Seek Learning

Damon L. Bahr, EdD
 Associate Professor, Teacher Education, Brigham Young University

"The Supreme Court said in 1962, we can't teach about God in America's public schools. But they didn't say we couldn't teach in God's way. When we're teaching in His way, the lives of people change, whether they're a nine-year-old or a five-year-old in kindergarten. It's amazing to watch children's lives change or adults lives change when we teach in His way." 

Liz Darger, MS
Senior Associate Athletic Director, Brigham Young University 

"When I am really having deep dialogue about about important matters, where I may have a different perspective, if there's a bedrock relationship there of trust and respect, then we are able to share more of what we believe."

Juan Freire, PhD

Assistant Professor, Teacher Education, Brigham Young University 

"We value multilingualism, but we need to place the same emphasis for language minority communities. We want everybody to learn to be multilingual, but we don't want the multilingualism to be removed from multilingual communities and be somehow stolen, if you will, by language majority communities."

David Barney, EdD

Associate Professor, Teacher Education, Brigham Young University

"The research is showing that when kids are physically active, when they get back into the class they're better readers, they're better at math, they're better behaved."

Richard West, PhD

Associate professor, Instructional Psychology & Technology, Brigham Young University

“At the core learning is learning, so whether you get a degree, or whether you get a diploma, or whether you get a micro-credential, I don’t know if that changes—too much—who you are.”

Cally Flox, MEd
Director BYU Arts Partnership, Brigham Young University

"Our opportunity is to help children find their own voice. And when they find their own voice through the arts, then we want to give them enough information so they have something meaningful to say. Then we want to give them enough skills so they can say it in a beautiful and effective way."

Timothy Smith, PhD

Professor, Counseling Psychology and Special Education, Brigham Young University

"As much as we'd like to believe that it's all about doing what we can individually, we actually need to look at contexts and relationships. And where faith comes in, is the recognition that we are all interdependent. The very assertion that we can do it ourselves is actually against the notion of faith."

Ryan Kellems, PhD
Associate Professor, Counseling Psychology and Special Education, Brigham Young University
“I think it’s just a matter of looking at and knowing the child—whether you’re a parent, whether you’re a grandparent, or an educator—and really taking the time to find out what (that) child’s strengths are. How do we build upon those strengths to give them a meaningful life?”

Gary Seastrand, PhD
Associate Clinical Professor, Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling
"One of our basic principles is the notion that we prepare young people to become future citizens in our community, and state nation, and...they learn how to share or how to respect each other or how to take responsibility for their own behavior."

Donald Baum, PhD
Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Foundations, Brigham Young University

“When we're talking about (early childhood) education, it's not just the academic, it's not just the cognitive learning that's taking place….One of the key priorities is that students are developing social skills, they're developing emotionally in ways that we would like them to. That requires a lot of interaction with other students.”