Hot take, teacher friends 🔥… Inquiry-based. Project-based. Discovery learning. Play-based. Cooperative learning. All of these pedagogies mean well. They’re creative, engaging, and sound amazing on paper. But here’s the truth no one wants to say out loud: without the backbone of explicit teaching, they fall flat. 🚨 Why? Because if students don’t first have the clarity, modelling, and guided practice of explicit instruction… all those “fun” approaches risk becoming surface-level busywork. 💡 Exp