The Positive and Engaged Learning Community

Yes, and! You’ll get a solid foundation in classroom management basics, wrapped up in a blanket of anti-racist, trauma informed, relational approaches. Nitty gritty routines and strategies are explored through a child-centered, reflective lens.

This course is based on decades of experience in a wide range of learning communities. The principles apply to PK-12, though many of our examples are in K-8 environments.

I’ve worked with hundreds of teachers, leaders, camp counselors, and after school providers to build positive, engaged learning communities using this exact process. These learning communities have included multilingual suburban/semi-rural districts, summer camps, affluent and racially diverse private schools, under-resourced urban schools, high functioning public schools, and even nonpublic schools that serve populations with significant psychiatric diagnoses.

I have seen these ideas and skills empower adults and children to make positive shifts in all of these communities. Ultimately YOU will craft a plan that suits your environment, but I’ll provide you with the foundations.

The live, personalized community coaching in the full memberships has been incredibly helpful for ironing out teachers’ unique challenges.

That being said, I can’t guarantee that this course will solve everything, of course, but I am confident you will see a positive shift in your and your students’ experiences.

The easiest and quickest way is with a credit card on the checkout page. If you need an alternative payment method, we love bill.com if that's what you already use. For checks or a PO, email [email protected] to request an invoice. 

Yes! If you’re unhappy with the membership for any reason, just email us within 30 days of purchase for a full refund.

The live Community Coaching takes place twice a month throughout the school year, and there is a summer retreat.

This self-guided material isn’t designed for you to take all at once and then never return. It’s designed to be taken at your own pace and then refined and implemented in a way that works for you. 

The choice is yours: work through all the material and create your own positive and engaged learning community blueprint in a couple of days over the summer, or spread it out over 2-3 months in bite-sized increments. 

Either way, you can return to lessons throughout the year* as new opportunities and challenges arise. Enjoy the flexibility and adaptability of this course to continuously improve your teaching practice and create an optimal learning environment for your students. Most people find that over time, they fold in more and more of the concrete strategies.

*Teachers are lifelong learners! We offer a discount so you can return for a second year and layer your learning.

Yes! If you are leading your entire learning community through a shift in practice, we are SO here for that. Based on work we’ve done with other leaders, we’ve created the [Admin/site Leader membership] with additional support to help you take these concepts and strategies and lead your site through actually implementing them. This is big work, so individual, personalized coaching for leadership is included in the administrator membership.

Agreed! The MOST effective approach is when children know what to do and how to do it in all settings, and those behavioral expectations are nestled in a strong sense of belonging and community. This doesn’t mean all teachers are stuck with rigid guidelines, but that there is a clear, well-communicated framework and administrative support.

The most effective way to bring this vision to life is combining the [trainer of trainers model] with full memberships for the entire school or program. To make this feasible, we offer bulk discounts so please [contact us].

Community Coaching is a live, interactive environment with tons of insights from our instructional coaches as well as your colleagues from other sites. Participants bring a range of celebrations and concerns like sharing photos of a new calm corner setup or agreements poster, getting feedback on a behavioral matrix from the group, or doing a challenging behavior analysis live with the coach. You may feel shy at first, but the facilitators create a collaborative, safe environment using many of the same positive approaches we teach in the videos! 

There are also occasional guest speakers, and lots of resource sharing, and this is where we roll out new materials or templates.

The content in this course is guided by a PBIS framework and decades of research on the effectiveness of POSITIVE behavioral supports and multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS). This course is focused on the universal tier, creating positive relationships, clear expectations, and building behavioral skills for all children in all settings. It’s meant to be adaptable to structures that are already in place, or usable for sites that are starting from scratch. We’ve seen it all!

Yes! This course will guide you through a mindset and framework that can dovetail with your social emotional curriculum, restorative practices, or other evidence-based, positive approaches.

Yes, please! After you’ve spent year one learning new ideas and strategies and applying them, most people have more capacity to go deeper in year 2. We offer a discounted rate for subsequent year memberships.

Each module is about 30-40 minutes of engaging videos, with accompanying activities. It is chunked in a way that you can consume and start to implement the first module immediately within a day, then spread out bite-sized lessons for the rest or complete the content, write your blueprint, and then refine it as you implement.

Site leaders: we DO encourage you to provide release time for participants so they can fully focus on the course, instead of watching on double speed or “participating” with cameras off while prepping for the next day.

The activities are very flexible and will guide you toward applying the content in your unique setting. In the full membership, Community Coaching allows participants to bring their own personal questions and concerns to our instructional coaches, and the administrator membership includes individual coaching. 

Some settings have a very strong, very unique identity! For an additional fee, we can also work with you to create your own, site-based videos and custom branding.