Upcoming Courses
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Adult SEL for Educators: Honing Our Skills to Build Welcoming Classroom Communities
For: All educators
Next ASPDP course starts: July 15, 2025
Location: Online
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SEL Skills for Advisories: Building Communities of Support
For: Educators in an advisory setting
Next ASPDP course starts: August 5, 2025
Location: Online
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Authenticity in the Creative Classroom: Building Communities to Support Students
For: Creativity Educators
Next ASPDP course starts: TK
Location: TK
Learn MoreAuthenticity in the Classroom: Level Two
For: All Educators
Next ASPDP course starts: TK
Location: Online
Learn moreAuthenticity in the Digital Classroom: Digital Tools to Build Authentic Classroom Relationships
For: All Educators
Next ASPDP course starts: TK
Location: Online
Learn MoreChildren's Books: Telling Our Stories to Develop Social Emotional Awareness
For: Pre-K through 5th Grade Educators
Next ASPDP course starts: TK
Location: TK
Learn MoreCo-create authentic Communities with Your Students
Our live, interactive workshops will take you through creative and reflective processes that invite you to examine your identity and the identities of your students.
Understand who your students are.
Connect with your students authentically.
Develop tools to help your students soar.
Curious if our workshops are a good fit for you?Submit your name and email to get our course syllabi.
Programs to help you become your best educator self
Become the best educator you can
You’re a mentor, a motivator, a model for your students. Every day, you’re there as they explore their identities and try out new skills. You’re there as they take risks, make mistakes, grow new sets of wings. And you’re there if they need to take a few steps back... or at least turn around to see you wave.
Support your students’ journeys
How can you ensure your students continue to discover their place in the world? How can you show them it’s okay to embrace their authentic selves? You can be a model by showing up as your authentic self. This means bringing your full self into your teaching practice and letting your students see that you’re human. It’s about being imperfect, being real, and being their witness. It’s about being that teacher each of us needs as a child—the one who sees us for who we are.
Ongoing (and Free) Programming for Educators
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Authenticity Works! Book Club
For: All Adults Engaged in Caring For Children
Dates: The First Tuesday of Every Month 7-8:30 EST
Location: Remote
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Adult SEL for Educators Peer Coaching
For: All educators
Dates: Every Thursday at 5pm EST
Location: Remote
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What our educators say about our programming:
“I felt important and that my ideas mattered.”
“Truly feel this was an interactive and engaging workshop. do not change anything.”
“I felt comfortable enough to tell my story”
“I learned how to elicit openness and authenticity in my students and myself as an educator”
“I learned the importance of being a good role model for students to feel accepted and develop their authentic selves”
“I was reminded that art is a way expressing feeling and that teachers who ask children to do this need to spend more time doing it Themselves”
All children need an interconnected web of grownups who teach, nurture them, and give them roots.
What is it that gives kids the encouragement to step further out into the world?
What is it that gives them the courage to take risks, express what they know, share how they feel?
What is it that helps them not only feel good in their own skin but confident, courageous, and truly proud of who they are?
It’s being seen by us, the adults in their lives. When this happens, children begin to see themselves. And with this growing understanding of themselves comes the confidence and courage to contribute to the world on their own terms—proudly, securely, authentically.
Preschool teacher Lizelle Canque showed us an amazing technique she learned from her kindergarten which she uses to this day to help her reduce stress and let her tap into her creativity. One of the things we loved about Lizelle’s piece is that it demonstrates the profound impact educators can have on their students' lives long after they have left the classroom. Years later, Lizelle not only uses the technique for herself but she now uses it with her students as well. Watch the video below to hear Lizelle explain the technique and how she uses it today.