Seek Learning

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.”

Charles Graham, PhD
Professor, Instructional Psychology & Technology, Brigham Young University

“The new normal is going to be a blended environment where teachers, and schools, and parents, have a toolbox that includes in-person learning options, as well as online learning options, and sometimes a mix of the two. . . .If teachers and parents are not trained, and don't have some understanding of how to make the online learning space effective, it's not going to be as effective.”

Peter Chan, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Instructional Psychology & Technology, Brigham Young University

“Before I joined the Church, I was a very bad student. I didn't study. I wasn't interested in schooling. . . .But then I joined the church, and that totally changed me. . . .From a near school dropout, to today. I have lectured in many places, international conferences, and even some prestigious universities. If I go back to my high school [in China], and tell my teachers what I'm doing now, I don't think they will believe it.”

Rachel Wadham, MA
Education and Juvenile Collections Librarian, Senior Librarian, Brigham Young University

“I truly believe that children's literature, and particularly children's fiction, and all of that type of thing that encompasses story, is really important to an educational experience. . . . If we all think about how we learn and how we learn best, we can connect that to story.”

A. LeGrand “Buddy” Richards, PhD
Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Foundations, Brigham Young University

“I think he would probably talk to [today’s] teachers and say, ‘Don't be so wrapped up in the world's way of doing things...keep your perspective right. You've got the promises of eternity.”