Every Student Deserves A Teacher Who Understands How Learning Happens.
Learning Science Partners works alongside schools, districts, and educational organizations to translate learning science into instructional practices, professional learning, and organizational change to improve student outcomes at scale.
What is learning science?
Who we are
What we do
Resources
Impact
OUR PARTNERS
We support K-12 schools, districts, and education organizations.
What Educators Are Saying About the Work
OUR SERVICES
School & District Partnerships
Our school and district partnerships are deep, durable engagements that last 1–3 years. The longer timeframe allows for sustainable, systemic change.
- Identifying the needs of the system and contextually relevant supports.
- Developing a shared understanding of and language for high-quality teaching across a school or district.
- Empowering instructional leaders to incorporate equity-driven, evidence-informed practices with alignment.
Institutes & Workshops
Our institutes and workshops provide an introduction to the science of learning, exploring how it can shape the decisions teachers and leaders make every day.
Here we explore foundational concepts of the mind so that educators can 'get their hands dirty' with the work of evidence-informed practice. Sessions consider a range of learning science principles, such as:
- How to interpret curricular materials and make them applicable within your context.
- How to plan for instruction that focuses on what students are thinking more than what the teacher is doing.
- How to adapt instructional choices: from effective question formulation and task design, to assessment and feedback.
Leadership & Implementation Support
Our leadership and implementation support work is done shoulder-to-shoulder with leadership teams as they seek to prioritize areas for improvement and embed learning science into their systems and structures over time.
- How to ground school or district resource allocation in an understanding of what we know works and why.
- How to design arcs of high-quality, relevant, and sustainable professional learning, rather than one-off experiences.
- How to build observation, feedback, and evaluation systems informed by the science of learning.
Keynotes & Conferences
Our public speaking offerings include conference keynotes, pre- or post-conference intensives, district events, and PLC gatherings.
We draw on research, classroom examples, and system-level insight to help audiences move beyond enthusiasm for learning science toward clearer thinking about what it requires in practice.
Our services help educators and leaders understand the science of learning and apply it to improve instruction, leadership, and outcomes for every student.
Professional Learning That Moves From Awareness to Systemwide Practice
LEARNING SCIENCE IN ACTION
Learn more about our partnerships on the ground.
DISTRICT PARTNERSHIP
Cicero School District 99
Building district-wide coherence through learning science
Coming Soon!
DISTRICT PARTNERSHIP
Montgomery County Public Schools
Strengthening instructional leaders as learning science change agents at scale
Coming Soon!
Grounded in Research. Shaped by Practice. Focused on Systems.
MEET THE TEAM
Meg and Jim co-founded Learning Science Partners to bring the science of learning into practice.
Dr. Jim Heal
Field leader in bridging the worlds of research and practice in education. Professor of Evidence-Informed Education Leadership. Author of: How Teaching Happens, Mental Models, and Instructional Illusions.
Co-Founder
Meg Lee
Thirty years in public education, from classroom teacher to executive leader. Led evidence-informed professional learning, induction, and organizational development in a large Maryland district.
Co-Founder
Ready to Turn Learning Science into Systemwide Practice?
Let’s design a partnership building on the science of how people actually learn.