Learning from Pam Kastner

For this episode of CA Today, Sarah Cartmill sits down with Dr. Pam Kastner following her fourth year leading ELA Camp with educators across the CA BOCES region. Dr. Kastner explores the Instructional Hierarchy, a framework grounded in the science of learning that explains how students move from initial learning to mastery. She unpacks the four stages of acquisition, fluency, generalization, and adaptation, emphasizing the importance of explicit instruction, immediate feedback, frequent opportunities to respond, and achieving high levels of accuracy before expecting independent application…