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Safe and Supportive Learning Environments

Strengthen and integrate efforts to build and sustain equitable conditions for learning so that everyone in the education system can learn, grow, and thrive.

Through expert facilitation, coaching, and consultation, our multidisciplinary team helps K–12 education staff and leaders reflect on and adapt practices to shift values, mindsets, biases, and beliefs for transformational impact on individual, collective, and systemic levels. Together, we implement and sustain improvement efforts engaging staff, students, and families as partners to co-create equitable conditions for learning. 

How We Help

We help you implement, scale, and improve initiatives related to safe and supportive learning environments (SSLE) using an approach that meets your specific goals.  

Safe and Supportive Learning Environments Essentials 

The SSLE Essentials course is a nine-part professional learning series for K–12 staff and leaders. It provides practical and manageable insights to create and sustain safe and supportive learning environments. This series can be delivered onsite or virtually and includes synchronous learning and peer collaboration plus asynchronous practice and reflection.  

Safe and Supportive Learning Environments Deep Dives 

We offer a virtual series of Deep Dives designed to benefit educators in local educational agencies (LEAs), state educational agencies (SEAs), or related agencies wishing to explore the topics covered in Essentials in more depth.  

Each Deep Dive includes six 90-minute sessions via Zoom with approximately one hour of practice and reflection between sessions.  


Service Delivery

  • Online and onsite

Who Will Benefit

  • Teachers  
  • School and district Leaders (administrators, coordinators, directors)  
  • Supports and services personnel (counselors, psychologists, social workers, nurses)  
  • Regional and state educational agency leaders 

I got to witness healing happen in smaller groups, and that was really powerful. [The method of facilitating affinity groups] has become the way we converse with our team as we move forward.

— Participant of SSLE Deep Dive on Race and Healing

Featured Experts

Christina Pate

Christina Pate

Christina Pate is a people and culture strategy leader with over 20 years of experience directing data-driven, people-focused change within complex organizations. She specializes in strategic planning, learning and development, change management, organizational culture, and well-being.
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Krystal Wu

Krystal Wu (she/her) designs and facilitates transformational learning experiences at the intersection of racial equity and social and emotional learning. As a Program Manager…
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Connecting Research With Practice

Rather than adding another framework or program to pre-existing SSLE-related efforts, our offerings are designed to help you synthesize and apply a broad cluster of research-based content and culturally responsive practices. We emphasize collaboration and local contexts and prioritize language that removes stigma and simplifies similar or overlapping concepts. 

As new research and evidence-based frameworks emerge in the field, our team develops our curriculum iteratively with subject matter experts and field professionals alongside districts and state educational agencies. 

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