Welcome to Text Savvy! My name is Josh Fisher. I am an author, Senior Instructional Designer, and AI content engineer working in the K-12 space. I have had the good fortune of doing what I love—writing textbooks and researching instruction—for nearly 30 years now.

I believe that the primary purpose of education is to build students' powerful foundational knowledge, enabling all of them to understand, participate in, lead, and even reshape local, national, and global conversations around critical issues facing our communities and important ideas that speak to our common humanity.

To those ends, I support explicit-instruction based teaching methodologies and communitarian orientations to curriculum and instruction. My writing on this site represents this focus on instruction—the 'text' of education—along with advocacy for explicit-instruction (and against hyperpersonalization) informed by a wide variety of research arenas, including cognitive science, anthropology, evolutionary biology, linguistics, and psychology (not to mention common sense).

Quality education is a birthright of every global citizen. And it is our duty to help students, young or old, attain it.