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How Learning Really Works – Professional Books & Services for Educators
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Translate the science of learning into strategies for maximum learning impact in your classroom
When we purposefully take findings from the science of learning (how the brain learns) and identify principles that can be implemented in our daily practice and follow-up the implementation with gathering evidence of our impact and then furthering our practice by teaching the strategies—this is what we mean by "not by chance, but by design."
Doug Fisher on Evaluating Our Impact
Professional Books
Professional Learning Services
Our How Learning Works institutes and professional learning workshops are designed to help translate the science of how learning works to the classroom. Check out our professional learning options and find out how to enhance and accelerate learning:
Attend a virtual institute
Our institutes offer high impact opportunities to learn from educational experts—ideal for individuals or small groups looking to jumpstart their learning. The How The Learning Brain Works Institute provides an easily accessible look at the process for translating research about how learning works into classroom practices that enhance and accelerate student learning. Attendees will:
- Learn about how the learning brain works and how this translates into potential for enhancing and accelerating learning
- Build a shared language of learning around implementing the science of learning
- Build collective efficacy
Book personalized workshops with a certified consultant
Our workshops are designed for schools or districts who want to bring a certified consultant to their school (virtually or face-to-face) to explore different content areas. Workshops are best for:
- Engaging in personalized and customized services for lasting impact
- Working through the content as a large group alongside the consultant to create a practical action plan
- Schools or districts that want multi-day consulting services held specifically for your district to ensure impactful implementation
Based on the Visible Learning+ framework, How Learning Works professional learning workshops allow schools and districts to dive deep into the work with a certified consultant to evaluate their impact and translate the science of learning into strategies to implement in your classroom.
Free Resources
A Look at How Learning Works Webinar
Presented by Nancy Frey and John Almarode
Understanding how learning works helps us make decisions that move learning forward in our schools and classrooms. Over the past 150 years, cognitive scientists have generated amazing research on how our students acquire, consolidate, and store information. This webinar provides an overview of the science of learning and how to translate that science into classroom practices that increase student learning.
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey and John Almarode on "How Learning Works" PODCAST
On this episode of the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, host Andrea Samadi welcomes John Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey to discuss their new playbook, How Learning Works.
Presented by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Almarode
Tutoring is much more than telling students information. Effective tutoring begins with the strong and caring relationship a tutor establishes with a learner to build trust, fuel motivation, and drive critical learning.
How Learning Works: Blog Series
This 4 part series featured on Corwin Connect will discuss the promising principles that enhance learning. Read all four:
How Learning Works Introduction
In this introduction to How Learning Works, the authors discuss the purpose and how to use their playbook, plus give a brief overview of how learning truly works—not by chance, but by design.
Module 5 - Promising Principle 1: Motivation
In Module 5 from How Learning Works, the authors discuss the first of their "promising principles": Motivation. In this module, they bridge the gap between ideas and theories around motivation and the application of these strategies in the classroom.
How Learning Works: Learning Myths
Read the list of beliefs and misconceptions about learning that are not supported by research and may actually interfere with our support of learning acquisition, consolidation, and long-term storate. Do you think the statements are true or false? Check your answers!