About Learnerati
Learnerati is a research driven educational practices company dedicated to creating more effective learning experiences for all students. We focus on the development of intellectual fluidity among students through the innovative matching of learning objectives to instructional processes that promote student reasoning and contextual awareness.
Our work involves helping educators restructure their approach to not only instruction but educational management. We strongly believe that learning is a personal process that most effectively occurs when information, cognition, and self-directed goals coalesce within a contextual setting. Due to this belief and a mounting body of modern research into learning, Learnerati actively incorporates the ongoing collection of data from within classrooms as the formative part of a larger feedback process.
This concept is at the heart of Learnerati. After all, we are a community of learners helping other learners to teach even more learners effectively.
A few past achievements
- Direct Instruction Institute
- 2014: "Crash Course in Cognitive Rigor"
- Arizona Association for Supervision and Curriculum Developers
- 2014: Keynote "Rigorous Instruction"
- Alaska Department of Education & Early Development
- 2010-2011: Training in cognitive rigor and its applications to instruction.
- What Exactly Do "Fewer, Clearer, and Higher Standards" Really Look Like in the Classroom? Using a Cognitive Rigor Matrix to Analyze Curriculum, Plan Lessons, and Implement Assessments
- 2009: Paper on Cognitive Rigor with Karin Hess and John Walkup
- Cognitive Rigor: Blending the Strengths of Bloom's Taxonomy and Webb's Depth of Knowledge to Enhance Classroom-level Processes
- 2009: Paper on Cognitive Rigor with Karin Hess and John Walkup
- End of Course parity studies in Maine
- 2009: Comparing in-year course assignments to end-of-course assessments in terms of alignment and rigor for districts.
- Rigor & Alignment for Oklahoma
- 2009: State-wide curriculum and rigor study of 4000 teachers.
- Congruence Function for Measuring the Extent of Coverage
- 2008: Paper with John Walkup
- Modeling Achievement by Measuring the Enacted Instruction
- 2008: Paper with John Walkup
- Rigor & Alignment for Nevada
- 2008: State-wide curriculum and rigor study of 3500 teachers.
- South Carolina Department of Education
- 2006: Creation of 2500 content standards aligned math exemplars for state math coaches.
- South Carolina Department of Education
- 2005: Alignment and thread mapping to state standards for five adopted series in mathematics.