Speaker Topics and Proposals

Clerestory Learning is all about lasting learning, so our presentations directly or indirectly embrace this objective consistently. You’ll find a few topics we have developed for larger audiences based on our recent studies. This larger setting is familiar and inspiring to us, so if you’re looking for something a little different from what you find here, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Potential: Defining, Aligning, Pursuing

Explores two key attributes of flourishing organizations and individuals.
Foundational, informative, and inspiring.

Suitable for educators and general audiences, keynote presentation

Teaching for Lasting Learning

Examines the critical two-stage process of reflection frequently left out of classroom instruction. Defines understanding, clarifying the differences between it and factual recall. Examines the role of working memory activity in learning and the instructional elements that engage such cognition.

Best presented as a general session but may also comprise
workshop/breakout sessions

Suitable for educators, keynote presentations, 2-hour workshops

Creativity: Learning’s Complementary Process

Explores the recent discoveries of shared neurological systems between learning and creativity. Examines the role creativity plays in learning, especially in deepening understanding of critical concepts. Surveys the remarkable parallels and differences between learning and creating processes.

Works best in workshop/breakout sessions

Suitable for educators and general audiences, keynote presentations, 2-hour workshops

The Architecture of Learning: An Overview

Provides a survey of the instructional design model based on neurocognitive research. Explores the relationships of learning, teaching, and assessment. Presents a simulated Architecture of Learning unit and examines several examples of instruction designed on the model.

Works best in workshop/breakout sessions

Suitable for educators