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Professional learning for everyone around a learner
The Learning Framework® is one system, built on the neuroscience of learning, that everyone who supports a learner can use. Every partnership begins with The Five Conditions for Learning. Once your group understands the five conditions, we can take on any struggle you are seeing, because each one connects back to one of them. I build every session around the people who will be in the room, so find yourself below. I am based in Chicago, Illinois, and glad to travel. The 2026 to 2027 school year is fully booked, and I am now booking summer 2027 and the 2027 to 2028 school year.
Better together
A year-long partnership for your whole school community
Everyone who has tried to help a struggling learner knows how hard it is when the school, the family, and the specialists are each working from different information. In a full partnership, everyone learns The Learning Framework® in the same school year, so you all share one common language, built on the neuroscience of learning, and can finally work together. This is how we reach the learners who have been the hardest to reach for the longest time.
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Educators
An opening-day keynote and a full day of learning, then workshops, coaching, and return visits on your in-service days, so the learning builds all year.
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Leaders
Leadership coaching to align your MTSS, intervention planning, and student problem-solving systems with the neuroscience of learning, so you can respond with more precision.
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Families
An evening parent series in the same school year, using the same common language.
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Learners
Student sessions in the structure that works best for your school, from an assembly to student workshops.
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Specialists
Support for specialists and practitioners who work with students in more specific ways, with school plans aligned to home plans.
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Lasting capacity
A smaller cohort learns to lead the work, so it continues in a train-the-trainer model.
Every offering is also available on its own
Educators, specialists, and practitioners
A shared model of how learning happens in the brain, so every conversation about a learner starts from the same understanding. School psychologists, therapists, social workers, coaches, and other specialists are welcome in every session.
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Full day
The Five Conditions for Learning
Through a hands-on simulation, staff experience the five conditions every brain needs in order to learn, then learn to see which condition is not being met for a learner.
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Full day
Managing Your Executive Functions
Educators learn what executive function is, name the five skills inside it, and experience their own executive functions at work in a hands-on lab, then plan an executive function routine to use with their class.
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Workshop days or year-long cohort
CREATE the Conditions for Learning
The planning practice that builds the conditions for learning into instruction, including how the brain's functions develop from birth to adulthood. Also offered as a 4-day Summer 2027 Institute in Chicago.
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Length customized to your schedule
Sessions on one question
Remembering, attention, homework, impulse control, emotions and learning, motivation, agency, perseverance, or sleep, each built around your staff and the learners they teach.
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Customized to the ages you teach, or birth to 26
The Developmental Progressions Series
What to expect from the brain at each age and stage, so expectations and supports match where learners are in their development.
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Across your system
Retreat day or multi-session series
Leadership teams and committees
I partner with leaders and school committees to build a shared understanding across the district. Leadership coaching aligns your MTSS, intervention planning, and student problem-solving systems with the neuroscience of learning, so you can respond with more precision.
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Coaches, consultants, and specialists in their own practice
If you already work with learners and families on your own, as an executive function coach, student coach, tutor, therapist, or consultant, you can learn The Learning Framework® and use it with every client. You keep the tools and methods you already use, and you connect them to the neuroscience of learning. Your clients, their families, and their schools can then share one common language for what the learner needs.
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Small-group cohort or one-on-one
Learn the framework
You experience The Five Conditions for Learning, learn to see which condition is not being met for a client, and plan how you will explain the five conditions to the learners and families you work with.
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Scheduled around your practice
Consultation for your practice
We look at the way you work with clients now, connect your sessions and tools to the five conditions, and plan how you will share the framework with each learner and family.
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One evening or a series, in person or virtual
Sessions for the families you serve
I teach an evening talk or the Developmental Progressions Series for your client families, so they hear the same language at home that they hear from you.
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The whole system
4 days, summer 2027
The Summer 2027 Institute
Four days in Chicago to learn the five conditions, how to CREATE them, and what to expect from the brain at every age from birth to 26. Every attendee receives a 1-year membership to TheLearningFramework.org.
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Parents and caregivers
Plain-language explanations of what is happening in your child's brain, with everyday ways to support it at home.
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One evening, in person or virtual
An evening talk
One evening for a parent group or PTO on a single question, such as attention, remembering, or executive function, with something to try at home that week.
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Five evenings, in person
The Caregiver Series
Five evenings, one for each of the five conditions, so home and school can share the same language about learning.
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Customized to your child's age, or birth to 26
The Developmental Progressions Series
What to expect from your child's brain at each age and stage, so you know what they are ready for and how to support the next step.
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Children, teens, and adults
Learners who understand how their own brain works can see what helps them and ask for it.
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Scoped to age and setting
How your brain learns
Sessions for learners on what helps them pay attention, remember, and get started, and how to use it in their own work.
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One-on-one
Scheduled around the learner
1:1 coaching
Coaching for learners of any age, often called executive function coaching. Together we find what helps their brain plan, get started, and follow through, and build routines that fit their life.
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Event planners and organizers
Talks that explain the neuroscience in plain language and leave every listener with simple strategies to use immediately.
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Keynote
Scoped to your event
Any topic in the neuroscience of learning
I give keynotes on any topic related to the neuroscience of learning, and I work with you to tailor each one to your audience and your event. Popular choices include The Five Conditions for Learning, executive function, attention, motivation, remembering, and emotions and learning.
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Develop your understanding so you can choose a better response
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