Professional Learning
Social-Emotional Learning

The School Wellness Wheel

Prepare your school to address trauma, promote well-being, and elevate learning. Backed by educational, psychological, and medical research, this training provides a growth-focused framework for supporting students’ cognitive, social, and emotional needs.

• Learn how to develop resilience-centered schools that promote healing and higher levels of wellness and learning.
• Acquire research-based practices to foster a culture of mastery and ownership and build positive teacher-student relationships.
• Understand the effects of trauma and adverse childhood experiences on students’ cognitive, social, and emotional growth.

Educator Wellness

Educator and teacher wellness is a personal journey. And like all journeys, there are starts, stops, and bumps in the road. Designed to prompt reflection and action, this training takes you on a deep exploration where you will uncover profound answers that ring true for you.

• Observe how a commitment to daily self-care and well-being leads to a more fulfilling, successful life in and outside of the school setting.
• Explore self-care activities for teachers and educators to sustain well-being in the face of workplace overload and potential burnout.
• Learn how to monitor your self-care progress and design an actionable wellness plan for next steps.

Coaching for Educator Wellness

Fully and confidently step into your role as an instructional coach. This training offers evergreen strategies alongside fresh new solutions that will help you differentiate coaching practices for new and veteran teachers, address teacher self-care, and more. Partner with our experts as you continue to improve your craft and help teachers find their own greatness.

• Review research surrounding best practices for coaching teachers.
• Explore strategies for differentiating coaching practices for teachers at every stage of their career.
• Study the four types of support, and learn how to match support to meet each teacher’s needs during different phases of the school year.
• Use interactive activities, tools, and templates to help support all teachers in increasing their expertise.
• Consider how self-care and professional wellness for adults are foundational supports for social-emotional learning for students.

Motivating and Inspiring Students

This interactive training is based on the idea that we all have four systems—knowledge, cognitive, metacognitive, and self—working in our minds at any given moment. While K–12 education has traditionally done a solid job of focusing on the knowledge and cognitive systems, the metacognitive and self systems have often been neglected in schools. Understand, appreciate, and address these other two systems in order to reach the whole child and awaken each and every learner in the classroom.

• Learn the four systems that humans operate under at all times and how these systems impact students and teachers in schools.
• Delve into the metacognitive and self systems’ hierarchy of goals, and understand how teachers can address these goals to reach students’ hearts, minds, and hands.
• Discover ways to create a culture and climate in schools and classrooms that awaken students to new possibilities and excitement.

Mindsets and Skill Sets for Learning

Cultivate confident thinkers who have a strong sense of agency over their lives. In this training, you’ll learn what student agency looks and sounds like in the classroom and gain strategies for developing a learner-centered culture, establishing well-defined learning targets, deliberately planning and structuring lessons, and more.

• Explore the Mindsets and Skill Sets framework for building agency, and understand the importance of developing self-agency in students.
• Receive detailed explanations of each component of the framework and guidance for putting it into practice in your classroom.
• Utilize an agency unit planner to design student-centered learning experiences that develop learner agency and skills.
• Hear perspectives from teachers and students who have transformed learning and increased student engagement using the framework.

Self-Care for Educators

Establish habits and routines that allow you to bring your very best self to those you serve. By utilizing a research-based framework for self-care, this training helps educators of all levels and backgrounds develop personalized self-care plans. You’ll leave feeling inspired, rejuvenated, and empowered.

• Explore foundational research and theory on self-care.
• Understand how Maslow’s hierarchy of needs comes into play in one’s personal and professional life.
• Gain strategies and recommendations related to each level of the hierarchy that can be implemented immediately.

Cultivating Mindfulness in the Classroom

Learn practical tools and strategies to incorporate mindfulness activities in the classroom and school, and gain an understanding of how to educate school leaders, parents, and students as to the value of cultivating mindfulness.

• Understand the research that supports integrating mindfulness in schools, including the science of mindfulness.
• Experience five major benefits of mindfulness: stress reduction, attention, emotional control, positive self-concept, and positive interactions.
• Gain an understanding of the importance of modeling, teaching, and reinforcing mindfulness.
• Learn practical activities to help students develop a positive self-concept and improve their overall well-being and relationships.
• Explore useful tools to help students focus their attention, reduce stress, and bring an awareness to their emotions.

Humanized Education: A Mastery-Based Framework to Promote Student Growth and Strength

Educators at all grade levels deeply understand that what happens inside the classroom is inextricably tied to students’ personal, emotional, and mental state outside the classroom. This service helps educators implement an innovative school model that can enhance the academic, mental, and psychological fitness of all stakeholders in a building.

• Discuss how educators are morally responsible for evolving schools into a contemporary model based on updated research and knowledge.
• Delve into strategies that can help enhance students’ academic, mental, and psychological fitness.
• Acquire research-based practices to foster literacy, equity, agency, relationships, and neurophysiology