Learning science for real educational practice.
The Learning Scientists Podcast brings evidence-based learning into practical educational conversations. Recent episodes move from retrieval practice and executive functioning to neurodiversity, science communication, compassion fatigue, and digital access.
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The Learning Scientists Podcast is an education show about evidence-based practice, learning, and the many conditions that shape how people study and teach. It does not stay in a narrow lane of study tips. Recent episodes move between cognition, classroom supports, student access, educator well-being, and communication. Retrieval practice appears as a serious learning strategy, especially in health professions education where high-volume content and high-stakes exams make effective study methods matter. Neurodiversity is treated through school practice, accommodations, and the difference between special education services and access supports. Executive functioning gets similar practical attention. A conversation with Sean McCormick connects student behavior, emotional readiness, and strategies for helping kids move toward less impulsive outcomes. The show also makes room for the adults in the system. An episode with Dr Chiara Horlin focuses on compassion fatigue in educators and the way secondary traumatic stress can affect retention, morale, and support systems. Another episode considers science communication as distinct from teaching, especially when audiences change from students to parents or the general public. The show’s recent range also includes the digital divide, inclusive education, disability, chronic illness, and long-term health conditions. That breadth gives the podcast a useful center of gravity. It is not simply about better grades or better lessons. It is about the interaction between learning research and the lived constraints of classrooms, families, institutions, and access. The register is warm, academic, and conversational. Guests are introduced with enough background to orient the listener, then the episodes tend to work through definitions, examples, and implications. The result is a practical bridge between cognitive psychology and education work. It suits a listener who wants research-informed educational thinking without losing sight of people, systems, and support.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants research-informed education talk connected to classrooms, student support, and study practice. It also fits parents or students interested in how learning conditions shape access and progress.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by pairing cognitive learning strategies with adjacent issues such as neurodiversity, compassion fatigue, digital access, science communication, and inclusive teaching. Its range makes learning science feel institutional, interpersonal, and practical at once.
A podcast for teachers, students, and parents about evidence based practice and learning.
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A practical conversation on helping learners question inner thoughts and turn reflection into agency.
Self-belief lands here as something students can practice, not simply possess. The host and Miriam Da Silva look at how young learners might notice the thoughts and mental images shaping their sense of ability, then learn to question and reframe them.
A practical, careful guide to how school support depends on educational impact and what accommodations can look like.
The Learning Scientists Podcast takes a question that can get murky fast, what support neurodivergent students can receive at school, and keeps it grounded in educational impact, special education services, and classroom access.
A grounded look at compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and the pressure they place on educators.
Teaching is often treated as care directed outward, but this episode turns toward the cost for the people doing that work. Karolina Kupatetse and Dr.
A practical look at how scientific explanations change when the audience changes.
Science communication comes across as a hands-on problem of translation: difficult ideas have to be shaped for the people in front of the speaker, with analogies and metaphors chosen for that specific audience.
Careful conversations for better college teaching.
Calm, specific college admissions guidance.
Campus radio from the wrong side of reality.
Campus decisions, Northeast news, and Northeast priorities.
This Learning Scientists Podcast episode argues that belief is something students earn, not something teachers can simply hand them with encouragement.
Emily Kircher-Morris joins The Learning Scientists Podcast to talk about supporting neurodivergent kids and adults, drawing on her work as a licensed professional counselor, host of the Neurodiversity Podcast, and author of Neurodiversity Affirming Schools.
Althea Neat-Kaminsky discusses the adoption of retrieval practice in health professions education, highlighting reasons for its embrace and barriers to its effective use.
The Learning Scientist Podcast episode centers on compassion fatigue in educators, with Karolina Kupatetse of the University of Glasgow framing the topic around teacher well-being.
Althea Kaminsky and Leonardo Fleto frame science communication as a set of roles, not one profession, and Fleto lists teachers, scientists, journalists, public speakers, and content creators.
Sean McCormick says executive function skills can predict later math and reading outcomes better than early subject-specific instruction.
The Learning Scientists Podcast introduces three planned formats: educator and student conversations, research episodes, and readings of popular blog posts.
Mitch Weathers defines executive functioning in classrooms through habits such as goal setting, time management, organization, and self-regulation.
At ResearchED in Delaware, Jared Cooney Horvath says four decades of evidence associate frequent school computer use with worse learning outcomes.
Amber Birsen discusses the digital divide and its impact on education, based on a new report from Oxford University Press.
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An interview with the co-founders of Podsie, a nonprofit providing free evidence-based learning techniques for teachers and students.
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Two university students share their experiences with online learning during the pandemic.