Practically Learning

16/09/2026

Memory isn't just about repetition — it's about how information first enters the brain and is then processed and shared or implemented.

Some of the strongest recall I see comes from connecting new information to the senses: sight, sound, touch, even smell. A story remembered through a song. A sequence remembered through movement. A word remembered because it was built out of Lego first.

When a child struggles to remember something "the normal way," the answer usually isn't to drill harder — it's to find a different sense to hook the memory onto.

Once a child discovers which sense works best for them, something bigger shifts: they stop thinking "I have a bad memory" and start thinking "I remember things through sound" or "I remember things through movement." This is the beginning of genuine self-awareness as a learner.

This is about teaching children how their brain works and how to take control of their brain before it takes control of them - learning how to learn smarter not harder. Exploring the senses in how we learn is so effective because it can also be connected with our wellbeing.

If you're interested to learn more about how and why we support children's learning and amplify their human intelligence through cognitive development, click here: https://meetings.hubspot.com/meet-rachel-stewart/30-minutes?uuid=930cd2c3-a297-4627-847b-c11f20313fd8 to book a free information session or send me a DM with the word 'Memory'.

13/08/2026

The research across Australia is staggering.

47% of Australian children entering school are not developmentally on track across all five key domains.

10–16% of all students have learning difficulties that need support beyond what a classroom can provide.

89% of students with disability attend mainstream schools — where specialist cognitive support is typically unavailable.

These are not abstract numbers.

They are children sitting in classrooms and homes right now — without the specific support their brains actually need.

And many parents are struggling to know what that support looks like. Because nobody has ever shown them specifically why their child is falling behind - the science behind this changes everyone's perspective!

I invite you to discover how cognitive skills shape everything your child does at school and at home— and how to find out which skills your child may need to develop.

Providing child with an Amplify Learning Abilities Screener will reveal 10 core cognitive areas of their learning that no school report or Naplan result will provide. When your child completes the online screener, you’ll receive a free personalised report, delivered to you online to discuss the results and next steps.

👉 Learn more here: https://practicallylearning.com.au/amplify-learning-abilities-screener/

This is for every parent — whether your child is thriving, struggling, neurodiverse or gifted. Understanding how their brain works and how they learn changes everything!

13/08/2026

Today my students did something I want every parent to see.

They were challenged to remember 16 words using different memory strategies. They had learned several strategies over the term and now was a chance to put them into practice.

And they did it! They remembered all 16 words.

Then they were asked to build a special memory using Lego.

Not just because it's fun — although it absolutely is.

Because when you engage creativity, colours, shapes, stories, imagination and feeling simultaneously, you activate five different memory pathways at once.

That's not just a craft activity. That's neuroscience.

This is the kind of learning that changes how a child experiences their own brain.

And it's the foundation of something I'm building for children and adults alike — Amplify Your Memory.

More soon. 💛

If you'd like to learn more about our kids short course on memory skills, come along to my Amplify Your Child's Learning Potential information session.

Learn more and register here: https://practicallylearning.com.au/amplify-your-childs-learning-potential-parent-information-session/

Two session times:
Thursday 13th August 7PM AEST (Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney)
Saturday 15th August 2PM AEST (Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney)

12/08/2026

Learning can be a struggle if you don’t know what the challenges are and if children are not taught strategies to support their brain to learn.

When children are empowered with the skills to understand how they learn and how their brain works, learning becomes more engaging, fun and easy.

I’m sharing some of these strategies in a live information session for parents and if you’re a parent of a child in school in Australia, you’re invited!

Amplify Your Child’s Learning Potential - The Neuroscience of Learning
Parent Information Session

Two sessions available:
Thursday 13th August at 7PM or
Saturday 15th August at 2PM

Go to https://practicallylearning.com.au/amplify-your-childs-learning-potential-parent-information-session/ to learn more and register for this free live session for Australian parents and carers.

08/08/2026

The 2026 NAPLAN results are in — and the headlines are grim yet again. One in three Australian students still failing to meet benchmarks. Year 3 numeracy is at its lowest since 2023. An ongoing conversation about who is to blame: teachers blaming parents, parents blaming schools, governments pointing at each other.

