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Bringing the best learning science in the world straight to the classroom. Evidence-based education for school leadership, educators, and families. Built with educators and families, with multidisciplinary expertise.

Science you can actually use, now.

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WHO I AM

Founder with a mission.

A young Kristyn — curious about how things work.
Then
Dr Kristyn Sommer today, founder of Many Minds Institute.
Now

The best science in the world is useless if the people who need it never see it.

I founded Many Minds Institute because the gap between research and practice was too big, and too consequential, to leave alone. School leadership, educators, and families were making decisions every day without access to the evidence that would change those decisions, make it easier to make them and implement them. So I built the bridge. Not a translation service. An entire educational ecosystem that treats educators and parents as the experts they are in the kids in front of them. We just give them the science to support it.

Every resource we make is carefully created with an advisory panel of the people who will use it. The people most affected by how we teach, treat, and support children are the only ones qualified to shape what we build. Kids included.

MANY MINDS INSTITUTE

Teaching the people who teach kids.

Dr Kristyn Sommer presenting to an audience

Giving educators the language for what they already know about learning and the tools to bring that to their classroom

Evidence and practice, finally in the same room.

Many Minds Institute is dedicated to changing how the people who teach and support kids think about learning, neurobiology and neurodiversity. We provide evidence-based, neurodiversity-affirming, universal training and resources for educators, schools and families.

The goal: help adults understand the science of how children actually learn, and apply it in ways that respect and support every child's way of growing.

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