Everyday teachers wrestle with questions, like: Why didn’t they remember yesterday’s lesson? Why did that activity feel engaging but not stick? What can I do differently tomorrow? The Science of Learning gives you practical methods you can use right away. In this course, you’ll learn how attention, working memory, long-term memory, depth of processing, motivation, and metacognition shape what students actually retain and how those ideas show up in everyday classroom moments. You’ll translate research into practical instructional shifts as you debunk common learning myths, redesign lessons using a memory-based model, build quick routines that strengthen retention, and sharpen questioning techniques to deepen and extend student thinking. You’ll also create a Thinking Equity Playbook to expand students’ access to meaningful thinking across your classroom and school. In every module, you will connect a Science of Learning principle to a real instructional decision and explicitly name how that decision increases students’ access to meaningful thinking and learning. When teachers ground instructional decisions in the Science of Learning, they create the conditions for thinking that sticks!

How to Use This Course: The Thinking Equity Loop
Each module follows the same learning loop to support clarity, retention, and transfer:
• Learn a Science of Learning principle
• Apply it to one instructional decision
• Name how that decision increases students’ access to meaningful thinking
• Capture the strategy in a reusable tool

This course format builds from module to module in a way that allows you to work through each of the essential ideas in smaller, more focused segments. You’ll find the same great resources and applicable assignments, distributed over 10 modules.

 

This course is available for pre-registration as part of our Summer Savings Sale! Use code CELEBRATE to save $90 through July 15th. Canvas course access will be available on July 16, 2026.