And in the middle of all of it — children. Quietly struggling. Often for reasons nobody has yet identified.

Here's what NAPLAN doesn't tell you.
Read full article by clicking the link below:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/naplan-results-once-again-were-missing-point-rachel-stewart-vbqvc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via

Free Information sessions coming up in this month:
Parents/Carers: https://practicallylearning.com.au/amplify-your-childs-learning-potential-parent-information-session/

Schools: https://practicallylearning.com.au/amplify-cognitive-certification-school-information-session/

The 2026 NAPLAN results are out — and the headlines are grim. One in three Australian students are still failing to meet benchmarks.

16/06/2026

This is for the teacher who lies awake at 2am.
Not because you’re stressed about your workload.

Because you’re thinking about a child.

The one whose home situation broke your heart this week. The one who came in Monday with severe anxiety. The one who sat at the back and said nothing — and who is still sitting in the back of your mind at 2am on a Wednesday.

You’re not on the verge of burnout because you don’t care.
It’s because you care so much — and nobody has ever taught you how to carry that load without letting it consume you.

You absorb the dysregulation of every struggling student. You feel the weight of every difficult parent conversation in your body for days. You take on the emotional atmosphere of the staffroom, the anxiety of leadership, the needs of colleagues who are also drowning.

You are often doing this alone. Quietly trying to cope without revealing how much you are actually struggling.

You are the empaths of the profession.
And teachers like you are disappearing from teaching at an alarming rate — not because the job broke them, but because they were never given the tools to protect themselves inside it.

Our Amplify Your Energy Masterclass Series was built for exactly this teacher. For you. To make sure you have the tools to stay in the profession you care about.

I’m seeking a small group of teachers to become founding members of this unique masterclass designed specifically for you.

To teach you how to be the lighthouse — shining fully, consistently, without burning yourself out in the process.
Four x 60 minute sessions - over 4 weeks. July 26. Online. $97 AUD.

International teachers welcome — replays included for every time zone.
Perfect to complete during your school break to prepare for the rest of this year.
If this is you — or someone you know — follow this link to learn more and enrol in this not to be missed opportunity - Click on the Amplify Your Energy masterclass link here: https://practicallylearning.com.au/masterclasses/teacher-reset-3-week-masterclass/ 💛

08/05/2026

Teachers, has anyone ever taught you about cognitive empathy?

It's possible it comes naturally to you or perhaps you once had this innate quality about you. Maybe it got lost amongst all the systems, structures and compliances in education, that overtook what you feel and why you decided to become a teacher in the first place.

You care about children. You want to support them and guide them, to help them uncover their true potential.

But you feel bogged down by the routine, the paperwork, the constant battles with students, and the expectations on you. This has you feeling down about yourself.

If you are not showing yourself cognitive empathy, how can this translate into your classroom?

I'm offering you an escape for 3 hours to just focus on yourself for a change.
To uncover information about you that you have never been shown.

This 3 x 1 hour session masterclass is designed to support you to understand yourself so that you can manage when things become challenging, when your day goes completely off track and all your plans go out the window. To be able to cope with uncertainties, with behaviours of others' you don't understand, to be able to remain the steady ship in the storm.

This is what is required of you as an educator now. Yes, it's alot. But it is manageable and there is support.

Join me for this unique masterclass to Amplify Your Energy; starting next Thursday 14th May at 7.30PM.

Click here to learn more and register: https://practicallylearning.com.au/masterclasses/teacher-reset-3-week-masterclass/

It's time to focus on your own personal development. You don't need to wait for permission when your health and wellbeing is affected. This life is your path. You get to decide how you want to walk it.

Click here to learn more and register: https://practicallylearning.com.au/masterclasses/teacher-reset-3-week-masterclass/

06/05/2026

If you're a parent living in Australia and you're not curious about how your child learns and why they are struggling at school, how are you able to support them?

