Most people know what they want to learn—but not how to learn it. We help you learn.

To overcome overwhelm, manage competing priorities, and succeed above satisfactory level learning, you don’t need to master everything at once—you need to move through the six stages of knowledge production, intentionally and consistently. These stages are a daily compass for thinking, studying, and creating with purpose.

Main Message: These moves are for long term gains. Make one move a week to continuously expand and refine your truth in meaningful ways. 🚀

🧭 6 Big Picture Stages

So start with Stage 1: Form questions, seek gaps, and engage curiosity—it grounds your learning in purpose. Then Stage 2: Gather, evaluate, and organize information gives structure to the chaos. Stage 3: Make meaning, build insight, and shape understanding helps you connect ideas instead of memorizing facts. In Stage 4, you share your ideas clearly, powerfully, and accessibly, transforming private thought into public contribution. With Stage 5: Deepen insight, track growth, and sustain learning, you monitor your progress and avoid burnout. Finally, Stage 6: Create and share knowledge with others reinforces mastery through collaboration and impact.

These aren’t steps you “complete”—they’re daily moves you cycle through, adjusting as needed. Practiced regularly, they train your brain to think critically, reflect deeply, and stay focused, even when deadlines and demands pile up. Master the cycle, and you master the overwhelm. It's not about doing more—it’s about learning smarter, one stage at a time

🧭 Why the 52 Moves Are More for me

As a Canadian Immigrant who teaches in higher education, I’ve noticed the are not actively taught about how to learn. My personal story—as a student, a teacher, and family man—is shaped by navigating different systems of meaning, identity, and resilience. The 52 Moves framework is my way of capturing the deep, often invisible, process behind learning.

These 52 Moves are not just a study method. They are my details: distilled from my experience as an educator helping students unlock their thinking, understand their patterns, and push through doubt. The focus on 52 is related to 52 weeks in a year as you probably gathered by now. 😀 This is a nod to life-long learning and a growth mindset.

They are also grounded in the rhythms of Black cultural production, the questioning posture of communication theory, and the deep, iterative feedback loops of meaningful education. This is a big picture perspective and based on daily actions.

Each move is a trainable micro-skill—a single focused action that helps someone become more intentional about how they gather, evaluate, create, and share knowledge. These are things like “Ask a better question,” “Use feedback to grow,” “Track your learning over time,” and “Test and iterate on your ideas.” On their own, each move is simple. But together, they form a transformative system—especially when understood through 6 stages of knowledge production:

1. Form questions, seek gaps, and engage curiosity

2. Gather, evaluate, and organize information

3. Make meaning, build insight, and shape understanding

4. Share ideas clearly, powerfully, and accessibly

5. Deepen insight, track growth, and sustain learning

6. Create and share knowledge with others

These stages map the journey every learner goes through, whether they’re writing a paper, starting a business, learning a language, or building a life. And the Moves give learners specific handles—actions—to take at every point in that journey.

But what really makes these Moves work is what Carol Dweck and colleagues call academic tenacity. In their research on growth mindset, they show that the belief that intelligence can grow—not just be measured—leads to greater resilience, more learning, and higher achievement. The 52 Moves are just my own way of operationalizing that belief. These moves not just motivation, but motion. Each move is something you can do again, better, tomorrow.

In this way, the Moves are not only pedagogical—they’re political. They push back on the myth that brilliance is static or inherited. They affirm that knowledge is built in community, through process, with effort, and over time.

The 52 Moves supports others in practicing the belief: how you learn is as important as what you learn. And in honouring that process—especially for students navigating multiple identities, languages, and traditions—we create space not just for academic success, but for empowered, liberated, culturally grounded learning lives.

Each move is a trainable micro-skill: one focused action that helps you become more intentional with how you gather, evaluate, create, and share knowledge. Moves include things like:

• Formulating Insightful Questions

• Evaluating Source Credibility

• Translating Themes into Arguments

• Celebrating Knowledge Breakthroughs

• Committing to a Long-Term Knowledge Practice

What makes this system unique is how it’s built: each move is designed for high-frequency feedback, repetition loops, and interruption-based coaching. In other words, it’s made to be practiced—not just read about.

Whether you’re 10 or 40, in school or in the workplace, this system adapts. You can start with just one move a week and build up your thinking muscles like reps at the gym.

Why it matters? Because learning is no longer just about memorizing facts. It’s about knowing how to question, interpret, remix, and apply ideas to your life.

The 52 Moves give you the tools to do just that.

Here are the 52 Moves organized

into 6 Stages of producing knowledge

Stage 1: Inquiry and Exploration

Form questions, seek gaps, and engage curiosity.

1. Formulate Insightful Questions

2. Identify Gaps in Existing Knowledge

3. Conduct Exploratory Research

4. Evaluate Source Credibility

5. Take Structured Notes

6. Compare Theoretical Frameworks

7. Identify Patterns and Connections

Stage 2: Research and Understanding

Gather, evaluate, and organize information.

8. Use Analytical Tools and Frameworks

9. Take Structured Notes

10. Extract and Synthesize Key Ideas

11. Visualize Data for Clarity

12. Formulate Evidence-Based Themes

13. Develop Evidence-Based Arguments

14. Test and Iterate on Ideas

15. Create Models or Prototypes

Stage 3: Analysis and Synthesis

Make meaning, build insight, and shape understanding.

16. Translate Themes into Arguments

17. Formulate Balanced Perspectives

18. Use Visual Aids to Enhance Understanding

19. Integrate Quotes and Data Effectively

20. Build a Clear Research Narrative

21. Revise for Coherence and Flow

22. Edit for Style and Precision

23. Strengthen Claims with Counterarguments

24. Translate Ideas Across Contexts

Stage 4: Communication and Amplification

Share your ideas clearly, powerfully, and accessibly.

25. Adapt Writing for Different Audiences

26. Present Research Orally with Confidence

27. Create Effective Presentation Slides

28. Repurpose Work Across Mediums

29. Publish in Accessible Formats

30. Host Public Knowledge Events

31. Design Knowledge Products for Public Use

32. Contribute to Open Educational Resources (OER)

Stage 5: Reflection and Continuity

Deepen insight, track growth, and sustain learning.

33. Use Feedback to Refine Thinking

34. Write for Reflection and Learning

35. Document the Research Process Systematically

36. Celebrate Milestones and Knowledge Breakthroughs

37. Archive and Reflect on Your Knowledge Journey

38. Revisit and Refine Your Core Inquiry

39. Commit to a Long-Term Knowledge Practice

40. Craft a Knowledge Portfolio

 Stage 6: Collaboration and Contribution

Create and share knowledge with others.

41. Engage in Peer Review and Feedback

42. Facilitate Peer Learning Communities

43. Co-Create Knowledge with Communities

44. Build and Maintain a Research Network

45. Contribute to a Collaborative Knowledge Project

46. Curate a Resource Library for Your Field

47. Teach What You’ve Learned

48. Develop a Personal Knowledge Practice

 Integration and Legacy

49. Archive and Reflect on Your Knowledge Journey

50. Celebrate Milestones and Knowledge Breakthroughs

51. Revisit and Refine Your Core Inquiry

52. Commit to a Long-Term Knowledge Practice