Seek Learning

Russell T. Osguthorpe, PhD - Retired professor, Instructional Psychology and Technology, and administrator, Brigham Young University; former mission president, area seventy, and Sunday School General President for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 
“The Lord is helping us understand that learning is not a side interest. Learning is not something that we kind of include in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It's central. How can we develop as a people if we do not learn? It is right in the middle of everything.”

Tina Taylor, PhD
Associate Dean, McKay School of Education; Professor, Counseling Psychology & Special Education, Brigham Young University

“They are more than their disability. They are people who love outer space, who love birds, who love dancing and pretty clothes. They are human beings who happen to have disabilities.”

Ryan Nixon, PhD
Professor, Teacher Education, Brigham Young University

"Before you use Pinterest, think in advance about what it is you want your kids to learn and what you want them to be thinking about...If you don't have a decent idea of what your instructional goal is, there's a ton of stuff on Pinterest, and you can scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll. It's much more likely for you to be sucked into that if you don't really know what you're looking for, if you don't know what your goal is."

Paul Ricks, PhD 
Professor, Teacher Education, Brigham Young University 

“Books can be mirrors for us where they reflect our own experience. They can be windows, where I can see through them and start to understand somebody else. But they can also be sliding glass doors, where I can walk into this world that is unlike mine, and actually live in it. To me, that’s the great potential of the written word.”

Ellie Young, PhD
Professor, Counseling Psychology and Special Education, Brigham Young University 
"We may need to move beyond what we traditionally have done and look at how is this working. Could school counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists come together in different ways to support administrators and teachers?"

Sarah Clark , PhD
Professor, Teacher Education, Brigham Young University

"What I wish I could do is talk to them from their child's birth, instilling the desire to read and to engage with them. Not the skills, not to read a certain amount, but to read with wonder. To show or talk with them about books that you're reading, even though they're not at the level of the child. Get them to see you read."

David Boren, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor, Education Leadership & Foundations, Brigham Young University

"I realized, these are God's children in this class, these 25 to 30 kiddos. And their unique situations and challenges...they were His long before they were mine. And He cares deeply about them. So I will partner with Him, and rely on Him."

Royce Kimmons, PhD
Associate Professor, Instructional Psychology and Technology, Brigham Young University

"This idea of continuous improvement means when we create a resource, we don't just publish it once and then walk away. But rather, we view these materials as dynamic and living things that should be constantly updated and constantly improved."

Bryant Jensen, PhD
 Associate Professor, Teacher Education and Educational Inquiry, Measurement, and Evaluation, Brigham Young University

“Encouraging students to respond to one another’s ideas and allowing unsolicited questions; these are the sorts of things that teachers can do to have conversations that are more connected.”

David Waddell, MA
Director, Office of Experiential Learning, Brigham Young University

"That's one of the problems with the way we teach. We teach a subject. We don't teach how to view the world, or to affect the world, or to solve problems in the world, through a subject. And that's the beauty of experiential learning."