Anna Stokke
@rastokke.bsky.social
Math professor. 3M National Teaching Fellow. PhD Math. Co-founder of Archimedes Math Schools (nonprofit). Chalk & Talk Podcast: http://chalkandtalkpodcast.podbean.com
1/3 🚨 It is a human right to provide good instruction to children. Canadian Human Rights Commission investigations exposed the need to improve reading instruction. Why were they neeeded, and what did they uncover? All discussed in my latest episode with George Georgiou.
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
1/3 🚨 It is a human right to provide good instruction to children. Canadian Human Rights Commission investigations exposed the need to improve reading instruction. Why were they neeeded, and what did they uncover? All discussed in my latest episode with George Georgiou.
🔥 New episode drops tomorrow with George Georgiou! We discuss Human Rights inquiries into why Canadian schools failed to teach so many children to read, gaps in pre-service teacher prep & more.
WANTED: Human Rights investigations for MATH.
🎧It's a great episode! Don’t miss it!
WANTED: Human Rights investigations for MATH.
🎧It's a great episode! Don’t miss it!
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🔥 New episode drops tomorrow with George Georgiou! We discuss Human Rights inquiries into why Canadian schools failed to teach so many children to read, gaps in pre-service teacher prep & more.
WANTED: Human Rights investigations for MATH.
🎧It's a great episode! Don’t miss it!
WANTED: Human Rights investigations for MATH.
🎧It's a great episode! Don’t miss it!
Brian Conrad, The Atlantic:
"Who's going to trust somebody w/ a degree in airline engineering [& can't] think through a problem w/o a computer telling them the answer? The premise that foundational ideas don't need to be learned anymore is a recipe for idiocracy"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
"Who's going to trust somebody w/ a degree in airline engineering [& can't] think through a problem w/o a computer telling them the answer? The premise that foundational ideas don't need to be learned anymore is a recipe for idiocracy"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Brian Conrad, The Atlantic:
"Who's going to trust somebody w/ a degree in airline engineering [& can't] think through a problem w/o a computer telling them the answer? The premise that foundational ideas don't need to be learned anymore is a recipe for idiocracy"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
"Who's going to trust somebody w/ a degree in airline engineering [& can't] think through a problem w/o a computer telling them the answer? The premise that foundational ideas don't need to be learned anymore is a recipe for idiocracy"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
💡How do you develop math problem solving skills? The data & our experience as mathematicians suggests we focus on:
✔️ Building knowledge
✔️ Explicit teaching
✔️ Practice
✔️ Mastery before projects & inquiry
You need the “scales” before the “sonatas.” 🎙️Episode w/ Nuno Crato link below.
✔️ Building knowledge
✔️ Explicit teaching
✔️ Practice
✔️ Mastery before projects & inquiry
You need the “scales” before the “sonatas.” 🎙️Episode w/ Nuno Crato link below.
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
💡How do you develop math problem solving skills? The data & our experience as mathematicians suggests we focus on:
✔️ Building knowledge
✔️ Explicit teaching
✔️ Practice
✔️ Mastery before projects & inquiry
You need the “scales” before the “sonatas.” 🎙️Episode w/ Nuno Crato link below.
✔️ Building knowledge
✔️ Explicit teaching
✔️ Practice
✔️ Mastery before projects & inquiry
You need the “scales” before the “sonatas.” 🎙️Episode w/ Nuno Crato link below.
Northern lights in Winnipeg tonight.
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Northern lights in Winnipeg tonight.
💡 Lowering standards, eliminating exams, removing accountability/transparency measures doesn't help disadvantaged students: it hurts them. They suffer the most. Nuno Crato knows the data inside and out. We talked about it on my latest podcast.
Link to full episode 👉 youtu.be/3pyPQpPOMmc
Link to full episode 👉 youtu.be/3pyPQpPOMmc
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
💡 Lowering standards, eliminating exams, removing accountability/transparency measures doesn't help disadvantaged students: it hurts them. They suffer the most. Nuno Crato knows the data inside and out. We talked about it on my latest podcast.
Link to full episode 👉 youtu.be/3pyPQpPOMmc
Link to full episode 👉 youtu.be/3pyPQpPOMmc
Uncovering more math hijinks at SFUSD
beyondchron.org/uncovering-m...
beyondchron.org/uncovering-m...
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Uncovering more math hijinks at SFUSD
beyondchron.org/uncovering-m...
beyondchron.org/uncovering-m...
📚 “Everything starts with the curriculum.” When goals aren’t clear, expectations get watered down & students pay the price. A knowledge-based curriculum (standards) with clear goals is key to meaningful education reforms. New episode with Nuno Crato is out now. 🔥 Link below.
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
📚 “Everything starts with the curriculum.” When goals aren’t clear, expectations get watered down & students pay the price. A knowledge-based curriculum (standards) with clear goals is key to meaningful education reforms. New episode with Nuno Crato is out now. 🔥 Link below.
