Educator Ally
Professional development.
Evidence-based tools to lighten the load
Support teaching and learning with personalized online training.
Educator Ally professional development solution equips educators with the tools they need to address behavior problems more effectively. With customizable support for every educator, Educator Ally has more than 120 lessons that reinforce a safe and supportive school culture and environment, build adult SEL skills, and address real world challenges including:
- cultural responsiveness
- classroom management
- best practices for fostering SEL competencies for students
- mental health supports for adults
When educators feel supported, their stress levels decrease, and their teaching practices improve. Our real-world skills training, nonjudgmental supports, and private, empathic approach eliminates fear of embarrassment or reprisal. Using our professional development, teachers and administrators grow in confidence and skill, which benefits staff morale, attendance, and classroom practices. Better classroom practices yield fewer behavior problems and better academic performance by students. Additionally, Administrators can support their teachers across any size school or district and provide CEUs by module toward certification.
The Educator Ally Difference
With customizable support for every educator, Educator Ally has more than 120 lessons that reinforce a safe and supportive school culture and environment.
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Develops Empathy
Our catalog of 120+ lessons helps teachers identify and respond to students’ challenges and struggles with empathy and understanding.
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Provides Educator Support
Educators are given the personal supports they need to address personal stress and challenges, which empowers them to be better instructors and classroom leaders.
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Effective SEL implementation
By learning to recognize and address the SEL needs of students, educators become more effective implementers of SEL programs within a classroom or group setting.
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Improved Classroom and School Environments
Less stressed, well-balanced educators who are equipped with SEL implementation tools build a healthier, happier overall school environment with less discipline problems and higher academic achievement.
Educator stress is staggering problem nationwide
90% of teachers nationwide are actively disengaged or not engaged in their work.
54% feel unprepared or very unprepared to respond to students’ behavior problems.
Educator Ally lightens the load by:
- Recognizing and empathizing with educator challenges
- Empowering educators to solve students’ emotional and behavioral problems
- Increasing educators’ responsiveness to learning differences
- Promoting educators’ cultural competence
- Helping educators address disproportionate discipline
- Fostering staff leadership and social-emotional abilities
- Supporting effective implementation of student SEL programs
- Enabling implementation in a wide range of settings
Teachers are under tremendous pressure in good times. Now their responsibilities and challenges are greater than ever. Just in time, Educator Ally is here. Right on their cell phones is a PD Department’s worth of advice and support, an ingenious tool they will value for years to come
Dr. Maurice Elias,
Director, Social-Emotional and Character Development Lab, Rutgers University.x