-planned lessons.
• **Gene’s books:** *Teach Fast, Focus Adaptable Structure Teaching* and *Maximizing the Impact of Coaching Cycles*
• **Website:** TESS Consulting Group
• **BlueSky:** @gtavarnetti
• **X/Twitter:** @gtavarnetti
• **BE Podcast Network:** https://bepodcastnetwork.com/

About Better Teaching

Better Teaching is hosted by Gene Tavernetti and focuses on practical ideas for teachers, instructional coaches, administrators, and everyone who supports better work in classrooms—no clichés, no buzzwords, only stuff that works.

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Summary

What does effective literacy intervention look like for students in middle and high school? Faith Howard returns to Better Teaching: Only Stuff That Works to explain how she built Literacy Lab, a 6–12 intervention model that combines the science of reading with age-appropriate, grade-level texts.

Faith shares how a glorified study hall became a focused literacy intervention, why secondary educators need practical support in teaching foundational reading skills, and how schools can build sustainable literacy capacity instead of depending on one-time professional development. She also explains why teachers—not computer programs—teach kids, and how decoding, morphology, vocabulary, and rich novels can work together for adolescent readers.

Faith Howard is an adolescent-literacy leader and educational consultant with 17 years of experience in education. She has taught middle and high school English language arts, coached ELA and social studies teachers, served as a director of curriculum and instruction, and worked as a literacy specialist.

Chapters

• 00:00 — Meet Faith Howard and the case for adolescent literacy
• 01:48 — Why the original intervention model was not working
• 03:50 — Faith’s self-study in the science of reading
• 05:02 — Building Literacy Lab with foundational skills and grade-level texts
• 05:58 — Why teachers teach kids, not programs
• 08:11 — Making structured literacy meaningful for teenagers
• 10:39 — What “teen-friendly” literacy intervention really means
• 12:40 — Decoding, morphology, vocabulary, and complex texts
• 14:04 — What secondary teachers need from literacy support
• 17:27 — Demystifying the science of reading through modeling
• 21:11 — A sustainable sequence for schoolwide literacy improvement
• 24:16 — From professional development to practice and follow-through
• 44:49 — Building local capacity and letting the work speak for itself
• 46:36 — Gene’s closing message

Show Notes

Faith’s work focuses on students who have been overlooked or left behind by unsuccessful literacy interventions. Literacy Lab brings explicit foundational-skills instruction into a teen-friendly setting, pairing work with multisyllabic words, morphology, decoding, and vocabulary with thought-provoking, grade-level books.

In this conversation, Faith and Gene discuss:

• How students can be misidentified for intervention when schools do not examine the root causes of academic difficulty
• Why secondary teachers are often expected to address reading gaps without having been trained to teach reading
• The limits of relying on computer-based programs without an in-person connection
• How to adapt foundational reading routines for older students without giving them childish content
• Why adolescents need both explicit instruction and meaningful, challenging texts
• How Faith supports districts through modeling, planning, coaching, and follow-through
• Why lasting change requires school leaders and teachers to build capacity together

Learn more about Faith Howard and Literacy Lab:

• Website: https://literacylabwithfaith.com
• Facebook: Literacy Lab with Faith
• Substack: http://litlabwithfaith.substack.com/
• YouTube: Science of Reading Classroom
• Email: literacylabwithfaith@gmail.com

Faith also highlights the Wyoming Science of Teaching and Learning Collaborative Conference, taking place October 10 in Cody, Wyoming.

Better Teaching is hosted by Gene Tavernetti. Find more practical conversations about teaching and learning at https://tesscg.com.

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Summary

What should every new teacher know before they are asked to improvise, differentiate, or innovate? Gene Tavernetti argues that one of the most important foundations is fluency in explicit instruction—not just hearing about it in professional development, but learning to design it, deliver it, practice it, and receive feedback until the work becomes automatic.

Gene explains why that fluency matters in real classrooms: it reduces the number of decisions teachers have to make, gives them a reliable baseline for accommodations and modifications, helps schools eliminate instructional variables before moving students into intervention, sharpens their ability to evaluate purchased or AI-generated materials, and creates a common language for collaboration. The goal is not to make every lesson look the same; it is to give teachers a strong instructional foundation from which they can adapt intelligently.

Chapters

• 0:00 — Better Teaching introduction
• 0:41 — What new teachers need to know
• 1:52 — Why training and coaching matter
• 3:10 — Reason 1: Build fluency and automaticity
• 5:19 — Reason 2: Create a baseline for accommodations
• 6:22 — Reason 3: Eliminate instructional variables
• 8:02 — Reason 4: Evaluate curriculum and AI-generated lessons
• 10:08 — Reason 5: Build a common professional language
• 12:31 — Explicit instruction is a foundation, not a restriction
• 14:55 — Better Teaching outro

Show Notes

• Gene Tavernetti helps educators strengthen explicit instruction, lesson design, and instructional coaching.
• Gene’s website: https://tesscg.com/
• Gene’s books include Teach Fast, Focus, Adaptable Structured Teaching and Maximizing the Impact of Coaching Cycles.
• Follow Gene on Bluesky and X: @gtavernetti

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Summary

Glenn Whitman is a distinguished educator who has worked with schools around the world to support schools and teachers bringing evidence practices to their classrooms.

In this episode Glenn talks about his own school’s journey to becoming an evidence-based teaching institution, his continued role in that journey, and how his school supports schools around the world who also want to become evidence-based through The Center for Transformative Teaching.

