Start with the person.
The learner’s experience, context, and goals should shape the design. Before deciding what to teach, understand who is learning and what success would mean for them.
RelationshipsLearner context
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY / DESIGN FOR PEOPLE
LESS PASSIVE.
MORE POSSIBLE.
My approach to learning starts with people, connects to real practice, and leaves room for curiosity, agency, and joy.
Don’t just add information.
Build the ability to use it.
A working principle across teaching, coaching, onboarding, and professional development.
Six principles
What that looks like
in practice.
The setting may change. These are the ideas I keep coming back to.
Let people do the learning.
Build opportunities to explore, make decisions, practice, and reflect. A learning experience should ask people to participate—not simply sit through a presentation.
Active learningStudent voice
Design for life beyond the lesson.
Start with what people need to do in the real world. Then connect the task, the feedback, and the practice so the learning has somewhere useful to go.
TransferPurposeful practice
Make room for more people.
Equity means looking at who can participate, who feels capable, and whose interests are represented. Offer different entry points without losing sight of the purpose.
EquityInclusive design
Use evidence. Stay curious.
Research and data inform the starting point. Observation and feedback help improve what comes next. Treat the design as something to learn from, not something to defend.
ResearchReflection
Keep the joy in it.
Especially in movement, the long-term goal is more than performing one skill. Build competence, confidence, and the motivation to keep participating.
Physical literacyPlay
From philosophy to practice
The test is
what people can do.
These principles show up in a movement program built around student voice, a competency-based learning system for educators, and onboarding lessons that help customers put a tool to use.
The work is different. The question is the same: what would make this more meaningful, more usable, and more likely to carry into practice?
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