Welcome to

The Origins Program

The Origins Program offers a robust collection of teaching and learning resources to support students, educators, schools, and districts in achieving cultural equity, social and emotional competencies and academic excellence.

Our approach, Developmental Designs, is a set of research based, developmentally responsive teaching strategies that assist students in advancing their Social Emotional Academic Learning S.E.A.L.®   These strategies encompass a personalized relationship-based learning approach to help educators better connect with students and parents, leverage their specific strengths, and address student needs.

Our one, two and four day workshops were designed to meet the needs of every district and employee. Each workshop is taught by current classroom teachers that have mastered the Developmental Designs strategies and thus deliver practical and sound advice about ‘real-world’ classroom application.

Follow up and on-going support ensures rigorous and successful implementation. Support includes expert in-person and virtual coaching, book study, publications and assessment. Follow up is tailored to meet the needs of your individual district and plan to phasing in the Developmental Designs approach over one or several years.

NEW book! Arriving soon to our bookstore!

Duty of Care

 

Realizing

Belonging Access Justice Equity Diversity Inclusion (BeAJEDI)

in Our Classrooms and Communities

This book arrives at a critical moment of disequilibrium for educational systems, offering readers a holistic approach to intentional implementation of integrated academic and social-emotional learning (SEL) practices. It provides a pedagogy, a practice, and a way of being with one another that fosters joyful learning environments for all learners—students and adults alike. It challenges educators, school leaders, and community members to examine how all-day, everyday teaching and learning in our schools can create more equitable outcomes.
We can take care to create the conditions where all students can thrive!
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