Teach Smarter Podcast · Guest

Zaretta Hammond

Author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain · National consultant on instructional equity

About Zaretta

Zaretta Hammond is the author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain and a national consultant with over 25 years of experience helping educators deepen their instructional equity practices.

Her upcoming book, Rebuilding Students’ Learning Power, expands on this work, challenging educators to rethink how we coach cognition in an AI-saturated classroom.

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Cognitive Justice in the Age of AI with Zaretta Hammond

July 23, 2025 · 51 min

Zaretta Hammond joins us to explore how AI and edtech can either reinforce a pedagogy of compliance or unlock true cognitive justice for students.

We dig into over-scaffolding, feedback loops, the science of learning, and how teachers can reclaim their role as personal trainers of student thinking instead of just content deliverers.

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