Category: Instructor


  • Why Firefighters Can Struggle to Retain What You Teach

    You ran a great class. The crew was engaged. The feedback was positive. But when you’re three weeks later half of them canโ€™t recall the main points. This isnโ€™t because they’re terrible students, unmotivated or undisciplined, at least not entirely. Science says this is a memory problem and it’s not just a recent one. The…

  • The Lecture Isnโ€™t the Problem. I am.

    Thatโ€™s a hard thing to say, and I mean it in the most constructive way possible. Training officers work incredibly hard. The number of hours spent building slide decks, tracking compliance, chasing sign-in sheets, and trying to squeeze 40 hours of content into a department that only gives you 20 is genuinely exhausting. Nobody gets…