🚨New episode in video & audio!🚨
What happens when a mathematician becomes Education Minister? Nuno Crato led an education turnaround in Portugal. The result? Portugal went from near the bottom to outperforming Finland on PISA/TIMSS. How? Episode link below 👇
What happens when a mathematician becomes Education Minister? Nuno Crato led an education turnaround in Portugal. The result? Portugal went from near the bottom to outperforming Finland on PISA/TIMSS. How? Episode link below 👇
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🚨New episode in video & audio!🚨
What happens when a mathematician becomes Education Minister? Nuno Crato led an education turnaround in Portugal. The result? Portugal went from near the bottom to outperforming Finland on PISA/TIMSS. How? Episode link below 👇
What happens when a mathematician becomes Education Minister? Nuno Crato led an education turnaround in Portugal. The result? Portugal went from near the bottom to outperforming Finland on PISA/TIMSS. How? Episode link below 👇
✨ 🚨 New Episode DROPS TOMORROW 🚨 ✨
My guest is a mathematician who became Minister of Education and raised Portugal’s PISA & TIMSS results. What was the formula?
Don’t miss my conversation with Nuno Crato!
My guest is a mathematician who became Minister of Education and raised Portugal’s PISA & TIMSS results. What was the formula?
Don’t miss my conversation with Nuno Crato!
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
✨ 🚨 New Episode DROPS TOMORROW 🚨 ✨
My guest is a mathematician who became Minister of Education and raised Portugal’s PISA & TIMSS results. What was the formula?
Don’t miss my conversation with Nuno Crato!
My guest is a mathematician who became Minister of Education and raised Portugal’s PISA & TIMSS results. What was the formula?
Don’t miss my conversation with Nuno Crato!
✨ 🚨 New Episode DROPS TOMORROW 🚨 ✨
My guest is a mathematician who became Minister of Education and raised Portugal’s PISA & TIMSS results. What was the formula?
Don’t miss my conversation with Nuno Crato!
My guest is a mathematician who became Minister of Education and raised Portugal’s PISA & TIMSS results. What was the formula?
Don’t miss my conversation with Nuno Crato!
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
✨ 🚨 New Episode DROPS TOMORROW 🚨 ✨
My guest is a mathematician who became Minister of Education and raised Portugal’s PISA & TIMSS results. What was the formula?
Don’t miss my conversation with Nuno Crato!
My guest is a mathematician who became Minister of Education and raised Portugal’s PISA & TIMSS results. What was the formula?
Don’t miss my conversation with Nuno Crato!
🎯Learning is a civil right. Kids deserve instruction that works. How to do it? Read about explicit instruction. Then do it.
🎥 Clip from my conversation with Anita Archer. Link to full episode and link to resource page with articles below. 👇
🎥 Clip from my conversation with Anita Archer. Link to full episode and link to resource page with articles below. 👇
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🎯Learning is a civil right. Kids deserve instruction that works. How to do it? Read about explicit instruction. Then do it.
🎥 Clip from my conversation with Anita Archer. Link to full episode and link to resource page with articles below. 👇
🎥 Clip from my conversation with Anita Archer. Link to full episode and link to resource page with articles below. 👇
🔁 Increasing opportunities to respond is one the most transformative tools in teaching.
More student responses =
✅ higher engagement
✅ more time on task
✅ more learning
We discuss why it's important in the clip. Lots of strategies discussed in the full episode. Link below.
More student responses =
✅ higher engagement
✅ more time on task
✅ more learning
We discuss why it's important in the clip. Lots of strategies discussed in the full episode. Link below.
November 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🔁 Increasing opportunities to respond is one the most transformative tools in teaching.
More student responses =
✅ higher engagement
✅ more time on task
✅ more learning
We discuss why it's important in the clip. Lots of strategies discussed in the full episode. Link below.
More student responses =
✅ higher engagement
✅ more time on task
✅ more learning
We discuss why it's important in the clip. Lots of strategies discussed in the full episode. Link below.
Manitoba Human Rights Commission found that "many schools are not using evidence-based methods to teach reading" www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
November 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Manitoba Human Rights Commission found that "many schools are not using evidence-based methods to teach reading" www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
If students were taught well in the first place, fewer would need Tier 2 intervention. Some students are victims of instructional disabilities, not learning disabilities.
This is from my conversation with Anita Archer. Link to episode below 👇
This is from my conversation with Anita Archer. Link to episode below 👇
November 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
If students were taught well in the first place, fewer would need Tier 2 intervention. Some students are victims of instructional disabilities, not learning disabilities.
This is from my conversation with Anita Archer. Link to episode below 👇
This is from my conversation with Anita Archer. Link to episode below 👇
Anita's "Archerisms". You can download a pdf copy from the resource page for my episode with Anita Archer here: www.annastokke.com/resources/ep...
November 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Anita's "Archerisms". You can download a pdf copy from the resource page for my episode with Anita Archer here: www.annastokke.com/resources/ep...
What is explicit instruction? Anita Archer, one of the world's leading experts on explicit instruction, explains it here.
Check out the full episode: youtu.be/EE5wvi-xQTM?...
