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Newsletter 011: “That’s How Learning Works?!?! A Comprehensive Model for Understanding the Learning Process”
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The Learning Engine
We teach you the principles of learning, helping you understand and apply the principles of learning in your leading, coaching, and teaching. By using the principles of learning, your leading, coaching, and teaching will be more effective!
The Learning Engine 9 June 2026 Description, Explanation, and Prediction: The Step-Changes at the Heart of Leadership Your post-observation conversation with a teacher is happening in a few minutes, so you gather your notes. You had reviewed the student performance dashboard before walking into the classroom; an AI agent had flagged the students for this teacher as underperforming on reading comprehension for three straight months. Your observation showed the same pattern: Students were...
The Learning Engine 2 June 2026 Your AI Agent Found a Pattern; Now What? The Instructional Leader’s Role in Connecting Solutions to Your Context Your district’s new AI agent is now connected to a student performance dashboard. You ask the AI agent to find patterns in the dashboard; one of the patterns is that students seem to be underperforming on reading comprehension. Without checking on the students and teachers, you ask the AI agent for recommendations. The AI agent answers quickly and...
The Learning Engine 28 May 2026 One Surface Issue, Two Underlying Challenges: A Diagnostic for Every Instructional Leader Your conversation with a teacher looked productive. The teacher was engaged, asking good questions and leaving with a clear next step. You sat with the notes after the conversation, feeling a disconnect between the productivity in the conversation and what would happen next. There was a pattern from the previous three times together – productive-looking conversations with...