A commitment to co-creating more sustainable policies & practices from the ground-up
Professional Learning – Coaching – Co-Creating
A passion for co-creating more nutritive & equitable
education policies & practices…
“I recognize that as teachers and administrators, we are often asked to implement policies coming from a very faraway (often well-meaning) place. However, when we implement these policies they are often misaligned with the needs of our students, families, and school community. It is time those of us at the pulse of where students, curriculum, staff, and families come together to become the policy co-creators of more antibias, antiracist, brain-based, body-centric, culturally and identities sustaining public schools.”
-Patrícia Cerqueira Seidler, EdM
Professional Learning
Teachers deserve to experience hands-on and interactive learning as they broaden their repertoire to provide such experiences for their own students.
Through embodied hands-on approaches, I offer ways of integrating differentiated instruction within the monolingual, bilingual, single or multi grade classroom. My focus on centering neurodivergent students and historically marginalized populations through my antibias antiracist approaches allows for teaching and learning that is more nutritive for all.
Other facilitations I offer:
- Community building to co-create classrooms where students feel seen, like they matter, and can exert positive influence and leadership
- Curriculum study facilitation (if needed) for integrating multidisciplinary standards accross multi grade classrooms.
- Small group and 1-1 coaching sessions for teachers after PD sessions.
- AI integration that preserves and promotes human connection and autonomy.
Coaching
Teachers are life-long learners and deserve to walk alongside the high-impact work of coaches to support the emotional and cognitive demands of being a teacher in this day and age.
Neurodivergent students and families often do not needs more strategies for navigating life, they need a coach to walk school life with them. As a coach, I am able to support students and families on the bite-size, high-impact moves that will help lessen the demands on executive functioning and sensory-processing demands of school life.
Parenting Thought Partner
We were never meant to do this growing and learning alone as parents. Especially parents of children playing by a playbook divergent from that which traditional schools was intended. Walking this path with a culturally responsive and sustaining teacher who has extensive experience working with brilliantly in-tune neurodivergent students makes the journey of parenting our children and reparenting ourselves more sustainable.
Workshops
- Teacher Policy, Maker, Shaker, Co-Creator
- Policy, Maker, Shaker, Co-Creator: For Educational Leaders & Co-Conspirators
- Emotional Intimacy: A Journey Within
- Setting Intentions for the Year Ahead
Advocacy
- Collaborating with organizations investing in BIPOC educational leaders
- Investing in political action groups working to center culturally sustaining policies and practices.
- Visioning schools that are culturally sustaining spaces where children are supported, embodied in their learning, and can thrive in their full identities.
Resources
- Antiracist/Antibias Books
- Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies & Practices
- Culturally Responsive Design Thinking for Systems Change
- Coaching for Equity
An array of resources
Credit where credit is due… check out the ocean of books that have taught me, challenged me, and shaped my work in this courageous journey.
Coaching
- Workshop new ways to solve old problems
- Take seeds of change with every session
- Experience the gift of high-impact moves within your classroom community and teams
Workshops
- Build emotional intimacy through practices & rituals
- Use your executive functioning to shine your light
- Impact all those in the splash-zone of your being
“Tell stories to help others understand your beliefs and opinions. Offer your stories, not in the hope that they will change anyone else, but because they are your stories to tell and they deserve to live outside you. And when you are a listener, allow the stories of others to change you.”
-Elena Aguilar
Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators
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