Cardinal Learn
The platform underneath the wider ecosystem, connecting publishing, courses, communities and shared systems while allowing each project to keep its own identity.
Learning Ecosystem
Different projects. A shared belief in learning.
The Study Coach is one part of a wider body of work created around learning, curiosity, creativity, community and support.
Some projects are for students. Some are for adults. Some are about books, creativity, gifted and unconventional learners, lifelong learning or caregiving. They have different audiences and different purposes, but many of the same beliefs run underneath them.
I seem to keep building around the same questions.
What helps someone understand something that did not make sense before?
What gives people another way in?
What makes learning feel useful, interesting and human?
What helps someone keep going when the next step is not obvious?
The projects in this ecosystem answer those questions in different ways.
Authority Ed
Practical guidance on learning — including study skills, executive functioning, critical thinking, teaching and thoughtful use of AI in education.
The Learning Library
A growing collection of textbooks, workbooks and learning resources designed to make complex subjects clearer, more useful and easier to return to.
Creative Learning Community
A learning and community space for adults who want to discover or reclaim creativity through curiosity, play, ideas, practice and everyday creative life.
Unicorn Minds
A learning and creative community for gifted, creative, intense, twice-exceptional and unconventional young people who want room to go deeper, make things, ask big questions and belong.
The Village
In developmentThe adult companion to Unicorn Minds — for parents, educators, therapists, tutors, mentors and others supporting gifted, creative and unconventional young people.
Crane Learn
In developmentA lifelong-learning community for later adulthood, built around curiosity, creativity, relationships, contribution and the possibility of learning something new at any age. Learning does not retire.
Crane Learn Care
In developmentAn aging, care and caregiving space focused on practical understanding of systems, planning, advocacy, family decisions, support and caregiver well-being.
TrishFaber.com
Trish’s personal home for writing, books, stories, reflections, creative work and the many ideas that do not fit neatly into only one project.
Different doors into the same larger idea.
Not everyone needs the same kind of learning space at the same point in life.
A teenager looking for somewhere to belong, an adult rediscovering creativity, a family navigating care, someone opening a history book simply because they want to understand more — those are very different needs.
The projects are meant to stay different enough to serve those people well, while sharing a belief that curiosity, support and learning should remain available throughout a life.
The Learning Library
Books and workbooks for people who want to understand a subject, practise it, come back to it, or simply learn because they are curious.
Foundations of Reading and Language
Understanding Meaning in Text
Reading With Understanding
Applying Reading Skills Across Texts
Writing With Clarity
Using Writing to Clarify Meaning
Writing With Purpose
Developing and Writing Different Kinds of Essays
Canadian History
Understanding the Past and Its Meaning Today
Canadian History Workbook, Volume 1
Working With the Past: Chapter Companion
Canadian History Workbook, Volume 2
Thinking Like a Historian: Skills, Research, and Writing
Science
Understanding the World Through Evidence, Systems, and Change
Science Workbook, Volume 1
Working With Science: Chapter Companion
Science Workbook, Volume 2
Thinking Like a Scientist: Skills, Inquiry, and Scientific Writing
Geography
Understanding Place, Patterns, and Human–Earth Relationships
Canadian Edition
Geography Workbook, Volume 1
Working With Place and Patterns: Chapter Companion
Geography Workbook, Volume 2
Thinking Like a Geographer: Skills, Maps, Inquiry, and Geographic Writing
Canadian Civics
Understanding Government, Citizenship, and Public Life
Still growing.
This ecosystem is not finished — and it probably never will be.
New books, learning spaces and communities will continue to take shape as the work grows. The projects may serve different people, but the thread running through them is remarkably consistent: keep learning open, keep support human, and keep making room for curiosity.