Translating the Science of Learning into Applicable and Coherent Practice

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Learning science is not another initiative, but a foundation for how educators teach, lead, and learn together.

OUR SERVICES

School & District Partnerships

Our school and district partnerships are deep, durable engagements that last 1–3 years. The longer timeframe allows for sustainable, systemic change.

Partners have worked on a range of strategic efforts, such as:

Identifying the needs of the system and contextually relevant supports.
Developing a shared understanding of and language for high-quality teaching across a school or district.
Empowering instructional leaders to incorporate equity-driven, evidence-informed practices with alignment.

Institutes & Workshops

Our institutes and workshops provide an introduction to the science of learning, exploring how it can shape the decisions teachers and leaders make every day.

Here we explore foundational concepts of the mind so that educators can 'get their hands dirty' with the work of evidence-informed practice. Sessions consider a range of learning science principles, such as:

Memory & Retrieval

Why do we remember some things and forget others?

Cognitive Load

How much information can students bear at one time?

Effortful Thinking

What type of thinking best supports robust learning?

Prior Knowledge

How does our existing knowledge shape the way we encounter new ideas?

Our institutes explore how such principles play out within the conditions of real schools and classrooms. Focal areas include:

How to interpret curricular materials and make them applicable within your context.
How to plan for instruction that focuses on what students are thinking more than what the teacher is doing.
How to adapt instructional choices: from effective question formulation and task design, to assessment and feedback.

Leadership & Implementation Support

Our leadership and implementation support work is done shoulder-to-shoulder with leadership teams as they seek to prioritize areas for improvement and embed learning science into their systems and structures over time.

This can include support around:

How to ground school or district resource allocation in an understanding of what we know works and why.
How to design arcs of high-quality, relevant, and sustainable professional learning, rather than one-off experiences.
How to build observation, feedback, and evaluation systems informed by the science of learning.

Keynotes & Conferences

Our public speaking offerings include conference keynotes, pre- or post-conference intensives, district events, and PLC gatherings.

We draw on research, classroom examples, and system-level insight to help audiences move beyond enthusiasm for learning science toward clearer thinking about what it requires in practice.

Recent appearances include:

Our services help educators and leaders understand the science of learning and apply it to improve instruction, leadership, and outcomes for every student.

Professional Learning That Moves From Awareness to Systemwide Practice

HOW WE APPROACH PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

Too often, schools and school systems expect educators to sit through one-and-done professional learning experiences rather than grounding adult learning in what we know about the mind.

Our work is different. We believe that professional learning should model the very principles it promotes, and we should use the science of learning in order to teach it.

We begin by building shared understanding about how people learn, focusing on how we attend to, process, encode, and retain information. We then invite teachers and leaders to consider how those principles play out in their classrooms, their schools, and their systems.