Check out the full episode: youtu.be/EE5wvi-xQTM?...
October 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
What is explicit instruction? Anita Archer, one of the world's leading experts on explicit instruction, explains it here.
Check out the full episode: youtu.be/EE5wvi-xQTM?...
Check out the full episode: youtu.be/EE5wvi-xQTM?...
🎙️From my episode with Anita Archer.
"How well you teach = How well they learn"
The three C's of effective teaching:
Clear ✅ Concise ✅ Consistent ✅
Link to full episode below 👉 youtu.be/EE5wvi-xQTM?...
"How well you teach = How well they learn"
The three C's of effective teaching:
Clear ✅ Concise ✅ Consistent ✅
Link to full episode below 👉 youtu.be/EE5wvi-xQTM?...
October 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
🎙️From my episode with Anita Archer.
"How well you teach = How well they learn"
The three C's of effective teaching:
Clear ✅ Concise ✅ Consistent ✅
Link to full episode below 👉 youtu.be/EE5wvi-xQTM?...
"How well you teach = How well they learn"
The three C's of effective teaching:
Clear ✅ Concise ✅ Consistent ✅
Link to full episode below 👉 youtu.be/EE5wvi-xQTM?...
🎙️ New episode with Anita Archer is out now!
Check out my conversation with one of the world’s leading experts on explicit instruction––what is it, why it works & how to use it effectively.
Available in video on Youtube & Spotify; audio on all podcast platforms. Link 👉 youtu.be/EE5wvi-xQTM?...
Check out my conversation with one of the world’s leading experts on explicit instruction––what is it, why it works & how to use it effectively.
Available in video on Youtube & Spotify; audio on all podcast platforms. Link 👉 youtu.be/EE5wvi-xQTM?...
October 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
🎙️ New episode with Anita Archer is out now!
Check out my conversation with one of the world’s leading experts on explicit instruction––what is it, why it works & how to use it effectively.
Available in video on Youtube & Spotify; audio on all podcast platforms. Link 👉 youtu.be/EE5wvi-xQTM?...
Check out my conversation with one of the world’s leading experts on explicit instruction––what is it, why it works & how to use it effectively.
Available in video on Youtube & Spotify; audio on all podcast platforms. Link 👉 youtu.be/EE5wvi-xQTM?...
Just because it's new, doesn't mean it's better. Carl Hendrick unmasking the innovation illusion in my latest episode. Check out the full episode here ➡️ open.spotify.com/episode/0hIj...
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Just because it's new, doesn't mean it's better. Carl Hendrick unmasking the innovation illusion in my latest episode. Check out the full episode here ➡️ open.spotify.com/episode/0hIj...
🚨 Big episode dropping tomorrow in video and audio! 🚨
Subscribe to the Chalk & Talk YouTube channel so you don’t miss it!
I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with the amazing Anita Archer, one of the world’s leading experts on explicit instruction.
Subscribe 👉 www.youtube.com/@chalktalk-s...
Subscribe to the Chalk & Talk YouTube channel so you don’t miss it!
I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with the amazing Anita Archer, one of the world’s leading experts on explicit instruction.
Subscribe 👉 www.youtube.com/@chalktalk-s...
October 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🚨 Big episode dropping tomorrow in video and audio! 🚨
Subscribe to the Chalk & Talk YouTube channel so you don’t miss it!
I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with the amazing Anita Archer, one of the world’s leading experts on explicit instruction.
Subscribe 👉 www.youtube.com/@chalktalk-s...
Subscribe to the Chalk & Talk YouTube channel so you don’t miss it!
I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with the amazing Anita Archer, one of the world’s leading experts on explicit instruction.
Subscribe 👉 www.youtube.com/@chalktalk-s...
Here's Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social unmasking the discovery illusion in my latest episode. @carlhendrick.substack.com Link to full episode below.
October 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Here's Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social unmasking the discovery illusion in my latest episode. @carlhendrick.substack.com Link to full episode below.
Part of my upcoming episode with the amazing Anita Archer will air over lunch at researchED Atlantic Canada this Saturday, October 25!
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Part of my upcoming episode with the amazing Anita Archer will air over lunch at researchED Atlantic Canada this Saturday, October 25!
Here's Paul Kirschner talking about the butterfly effect in education. Experts often forget what it was like to be a beginner. They’ve become “butterflies” but forget they were once "caterpillars" learning step by step 🐛➡️🦋
Link to full episode below.
Link to full episode below.
October 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Here's Paul Kirschner talking about the butterfly effect in education. Experts often forget what it was like to be a beginner. They’ve become “butterflies” but forget they were once "caterpillars" learning step by step 🐛➡️🦋
Link to full episode below.
Link to full episode below.
Here's Carl Hendrick talking about the engagement illusion in my latest episode. Engagement does not imply learning!
Link to full episode 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/0hIj...
Link to full episode 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/0hIj...
October 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Here's Carl Hendrick talking about the engagement illusion in my latest episode. Engagement does not imply learning!
Link to full episode 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/0hIj...
Link to full episode 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/0hIj...