Professional Development & Training

Workshops built by practitioners, for practitioners

We’ve delivered these workshops to schools, Head Start programs, early childhood organizations, and community agencies across Western North Carolina. Every session is led by educators who have lived this work - not consultants reading from a slide deck.

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Flagship Programs

Two workshops. Real tools. Immediate impact.

These are the workshops schools and programs keep inviting us back for. Both are grounded in evidence, built for practice, and designed for the actual classroom - not a theoretical one.

Flagship Program

The BEAR Program Workshop

Every child gets a bear. Every teacher gets a framework. Every classroom gets a shared emotional language.

The Bank Street classroom program that gives each child a portable emotional anchor - and trains educators to use it in circle time, transitions, and conflict resolution.

Half-Day Intro Full-Day Deep Dive Coaching Series
Limited to 25 Participants

Autism: It Just Makes Sense!

A full-day paradigm shift - not a checklist. Walk away with Shoebox Tasks you built yourself, ready for your classroom or home.

The training teachers ask for after their first year supporting Autistic children - strengths-based, hands-on, TEACCH-grounded. Available in English and Spanish.

Full-Day Cohort EN / ES 25 Participants Max
Custom Engagements

We come to you

Most of our work happens on-site - in your school, your program, your community center. We build engagements around your staff’s actual questions, not a generic curriculum.

School-Based PD

Half or full-day sessions built around your school improvement goals. EN / ES.

Program Consulting

Multi-session engagements embedding relational practice into classroom culture and supervision.

Coaching Series

Ongoing reflective coaching for teachers and leadership teams. We stay long enough for it to stick.

Schools & Organizations We’ve Worked With

Buncombe Partnership for Children Raising Resilience WNC Smart Start NC Bank Street College of Education NCIMHA
From Educators Who’ve Lived the Work

What teachers say

“A common language for feelings”

“The BEAR Program gave my classroom a common language for feelings that my kids actually use. Six months later the bears are still part of everything we do.”

“Tools I used the next week”

“I came into the Autism training skeptical. I left with a box of tools I used the very next week. It’s the most practical PD I’ve had in ten years of teaching.”

“Changed how I see my reactions”

“The coaching series changed how I see my own reactions - not just my students’ behavior. That shift is the hardest thing to teach and somehow they did it.”

Composite reflections from workshop participants across Western North Carolina. Individual names not published without consent - these reflect recurring themes from participant feedback.

Pricing & Availability

Let’s find something that works

Pricing varies by format, group size, and travel. We work with Title I schools, small community programs, and organizations without large PD budgets. If cost is a barrier, say so - we’ll figure it out together.

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Tell us a little about your team, your context, and what you’re hoping to build. We’ll respond within a few days.

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