BrightBow Learning
BrightBow Learning is a learning design studio built for educators at every level: the classroom, the consulting room, and the computer screen.
Everything here is built for adult learners, because adults learn differently and that difference deserves better design.
BrightBow courses are structured, grounded in adult learning theory, and built to revisit.
And because learning happens in real conditions, not ideal ones, BrightBow in the Wild is here too. Practical, funny resources for the moments that don't make it into any professional development catalog.
Every BrightBow lesson moves through three phases, in sequence and on purpose. Here’s what that looks like in practice.
Foundation
Prepare for meaningful engagement
Adults need relevance before they engage with new content. Foundation brings forward what learners already know, connects the work to what actually matters, and creates shared language before anything new is introduced.
Experience
Build understanding through exploration
Adults learn by doing, not by receiving. Experience builds understanding through guided exploration and practice in conditions that feel like real work, so ideas become usable, not just understood.
Integration
Support transfer into real practice
A single encounter is rarely enough to change how someone works. Integration creates the conditions for learning to carry forward, return, and take hold in real practice over time.
Click here to learn more about how I use the adult learning theory in everything I design.
BrightBow Courses
Making Learning Stick is an audio and video course for facilitators and course creators, built on a structured design arc grounded in adult learning theory. This package includes everything you need to move through the course: a Start Here guide to orient you before you begin, audio and video access links, a companion workbook designed to work alongside the course and stand on its own, and a reference card you can return to long after the course ends.
From Compliance to Commitment is an audio and video course for facilitators and course creators, built on a structured design arc grounded in adult learning theory. This package includes everything you need to move through the course: a Start Here guide to orient you before you begin, audio and video access links, a companion workbook designed to work alongside the course and stand on its own, and a reference card you can return to long after the course ends.
Click here for the facilitator guides for these courses and lead them yourself!
Every BrightBow lesson is both a learning experience and a design model. If you work in adult learning, you can go through it as a participant and study it as a practitioner.
Built for the people who build the learning, whatever it looks like.
Online Course Creators
You’re building courses for people you may never meet in person, and you care whether what you create actually works.
BrightBow is grounded in adult learning theory and built to show what that looks like in practice, so your courses do more than deliver content. They create the conditions for real understanding.
Professional Learning Designers
You might be a facilitator, consultant, instructional coach, or learning leader. The challenge is the same. You are responsible for learning that produces real change, and you know the difference between a session that felt good and one that actually stuck.
BrightBow gives you a clearer, more grounded understanding of what makes learning work, so that difference shows up in everything you design.
25+ years in education, all of it on purpose.
I spent 25 years in education as a teacher, librarian, systems specialist, and learning experience designer. I’ve sat in every seat in the room and spent years figuring out what actually works and what doesn’t.
BrightBow came from that work, and from deciding it was time to take the design of adult learning as seriously as the content itself.
See how it's built.
Start with one lesson.
Each one is a complete learning experience built on adult learning principles.
You can move through it as a participant, use it with a team, or study it as a design model. Either way, you leave with something usable.
Lessons releasing throughout 2026