Schools Excelling in Emotional Development (S.E.E.D.) Certified Schools
The new wave of professional development for early childhood educators
An online professional development training that gives your teachers the support they need to implement their lessons
You chose this work because you care deeply about kids, and you put your all into providing excellent care for them and their families. You know the teachers at your school show up every day for the same reasons.
Yet, you’ve started to notice a concerning trend: the amazing educators you work with are burnt out. They’re faced with the same challenging behavior day after day and they are running out of tactics to try that will be effective and nurturing. Your teachers are asking for training to help them deal with challenging behavior and big emotions.
You search for professional development programs that will give your teachers the tools they desperately need. Every time you think you’ve found a great professional development training program, the lessons and excitement from the events only last a few days, a week if you’re lucky. That’s not because the training was bad, it’s because they weren’t given the proper time to reflect on the lessons, practice them, and incorporate them into their routine workdays.
Even more, it’s challenging to have a cohesive approach to your school’s classrooms when new employees come and go and aren’t always able to attend the same professional development training.
You worry about where you can find the type of ongoing support your school needs
What if all the teachers at your school had the tools to provide care from a confident, regulated place? What if every new teacher that joined your program had access to the same high-quality professional development with no additional cost for you? What if the high level of burnout you’ve been seeing disappeared? Instead, every educator at your school ends their day feeling energized because they are fostering collaboration and trust with the kiddos and families they interact with. You feel good about the investment you’re making in your school’s professional development today, because it will serve your current teachers with ongoing support all year, and will be available to new hires to come.
You confidently tell parents that every one of your teachers has gone through training on emotional, sensory, and language development, as well as done work on anti-bias and self-awareness in the classroom, so that their children’s emotions are validated.
It’s possible.
Introducing S.E.E.D. Certification
Calling on her own experience as a teacher and director and the burnout she saw, Seed & Sew founder Alyssa Blask Campbell, M.Ed., has collaborated with other experts in the ECE field to develop a comprehensive, practical certification program for childcare centers and home based care providers like yours.
Pay Once. Get Training and Resources for Teachers (and Parents) All Year Long.
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.
Build emotional intelligence into early childhood education.
What to expect
By becoming certified, schools receive:
Special Bonus
All families in the school get access to our Tiny Humans, Big Emotions (THBE) course to bridge the home-to-school connection and help parents and caregivers build their toolbox to implement this work in collaboration with teachers.
We offer S.E.E.D. Certification and Tiny Humans, Big Emotions in English and Spanish to support bilingual educators in doing this important work cross-culturally.
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:
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?
What is S.E.E.D. Certification?
S.E.E.D. Certification and Tiny Humans, Big Emotions are available in English and Spanish.
Valued at $31,425+
Let's talk about pricing
Individual Home Care Program
$1,875
Home-Based Networks
50+ Home Programs: $1,775/school
100+ Home Programs: $1,675/school
200+ Home Programs: $1,575/school
Child Care Centers
0-50 kids: $2,097
51-100 kids: $2,497
101-200 kids: $3,197
201+ kids: $3,497
Organizations with more than 50 childcare centers, contact us for pricing.
Way better bang for your buck than sending all of your teachers to a conference! Ongoing support plus access for all your future teachers!
About Seed & Sew
Seed & Sew is a village of people across the globe raising emotionally intelligent humans. With over 40,000 people in our village, we are parents, educators, ECE experts, and lifelong learners who value progress over perfection and have a passion for doing this work so we can foster healthy development in our tiny humans. Seed & Sew offers training in emotional development, sleep, and reparenting through online and in person workshops, coaching, and more to make this possible, and our engaged social media followers and faithful podcast listeners have created a shame-free online village.
Meet Alyssa
An emotional development expert and the co-creator of the Collaborative Emotion Processing (CEP) method, Alyssa Blask Campbell is committed to helping parents and caregivers build emotional intelligence in their tiny humans.
Alyssa grew up in a village in the traditional sense, with grandparents down the street in a neighborhood where everyone knew each other’s name. Throughout her teens, she supported single and working moms, nannying all through college and beyond. Alyssa went on to get her master’s degree in Early Childhood Education, and found her soul fulfilled as she walked alongside folks committed to raising emotionally intelligent humans.
Through Seed & Sew, she provides training, coaching, and ongoing support to parents and caregivers around emotional development, reparenting, and sleep. Alyssa is a small town Vermonter and you can hear her talk about all things emotional development on her podcast, Voices of Your Village, which is currently tuned into from over 100 countries worldwide.
