principles guide us to specify practices to help us serve our purpose.. if we're here to make language learning easier, then we our evolving practices can grow from stable, defined core principles:

[edit] first things first

• 80/20 rule.. whats a forest, whats a tree? what delivers results?
• where is no conflict?
• if one action to serve purpose, what is it?

[edit] keep it simple

• can it get any simpler?
• clarify
• single point of truth

[edit] keep it real

• honest
• straight talk
• wise sayings (everyone knows)

[edit] emotionally connect

• who cares?
• why?

[edit] learn from mistakes

• abstruse terminological complexities
• acronymania
• principles, not personalities
• find out why they stray

[edit] brain research

• prep
• flow
• review
• rest

[edit] learner centric

• teachers learn
• learners teach
• respect: alfie kohn

this purpose, principles, practices way to look at knowledge organization or "complex, adaptive systems" comes from Dee Hock, founder of [Visa, International]

this ain't even a draft.. it's a rudimentary brain dump.. please improve it