The new wave of professional development for early childhood educators

What does it mean to be a S.E.E.D. Certified School?

Demand for early childhood programs and childcare centers that foster emotional intelligence is only growing as parents seek programs that address all of their child’s developmental needs. By becoming certified as a School Excelling in Emotional Development (S.E.E.D.), your school will stand out and attract the growing number of families who want to know their children are being taught in this approach.   

You’ll also be supporting your teachers with the tools they need to respond to kid’s big emotions with self-awareness and self-regulation, creating a collaborative, inclusive environment in which teachers and tiny humans thrive. To become S.E.E.D. Certified, every teacher at a school must complete the training program, resulting in a unified, consistent approach.

What you’ll come away with

S.E.E.D. Certification identifies your school as being committed to the highest-quality care. Two key components of high-quality care are teacher experience and training, and support services for teachers. S.E.E.D. Certification addresses these by providing your teachers with tools and resources to build their EI toolboxes and access to a community of ongoing support made up of ECE experts.  

Teachers will come away understanding their own personal biases and how they can care for themselves to reduce burnout. Everyone at your school will learn how to build their emotional intelligence so they can collaborate in teaching children, navigating conflict, and supporting kids and families.

Teachers who complete the training receive 7 hours of professional development. S.E.E.D. Certification goes far beyond that, too. Becoming certified is the gateway to ongoing support and encouragement from a village of ECE experts and fellow educators who care as much about providing high-quality care as you do. 

The approach you’ll find in our training material is research-based by content area experts in their field to support your staff in providing high-quality care in the developmental areas with the greatest impact. Presented by instructors with masters’ degrees or higher, the workshops cover emotional, sensory, and language development and dive into anti-racism, self-care, and boundary setting.

Our 8 workshops focus specifically on: 

Bias & Self Awareness in the Classroom

Anti-Bias Curriculum for Anti-Racist Classrooms 

Self-Care to Prevent Burnout 

Sensory Integration Beyond Sensory Bins: Calming the Central Nervous System

Connecting with Families

Emotion Coaching for Emotion Processing 

Boundaries, Discipline, & Visual Aids for Emotionally Supportive Classrooms

Supporting the Development of Children’s Regulation and Language Through Play 

Educators who complete these workshops cultivate the self-awareness and the self-regulation skills needed to care for themselves, avoid burnout, and care for tiny humans based on an EI approach.

Register to become 

S.E.E.D. Certified today

Every person has inherent biases, triggers, and social programming they’ve brought with them into adulthood. Teachers are no exception. But this doesn’t have to lead to teacher burnout, or limit your school when it comes to providing the high-quality care you know you are capable of. 

By becoming S.E.E.D. Certified, every teacher at your school will know how to foster emotional, sensory, and language development. They’ll build their own tool boxes so they can approach their vital work from a place of self-awareness and self-regulation, creating an environment where adults and children thrive. 

Are you ready to see this

transformation at your school?

Is S.E.E.D. Certification right for your school?

S.E.E.D. Certification is perfect for schools that are looking for a confidence-building, supportive training around emotional development. This training will give your school the tools to implement a cohesive approach that helps teachers and tiny humans thrive.

For schools that want to say goodbye to the punishment/reward system that doesn’t adequately address tiny human’s emotions, and hello to an approach that supports everyone’s development, this is the program for you.

Educators who are ready to reflect on their ways of thinking so they can approach early childhood education from a place of awareness will get the most out of this training.

This work can feel challenging as we’ll ask teachers to really reflect on biases they might be bringing into the classroom. If teachers aren’t ready to engage with the process, S.E.E.D. Certification may not be right.

This work has never been more important or more needed.

Parents are seeking schools rooted in an inclusive, aware, and emotionally intelligent approach, and there has never been a more important time to understand the internal biases, triggers, and social programming we carry with us.

When they go unconfronted, our set ways of thinking contribute to burn out, frustration with our jobs, and a lack of tools to care for the tiny humans under our watch. 

Left unchecked, these biases play into a system of punishment/reward that leaves kiddos—our very motivation for getting into this work—disengaged from their education. In  the long run, this contributes to a school-to-prison pipeline where children of color are at a particular disadvantage.

Those of us working in early childhood education are in the best position to overcome these patterns and create a brighter future of emotionally intelligent humans.

If you are ready to reduce burnout at your school, attract parents with the promise of care that fosters emotional intelligence, and create a positive environment where everyone thrives, become S.E.E.D. Certified.

Rather than pay once for your teachers to attend a conference only to return without the support to implement what they’ve learned, give your teachers the ongoing resources to dive deeper into the curriculum and make lasting change in their classrooms. Plus, new hires will be given access to the content all year long.