Professional Development

“Daily Realities” Workshops: Solutions for Your Toughest Moments

We tackle teachers' common challenging moments—the "daily realities"—when fostering group engagement. These moments are rich opportunities for growth!

  • Improve Outcomes: We transform struggles into success, improving outcomes for both the group as a whole and individuals.

  • Expert, Hands-On Strategies: Dive into specific, proven strategies from our extensive work with early learners.

  • Customized for Your Team: Our program is fully customized to meet the unique and specific requirements of your learning environment.

Choose Learning Seeds to inspire and support your team with practical, expert professional development!

Innovative, Inspiring, Practical Training for Early Childhood Staff

Unlock the Power of Group Engagement with Learning Seeds!

Engagement with the group experience is where we first “learn to learn”. We give your teachers the practical tools and powerful strategies to achieve this fundamental goal.

Full School-Day Professional Development Program

  • Morning full staff presentation

  • “Working lunch” mid-day break with discussion

  • Afternoon hands-on workshop

A 3-hour half-day option is also available.

Reach out to our team to discuss how our program can fit your staff development needs.

Read about our workshop at the Pyramid Model Summit.

Participants learn to guide children

  • out of the periphery and into group activities

  • from flitting and disrupting to grounding in the play

  • toward sharing objects, smiles, laughter, and experiences

  • toward pretending, imagining, and playing together

Testimonials

  • "Learning Seeds are the detectives who can spot precursors to behavioral challenges. They understand how to identify the motivation behind a child's moment-to-moment interactions."

    Sarah, preschool director

  • "Learning Seeds is reinforcing for us the benefit of the teacher staying close, observing and stepping in when scaffolding would be helpful to shore up the child's play and ensure that all of the children are benefiting from it."

    - Marie, lead teacher

  • "We learned so much from watching how the Learning Seeds Enlightened Shadows interact and play with the children – making activities more inclusive, giving everyone their own parts, making it a group activity, getting the kids used to doing things all together."

    Shea, lead teacher

  • "Learning Seeds made the child the first person instead of the adult telling the kids what to do. They went with how the child was feeling and allowed the child to build the story."

    Tamara, teacher

  • "Learning Seeds has the potential to revolutionize kindergarten readiness because of their focus on the individual child. The skills that my child developed during his time with Learning Seeds helped him to feel like a good friend, like somebody who could socialize and play and engage with the group."

    Becca, parent

  • "While some interventions tend to focus on one specific area such as OT or Speech and Language, Learning Seeds takes a more integrative approach. The Learning Seeds team has gotten to know my child as a whole, from many perspectives, as opposed to just one perspective."

    Sue, parent

  • "Words cannot describe how many changes I witnessed in my son as a direct result of Learning Seeds' intervention. I now have a very talkative and social eight-year-old who is learning so much every day."

    Laurie, parent

  • "The Learning Seeds team has been a wonderful support to me since my son was diagnosed with PDD-NOS. They have helped me find my footing amidst a new world of evaluations, therapies and acronyms, and offered to troubleshoot some of the specific issues we were having at home. A struggle in our daily life isn't so hard anymore."

    Tara, parent

  • "We saw more improvement in 10 weeks with the Learning Seeds program than with 9 years of in-person coaching with the most widely-used solution."

    PreK teacher mentor

We are committed to helping our teacher colleagues guide the children in their care toward engagement.

Do you have special concerns about an individual child not engaging in the group experience?

Do you need help creating enduring, independent group engagement in unstructured play settings?

Let’s connect to explore how Learning Seeds can support you and your education team.

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