Episode Links

• Website: Home - The Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning
• Glenn's Email: gwhitman@saes.org

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Summary

Kate Meyers and Nicole Davis, AKA Two Maine Teachers and authors the EduProtocol Field Guide: AI Literacy Edition, discuss AI, AI in schools, AI for teachers, and AI for literacy for students.

Show Notes

• LinkedIn: two-maine-teachers
• Facebook: Facebook
• Website: twomaineteachers.com
• Book: The EduProtocol Field Guide AI Literacy Edition

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In this episode, I talk about how to get a faster and more effective start to coaching this year.

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Everyone says one of the most effective ways to teach new content is by using explicit instruction. But fewer teachers than you might think can deliver an effective explicit instruction lesson. Dr. Tavernetti wrote Teach FAST to help remedy that situation and help guide teachers to more effective explicit instruction lesson.

In this episode Gene lists and explains the differences between this book and other books on explicit instruction.

Andrew Bixler, a friend and colleague of Gene Tavernetti, turns the tables and interviews Gene about his book Teach FAST: Focused Adaptable Structured Teaching.

https://www.amazon.com/Teach-Fast-Adaptable-Structured-Teaching/dp/1915261554?crid=39CLNUWCJ9L0T&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.iiA4smktUs4Js_n3322-hiH6Q5KCcbd9w3vrfs6hm05jnwkb-8Qdy0VyHFV4BiK_.v-4CmNFMAm939NxiVbOnc7FKhzD9siIYayFBgKxBKKA&dib_tag=se&keywords=gene+tavernetti&qid=1741620511&sprefix=gene+ta%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-1Get Teach FASThere.

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Beth Hawks talks about her new book, Show Your Work: Teaching Smarter with the Science of Learning as well as her professional path to the Science of Learning and how she utilized it in her teaching.

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In this episode Alison Rini, founder of Star Lab school in Sarasota, Florida, describes her journey in education and how her vision of a microschool became a reality.

After 25 years of teaching and leading public, private, and charter schools, Alison Rini left the school system and designed a microschool called Star Lab. In order to bring the vision to reality, Alison received a fellowship from The Drexel Fund, providing support and training to design an outstanding educational program accessible to low-income families. Alison is passionate about brain science, learning principles, and human flourishing. She intentionally set Star Lab in a low-income zip code of Sarasota to test the assumption that 95% of children can learn to read given proper instruction. Star Lab is entering its third year of operation, growing from 5 students in its first year, to 20 students last year, to 50 students for the school year starting this August. Many of the students who come to Star Lab have had struggles in their previous placements, and Alison’s goal is to prove that children growing up in public housing can achieve at the highest levels when school is designed around how children actually learn. Alison has three degrees from Columbia University in Neuroscience, Curriculum, and Leadership, but she has learned the most in the past few years of her school design journey.

X/Twitter: @Educ8Liber8

LinkedIn: @AlisonRiniStarLab

Facebook: @StarLabSRQ

Instagram: @StarLabSRQ

Star Lab donation page: https://www.starlab.world/donate.html

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This is latest in our series of Thinking Out Loud. In this episode Zach Grosell and I talk about your year in consulting and a plethora of other topics.

Links:
Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching

Maximizing the Impact of Coaching Cycles

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Jane Wagner spent more than 30 years as a teacher and driving force of an award-winning K-8 Visual and Performing Arts magnet school. In this episode we discuss the challenges of maintaining a quality thematic school.

Gene's Books:
Teach Fast
Maximizing the Impact of Coaching Cycles
Digital Captives

X: (1) Gene Tavernetti (@gtavernetti) / X

LinkedIn:(7) Gene Tavernetti | LinkedIn

http://www.tesscg.com/

Substack: Gene Tavernetti | Substack

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In this episode, I talk about what takes more time than we think when it comes to implementation, and what takes longer than we think.

Links:
Gene's Books:
Teach Fast
Maximizing the Impact of Coaching Cycles
Digital Captives

X: (1) Gene Tavernetti (@gtavernetti) / X

LinkedIn:(7) Gene Tavernetti | LinkedIn

http://www.tesscg.com/

Substack: Gene Tavernetti | Substack

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In this episode Dr. Anthony Fitzpatrick talks about a unique apprenticeship program designed to enhance skills of teachers and facilitate movement on the salary schedule all without intrusive amounts of time after regular school hours. Who benefits? Everyone!

Links:

LinkedIn: Anthony Fitzpatrick, Ed.D. | LinkedIn

Facebook: (1) anthony fitzpatrick - Search Results | Facebook

Instagram: antfitz55

Website: Anthony Fitzpatrick | Enhance Education Today – Get Inspired

Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@antfitzy

Anthony's most recent book:

The Evolving Science of Reading: Building a Continuum from Foundations to Fluent Thinking

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In this episode, Gene Tavernetti speaks with Dr. Randy Palisoc, a passionate educator known for his innovative approach to teaching math. Dr. Palisoc shares his experiences and strategies for making math easy for students, focusing on the importance of understanding math as a language. They discuss Dr. Palisoc's background, including his work at Synergy Academies, the development of the Core Advantage Math Fluency System, and his current role at James Jordan Middle School. The conversation also covers the challenges of teaching math, the significance of consistent language in math instruction, and the impact of professional development.

Get in touch with Randy:
randypalisoc@mathfluency.com or randypalisoc@gmail.com

http://mathfluency.com/

http://linkedin.com/randypalisoc/

Math isn't hard, it's a language | Randy Palisoc | TEDxManhattanBeach (youtube.com)

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