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Is Learning a Full Body Experience?

What if learning isn't just happening between our ears?

For generations, we've designed classrooms around a familiar formula: sit still, face forward, and let your mind do the heavy lifting. It's a model that treats students almost like computers, passively processing information—or as Susan Hrach puts it, "brains on sticks."

But learning is far more dynamic, shaped not just by what happens in our heads, but by our bodies, emotions, and the environments around us.

In this episode of Higher Learnings, educator and author Susan Hrach draws on her book Minding Bodies to explore how physical…

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