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S2 E2: The Remedy Is Always Teaching

October 15, 2026 · 27 min

At an experimental preschool in Illinois, Zig Engelmann and his colleagues begin turning his ideas into a classroom teaching method. Along the way, they make a series of discoveries about effective instruction. Their mantra: “If the student hasn’t learned, the teacher hasn’t taught.”


Read: What is Direct Instruction?
Video: The 5 key concepts of DI
Video: Who was Zig Engelmann?


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