Teach · CoacH · Mentor

Like you, we want to offer our students the best of who we are.  We want to make a positive difference in the lives of our learners.  We want to teach better, smarter, more effectively, and with better outcomes.  In short, we want to master the art and science of teaching…and learning.  

Unfortunately, we have attended way to many professional development workshops where the information didn’t apply to our classroom context.  We have sat in the back of the training room waiting for the facilitator to address the vulnerabilities, the trauma, and the difficulties of teaching a group of learners who are impoverished, over-stimulated, and under-resourced.    

When our founder and CEO, Tamara Thompson was teaching in an inner city school, she couldn’t find the solutions she was looking for. She wanted research-based strategies that were practical and effective with vulnerable learners.  She need strategies that spoke to the unique needs of vulnerable learners.  She needed an approach that addressed the mental, emotional, and physical burden that learning sometimes brings when learners are trying to learn while they hold their lives together.  Life and struggle impact cognition, esteem, motivation, and learning success.  Shouldn’t our teaching be responsive to these conditions?