How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Expanded Edition.

By John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, R. Cocking. 2000

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Practice-Based Professional Development for Self-Regulated Strategies Development in Writing (2012, background): “We, like many in our field, have been concerned with traditional approaches to professional development that are short-term and top down, do not allow teachers to actively engage in the practices they are learning, and do not provide much support during implementation—which is primarily done in isol”
From Coherence in Theory to Coherence in Practice (2006, unknown): “These strategies are a strong means of helping students make initial connections to their own experiences, which then provide opportunities for them to ‘‘transfer’’ their learning to new situations (Bransford et al., 2000).”