Understanding Grows Through Use, Not Exposure In professional learning, we often behave as though exposure equals understanding. Slides are shared. Concepts are explained. Time is spent. And when learning doesn’t show up in practice, the explanation is often simple: the content was delivered, and the responsibility is assumed to be complete. But understanding does not come from being told. It comes from use. A persistent assumption in professional learning is that teaching is

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