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Red House Learning founder, Bill Rich, helps educators and their students use what we know about the brain to inform what we do in the classroom. Bill specializes in working long-term with schools , supporting their efforts to begin operating in ways more compatible with how people learn. He also Co-Directs What's the Story? with Tim O'Leary, and he team teaches Learning Lab VT with Susan Hennessey.
Regardless of the setting or his students, Bill's medium is his message. Learning with Bill helps people of all ages reconnect with how great learning can get, when conditions work with, rather than against, why and how people learn. To learn more, check out this site's welcome page. |
Testimonials
One of Bill's greatest strengths is his ability to listen to understand the learning needs of people he works with. This allows him to tailor opportunities so that people can truly engage in the content. Furthermore, Bill creates a warm learning environment that allows people to share ideas freely and ask meaningful questions. Oftentimes, I have educators asking when our next session with Bill will be.
Mike Moriarty
Director of Instruction, OCSU
Bill's coaching is an ongoing conversation about how to design learning in ways that are clear and that get students "in the game". He taught high school for 15 years so he knows the classroom well and can help imagine and reimagine how to make learning meaningful and worthwhile. His sense of humor and easy way allow me to feel comfortable starting wherever I am when we begin something new.
Kate Toland
Educator at Peoples Academy
We have been fortunate enough to work with Bill for multiple years. His ability to gauge where your organization and teachers are on the continuum of readiness for implementing brain-based principles allows for maximum professional growth that sticks. The evidence of the impact of our work with him is evident in all six of our schools. Teachers and building leaders view their work with a different lens than they did prior to working with him. Our instructional vocabulary is aligned and our system is much more coherent than it has ever been before.
Skyler LoBombard
Director of Teaching and Learning
Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union
I have had the privilege of working with Bill Rich on several occasions over the past decade or more. Bill is a difference-maker in helping teachers design for learning in ways that increase engagement and ultimately improve student understanding. His expertise in brain-based teaching and learning (a.k.a. “the science”) is unmatched. But that’s not the magic. Bill cultivates true transformation by guiding teachers and administrators through purposeful reflection, deep analysis, and school redesign to create systems that truly align with the principles of deeper learning and equitable outcomes. I couldn’t possibly have imagined how profoundly Bill’s work would positively impact students and staff--myself included.
Sheila Soule
Superintendent of Schools
Addison Northwest School District
Bill Rich was a pivotal professional partner in making transformative changes truly successful for our middle/secondary school. Bill infuses his renowned pedagogical expertise with professional respect and candor that builds trust and fidelity in learning communities. Our partnership with Bill Rich helped put our school on an exciting journey in overhauling teaching and learning.
Sam Krotinger
Principal, Warren School
Master teacher, builder of powerful, long lasting relationships, designer of learning for teachers, student of neuroscience, and integrator of technology, Bill Rich brings a plethora of talents to any work that he does. First and foremost, Bill is a master teacher. He has a calling to the work of teaching. Bill’s ability to quickly build and sustain positive, powerful, lasting relationships with people is marvelous. As a result, he connects with all types of learners – eager and reluctant, young and mature.
Bill draws on an extensive background in the brain and how it impacts teacher practice. When teachers and administrators attend sessions with Bill, they are treated to practical applications of brain-based principles of learning and they also see a master at work in modeling those practices. No matter what the venue, anyone who works with Bill experiences first hand the power of brain based principles in action.
Bill is nimble but clear, flexible but grounded in what has been defined as the goals of the work. No matter what the challenge, Bill sees opportunity and brings a joyful, can-do, “in service to the learner” attitude to the work.
Val Gardner
Gardner Educational Consulting, LLC
I live in Westford, Vermont with Emily Rinkema and our two dogs, Frankie and Chet, and our anti-social cat, Jack Reacher. When not thinking about education, you can find me fishing on one of our local rivers, playing guitar, or cooking and eating great food.
One of Bill's greatest strengths is his ability to listen to understand the learning needs of people he works with. This allows him to tailor opportunities so that people can truly engage in the content. Furthermore, Bill creates a warm learning environment that allows people to share ideas freely and ask meaningful questions. Oftentimes, I have educators asking when our next session with Bill will be.
Mike Moriarty
Director of Instruction, OCSU
Bill's coaching is an ongoing conversation about how to design learning in ways that are clear and that get students "in the game". He taught high school for 15 years so he knows the classroom well and can help imagine and reimagine how to make learning meaningful and worthwhile. His sense of humor and easy way allow me to feel comfortable starting wherever I am when we begin something new.
Kate Toland
Educator at Peoples Academy
We have been fortunate enough to work with Bill for multiple years. His ability to gauge where your organization and teachers are on the continuum of readiness for implementing brain-based principles allows for maximum professional growth that sticks. The evidence of the impact of our work with him is evident in all six of our schools. Teachers and building leaders view their work with a different lens than they did prior to working with him. Our instructional vocabulary is aligned and our system is much more coherent than it has ever been before.
Skyler LoBombard
Director of Teaching and Learning
Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union
I have had the privilege of working with Bill Rich on several occasions over the past decade or more. Bill is a difference-maker in helping teachers design for learning in ways that increase engagement and ultimately improve student understanding. His expertise in brain-based teaching and learning (a.k.a. “the science”) is unmatched. But that’s not the magic. Bill cultivates true transformation by guiding teachers and administrators through purposeful reflection, deep analysis, and school redesign to create systems that truly align with the principles of deeper learning and equitable outcomes. I couldn’t possibly have imagined how profoundly Bill’s work would positively impact students and staff--myself included.
Sheila Soule
Superintendent of Schools
Addison Northwest School District
Bill Rich was a pivotal professional partner in making transformative changes truly successful for our middle/secondary school. Bill infuses his renowned pedagogical expertise with professional respect and candor that builds trust and fidelity in learning communities. Our partnership with Bill Rich helped put our school on an exciting journey in overhauling teaching and learning.
Sam Krotinger
Principal, Warren School
Master teacher, builder of powerful, long lasting relationships, designer of learning for teachers, student of neuroscience, and integrator of technology, Bill Rich brings a plethora of talents to any work that he does. First and foremost, Bill is a master teacher. He has a calling to the work of teaching. Bill’s ability to quickly build and sustain positive, powerful, lasting relationships with people is marvelous. As a result, he connects with all types of learners – eager and reluctant, young and mature.
Bill draws on an extensive background in the brain and how it impacts teacher practice. When teachers and administrators attend sessions with Bill, they are treated to practical applications of brain-based principles of learning and they also see a master at work in modeling those practices. No matter what the venue, anyone who works with Bill experiences first hand the power of brain based principles in action.
Bill is nimble but clear, flexible but grounded in what has been defined as the goals of the work. No matter what the challenge, Bill sees opportunity and brings a joyful, can-do, “in service to the learner” attitude to the work.
Val Gardner
Gardner Educational Consulting, LLC
I live in Westford, Vermont with Emily Rinkema and our two dogs, Frankie and Chet, and our anti-social cat, Jack Reacher. When not thinking about education, you can find me fishing on one of our local rivers, playing guitar, or cooking and eating great food.
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