EDUCATOR EXPERIENCES
Professional development that respects the people in the room.
Educators spend a lot of time being asked to learn new programs, adopt new strategies, and respond to changing expectations. We know the last thing most teachers want is another training that feels disconnected from what their days actually look like.
The Core Project works directly with school teams through interactive, facilitated experiences: getting people involved, making room for real conversation, and keeping the work connected to what educators are actually experiencing in their schools.
The goal is pretty simple: make the time useful.
DESIGNED TO BE EXPERIENCED
This isn’t sit-and-get professional development.
Our trainings are designed to involve the people in the room. Educators have opportunities to participate and think about how the ideas connect to their own work.
There’s also room for the facilitator to respond to what’s happening in the group rather than simply moving through a presentation. Participation is encouraged without putting people on the spot.
The experience should feel useful while you’re in it, not just sound good on paper.
FIND THE RIGHT EXPERIENCE
What does your staff need right now?
Core Lessons Foundations Training™
For schools getting started with Core Lessons and educators who will be facilitating the curriculum.
Elevate Core Lessons™
For current Core Lessons schools that want to refresh their approach and get more from the curriculum.
The Attached Classroom™
For educators looking to better understand relationships and what may be underneath challenging student behavior.
Rooted, Renewed, Ready™
For educators who want to strengthen their emotional and relational foundation and gain tools to navigate conflict, build trust, and sustain a healthy school culture.
Explore Rooted, Renewed, Ready →
CORE LESSONS FOUNDATIONS TRAINING
Get your staff ready to facilitate Core Lessons.
Core Lessons works best when educators understand more than what to do. This training gives them a chance to experience the curriculum themselves and become more comfortable with the role of the facilitator.
We walk through how lessons are structured, what participation can look like, and some of the situations that come up when facilitating with middle and high school students.
The training is especially useful for schools introducing Core Lessons for the first time or bringing new staff into an existing implementation.
BEST FOR: Schools beginning Core Lessons or training new facilitators
ALREADY USING CORE LESSONS?
Looking to go deeper?
Elevate Core Lessons™ is designed for schools that want to refresh their facilitation and strengthen implementation.
ELEVATE CORE LESSONS
You know the lessons. Now let’s look at the facilitation.
Once educators have been using Core Lessons for a while, different questions start to come up. How do you get more students involved? What do you do when discussion falls flat? How do you handle resistance? What happens when a lesson doesn’t go the way you expected?
Elevate Core Lessons is a refresher training for schools already using Core Lessons. Rather than starting over with the basics, we spend more time on the facilitation itself and the small decisions that can make a big difference in how a lesson feels in the room.
Educators leave with new ideas to try and a better understanding of how to make Core Lessons their own.
BEST FOR: Current Core Lessons schools and returning facilitators
“I think it’s safe to say many of us experienced one of the most impactful days of our careers yesterday and we owe you a great deal of gratitude for your work.”
Principal, Maconaquah High School
THE ATTACHED CLASSROOM
Sometimes behavior makes more sense when you understand what’s underneath it.
Educators deal with a lot of student behavior that can feel confusing, frustrating, or personal in the moment.
The Attached Classroom™ helps staff look at behavior through a different lens. The experience explores how relationships, stress, and a student’s sense of safety can shape the way they respond at school.
Through an attachment informed lens, teachers learn to see anxious, avoidant, and ambivalent responses as communication rather than defiance. Participants gain practical tools to reduce escalation, create emotional safety, maintain clear expectations, and build trust with reactive or withdrawn students.
BEST FOR: Staff who want a deeper understanding of student behavior and relationships
ROOTED, RENEWED, READY
Sometimes the people doing the work need some attention too.
Working in a school can be incredibly meaningful. It can also wear people down. Rooted, Renewed, Ready™ gives educators time to step outside the normal pace of the school day and pay attention to how they’re doing. The experience creates room for staff to reconnect with themselves and with the people they work alongside.
Rooted, Renewed, Ready is a professional development experience designed to strengthen the emotional and relational foundation of your staff. Educators reconnect around shared purpose while gaining practical tools to navigate conflict, build trust, and sustain a healthy school culture.
Extended Half Day Staff Experience
A facilitated session with guided reflection, structured dialogue, and practical tools for strengthening relationships and navigating tension with clarity.District Keynote Experience
A research informed keynote that grounds educators in relational trust, emotional resilience, and collective renewal, with clear takeaways to begin the year strong.
BEST FOR: School staffs that could use time to reconnect and reset
WHAT EDUCATORS ARE SAYING
From the people that have been in the room.
Read what educators have to say about trainings with The Core Project.
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“During the training, I saw smiles on people’s faces that I don’t think I’ve ever seen smile in a group setting. I saw people actively engaged and participating that I’ve never seen even attempt to look interested in PD. I had a principal at another school in the district call me and ask me where to find you because by the next day, word had spread how valuable it was.”
Counselor, Scott High School
“A rarity yesterday: A professional development session that was helpful, insightful, thought-provoking, and useful. It’s amazing the difference it makes when a presenter approaches the attendees as professionals.”
Educator, Scott High School
“Fantastic presentation! Best PD for back to school that I've experienced in 20 years!”
Teacher, Betty Kiefer Elementary
REACH OUT
Let’s talk about what your staff needs.
Every school is different. Tell us a little about your staff and what you’re hoping to address. We can help you determine which educator experience makes the most sense and answer questions about scheduling or pricing.