Rebound: How Schools Accelerate Learning Recovery

S17E991 - Rebound: How Schools Accelerate Learning Recovery

Published: September 21, 2026

Duration: 11:49

NUMBER 4 IN OUR COUNTDOWN OF THE TOP 10 EPISODES OF THE FIRST 1,000. This one originally aired in December 2021 and has been downloaded 26,813 times — the fourth most-listened-to episode in the history of the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast.

Dr. Douglas Fisher came on to talk about Rebound, the book he wrote with Nancy Frey, Dominique Smith, and John Hattie. The pandemic framing is dated. The research underneath it is not — and it answers a question every teacher still has: when a student is behind, do you go back, or do you go forward?

Doug's answer is forward. The acceleration rese...