Meet your other S.E.E.D. instructors
Jasmine Price, M.Ed, PhD candidate
Jasmine Price has always loved her work with children and families. She began her educational studies at Kent State University in 2013, as a student in the Early Childhood Education teacher preparation program and received her Masters in Early Childhood Education in 2019. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Interprofessional Leadership. Her passion is working with children and all of the joy that they bring to the classroom. She enjoys being able to work in a way that values children as leaders in curriculum and that is truly centered around the interest of the child.
Lori Goodrich, OT
Lori Goodrich is an occupational therapist who, during her 18 year of practice, has developed expertise in sensory integration, neurodevelopmental techniques, and feeding/mealtime therapy. Lori utilizes her knowledge in these core areas, alongside an ever-evolving understanding of other factors that influence the human experience, in order to provide a range of services for clients of all ages and abilities. She is passionate about providing accessible and meaningful educational opportunities for parents and professionals in order to support the needs of the community and those in it. She feels fortunate to be able to share information in a wide variety of platforms including workshops, consultations, courses and podcasts. In addition to her love for all things sensory and OT, Lori enjoys learning new art modalities and spending time in nature.
Dr. Lynyetta Willis
Dr. Lynyetta Willis is a psychologist, family empowerment coach, and creator of The Conscious Educator Awareness Triangle, a self-empowerment system for educators and child caregivers dedicated to building stronger, more compassionate relationships with young people. Committed to facilitating the individual and collective strengthening of families, Dr. Willis shows her clients and audiences how to recognize and heal toxic behavioral patterns and intergenerational traumas. Dr. Willis’s work stands in the sweet spot between social justice and self-improvement. For over 20 years she has facilitated workshops and training for parents, partners, and educators. Her signature program, Triggered to Transformed™, helps parents and child caregivers work with their emotional triggers and create personalized strategies to deal with their children’s difficult behaviors. In addition to being an adjunct faculty member with the University of Georgia, Dr. Willis has served as an organizational consultant for public and private schools, non-profit organizations, and churches.
Emily Lesher, MS-CCC-SLP
Emily Lesher is the Lead Speech Language Pathologist at OTA the Koomar Center in Newton, Massachusetts. Emily has her certificate of clinical competence from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) and is licensed to practice speech-language pathology within the state of Massachusetts. She received her Master of Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Ithaca College in 2010, and a bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Nazareth College in 2008. She has experience working with children with a broad range of diagnoses and abilities in school-based, clinic-based, and early intervention settings. She has a DIR Floortime® Basic Certificate and is certified in the Hanen© Programs: It Takes Two to Talk®, More than Words®, and TalkAbility™.
Is S.E.E.D. Certification right for your school?
Cost shouldn’t be a barrier to providing high-quality care. We created the S.E.E.D. Certification Scholarship Program to support schools who are providing care for marginalized communities.
The scholarship program is designed so we can all pitch in to support children getting access to high-quality childcare. The scholarship program will prioritize schools with BIPOC and low income families.
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How does it work?
How long do you have access to the workshops?
When do parents get access to Tiny Humans, Big Emotions?
What does the ongoing support look like?
If a new teacher is hired, can they get access, too?
Do the workshops count for Professional Development?
We’re always so busy at our school—I’m worried people won’t actually do the workshops.
Luckily, we have a nifty built-in accountability tool with our training: we can track on the backend and can see exactly how much of a workshop someone has completed. This helps ensure you can all stay on track and encourage one another to complete the workshops.
Isn’t doing online live training more engaging?
It can be for some folks. What we love about providing our workshops in the online, on-demand format is that busy teachers can learn at their own pace. Our training gives them the ability to ask questions as they go, and rewatch any workshops they want. Our format also means new hires get access to the same content, and it comes with a workbook to guide them along each workshop.
What is S.E.E.D. Certification?
S.E.E.D. Certification and Tiny Humans, Big Emotions are available in English and Spanish.
Valued at $31,425+
Let's talk about pricing
Individual Home Care Program
$1,875
Home-Based Networks
50+ Home Programs: $1,775/school
100+ Home Programs: $1,675/school
200+ Home Programs: $1,575/school
Child Care Centers
0-50 kids: $2,097
51-100 kids: $2,497
101-200 kids: $3,197
201+ kids: $3,497
Organizations with more than 50 childcare centers, contact us for pricing.
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.
