Ideas What I believe:  Every human should know how to learn. Knowing how to learn is the engine that drives every other part of life....

Belcher’s "Model for Learning" [Image by Belcher] Learning happens throughout life. From the moment we are alive to our final days, the...

Practice and performance are often mentioned side by side, plus I’ve had many experiences with practice and performance through my...

How much is writing worth to your personal and professional life? What if you could increase the clarity of your writing, leading your...

Ideas Before we get into the specifics of performance, take a minute and review my Model for Learning. Please work yourself through the...

In this essay, we’ll dig into what makes practice meaningful — not the rote, mindless repetitions we’re sometimes told to endure, but...

Ideas I chose to name this work The Learning Engine  because the name implies motion. One of the main drivers of motion in our learning...

Ideas Have you ever noticed how learning seems to happen in cycles? We try something, reflect on the outcome, adjust our approach, and...

Have you ever faced a challenge that was difficult but not impossible, where you struggled but ultimately learned and grew from the...

Whatever our personal feelings are about AI, the technology is here to stay — and advancing at a good clip. This essay will discuss a few...

Ideas At some point in life, everyone is a teacher. Being a teacher can happen in many different ways: Choosing a career as a teacher or...

Effective feedback transforms learning. Discover the right kind, way, and time for feedback that drives excellence.

Ideas Before getting into the ideas for learning plateaus , take a look at Belcher’s  Model for Learning . Please work through the model,...

Ideas Learning is not learning without application — we must test the sets of knowledge and skills in our conceptual models in many...

As a teacher, how do you know your students are learning? Although this question may seem simple to answer, the way a teacher or coach...

How does a teacher organize instruction to maximize student learning? This question has been important for the entire time humans have...

As an expert in your field, you are in the advanced stage of learning. You have a rich understanding of the knowledge and skills in your...

Congratulations! You are no longer a beginner — you have made it to the “messy middle” stage of learning. You have created foundational...

Learning a new complex set of knowledge and skills is both scary and exciting: Scary because you are adventuring into the unknown;...

Prior to the mid-1800s, science and science education in the United States existed in an unstructured manner. However, the public’s...