Marcia Heiman, Ph.D.

Marcia Heiman is Chief Executive Officer of Learning to Learn, Inc., a consulting and publishing firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm provides Learning to Learn® (LTL) seminars and materials for educators and business persons.

Dr. Heiman has developed and researched the effectiveness of LTL for 30 years. She served as director of college learning centers at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of New Hampshire, Roxbury Community College, and Boston College. She has tested the impact of LTL on her own students. LTL's controlled studies showing measurable changes in learning have been externally validated by the U.S. Department of Education. The Department has recommended LTL for national dissemination; it is now used at colleges and universities throughout the nation.

Dr. Heiman holds a Bachelor of Arts from New York University, a Masters in Research in Instruction from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a doctorate in Behavioral Sciences from the University of Michigan.
 
 

Joshua Slomianko

Joshua Slomianko is co-developer of LTL. Mr. Slomianko has a wide-ranging background, which includes being part of a research team in immunology at the Medical School of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem; directing the blood bank at Misgabladach Hospital; working with television news visuals for the Israeli Broadcasting Authorities; and doing graduate work in philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Since 1979, Mr. Slomianko has been the co-developer of LTL. In this work he has made the disparate strategies in LTL a coherent, whole system and discovered new strategies which strengthen LTL; written LTL instructional materials; and conducted LTL training seminars.

Mr. Slomianko holds a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and has done graduate work in philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He also received training in the biological sciences at the Hadassah Medical School of Jerusalem.

Dr. Heiman and Mr. Slomianko are also the developers of the National Education Association's Building Thinking Skills series; the editors of Thinking Skills Instruction: Concepts and Techniques, the authors of Learning to Learn® - Critical Thinking Skills for the Quality Workforce; and the developers of Learning to Learn®, an interactive video course which IBM has made available to its entire workforce worldwide.