This is not a guilt trip by any means, more like a message of warning that your child may be one of the 47% of children in Australian schools who are not developmentally on track. That's nearly half of all students across Australia! Their cognitive learning gaps may be going unnoticed, or worse, being ignored.

You know that feeling as a parent when you know something isn't quite right but you don't know who to ask for help, or you've asked questions but have been told not to worry, your child will catch up when they are ready.

I'm giving you permission to listen to your intuition, to trust your inner guidance that is telling you, there is more to it.

Join me this Saturday for a one hour information session where I'll lift the lid on how children learn, why they may be struggling or going under the radar and how you can support their cognitive foundations.

Register free now and you'll receive a free Amplify Learning Abilities Screener for your child for registering and attending.

When: Saturday 9th May
Time: 10.00am-11.am
Register free at: https://share.hsforms.com/1SXjrcNG5S3aZBsVC7em7mQq6t2s

05/05/2026

Are you a parent who is waking in the night worrying about how to get your child to school each day? Are you wondering what you’ve done wrong and blaming yourself? Are you worried they are falling behind and every time you try to find out why, you are still left with questions?

I’m here to tell you that no one is to blame. But there is a reason why your child may be struggling, misbehaving, be misunderstood by teachers or simply not focused at school.

As a parent of three children myself, I often found it frustrating that I didn’t know more about how my children learn and how to support them. This is why I’m so passionate about helping you understand these things that no one else will tell you. Join me for a free information session, where I’ll lift the lid on what you should know about your child, how they learn and how gaps in their cognitive abilities can impact their learning capacity. Register free at https://share.hsforms.com/1SXjrcNG5S3aZBsVC7em7mQq6t2s.

15/04/2026

I'm going to be totally honest with you. When I began teaching in 2007, I had no idea how much energy it would take out of me. It literally took the wind out of me. I was teaching up to 80 students each week, all of whom I had a vested interest in supporting. I felt responsible for them. Maybe because I care too much. That was a turning point in my career.

While teaching young adult students, I noticed something shocking. Many of them had very little skills in writing and presenting and had little interest in improving themselves, it shocked me.

That's why I've been working diligently since then to make sure no child misses out on realising their potential.

As teachers you have such a huge responsibility to make sure of this, and it can weigh extremely heavily on you.

Your brain processes over 35,000 decisions a day as a teacher. That's more than a surgeon or an air traffic controller!

Yet we send teachers into classrooms with no neuroscience training, no cognitive reset tools, and into highly stressful situations.

The exhaustion you feel isn't weakness. It's your brain telling you it needs a reset.

Here's the fastest one I learned from extensive training of my own brain and learning from the best of the best coaches in the world — I call it the Rapid Human Intelligence Reset: or RHI Reset

Learning about how your brain and mind works is my passion and it is for this one reason - when you take back control of your mind instead of allowing it to control you, you amplify your human intelligence to be able to manage in highly stressful situations.

How do I know this works? I've transformed myself and I've helped many of my own clients experience this transformation. It all comes back to observing your mind and rewiring the neural pathways in your brain that hold you back from being the best version of you, in any situation.

I'm sharing what I know works in my three week masterclass, starting this Thursday 16th April at 7.30pm.

If you want to thrive in your very important role as an educator, I suggest you don't hesitate to take the chance to learn something about yourself.

Your energy is your currency and it is sacred. It must be protected, nurtured but also shared in a way that benefits you and your students. When you learn to manage your mind, you also learn to manage your energy.

What you'll learn during our three sessions together:
Week 1: Amplify Your Energy
The neuroscience of stress — identifying what's actually happening in your brain and how to manage and release energy that causes stress

Week 2: Amplify Your Intelligence — Rewire stress into strength
Identifying which cognitive functions are impacted by stress and learn cognitive reframing techniques

Week 3: Amplify Your Impact — Build your Teacher Resilience Blueprint. Leave with a whole book of strategies to keep using.

You won't regret investing in yourself by taking action!

Register now at https://practicallylearning.com.au/masterclasses/teacher-reset-3-week-masterclass/