Professional development, speaking, and parent workshops that provide the strategies you need to nurture confident, capable kids
To provide parents, teachers, and community leaders with evidence-based practices and low-lift, high impact strategies for nurturing confident, capable kids
As a specialist in strengths-based learning, neurodiversity-affirming practices, giftedness, and executive functioning, I provide professional development that gives teachers the strategies they need to nurture confident, capable kids in the classroom, and through parent workshops, I provide parents with the tools they need to raise confident, capable kids at home.
I’m Orton-Gillingham trained and hold a certificate in Instructional Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. I’m also the founder of Joyfully Learning, a NYC-based private tutoring and educational consulting practice. My work and words have been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Parents, and more, and I present my work for parents’ groups, schools, and conferences nationwide.
From high-impact professional development to empowering parent workshops and inspiring speaking engagements, I provide practical strategies and evidence-based approaches that don’t increase the demands being made on parents and educators and appeal to folks seeking tangible solutions to improve family and classroom dynamics and their own quality of life.
Feel like your kids need a thousand reminders? Fighting nightly HW battles? Wonder what you need to do now so that your child isn’t struggling in a few years?
You are not alone. And I can help.
My parent workshops provide strategies that build kids’ independence, take the stress out of homework, and make no additional demands on parents’ time.You need an approach that works with the schedule you already have, not one that requires more time that you don’t have.
Parents are sick of workshops, books, articles, and social media memes that tell us to prioritize self-care, as though taking a shower or getting your favorite latte is going to solve the suffocating mental load and burden of invisible labor that leads us to burnout. My workshops provide what you really need: easy-to-implement strategies that make a big impact quickly.
Tackling topics like homework stress, kids’ executive functioning and parents’ cognitive load, the power of a strengths-based, neurodiversity-affirming approach, and more, I’m easing the mental and emotional toll that parents feel by providing sustainable strategies and targeted support for you and your community.
After my workshops, parents feel less overwhelmed, better supported, and clear about steps they can take to nurture confident, capable kids.
What are the strategic choices that teachers can make in the classroom to nurture a child’s executive functioning development so that we increase engagement with learning, reduce teacher turn-over, and improve student outcomes?
What does it take to build a neurodiversity-affirming culture that provides teachers and school leaders with real-world strategies to build authentic belonging, increase engagement with learning, and improve student outcomes?
Our professional development program is a proven, on-campus or virtual offering for school teams who want to deepen their understanding of executive functioning and/or neurodiversity, identify and strengthen their practices, and create a concrete strategy toolkit to implement in classrooms right now.
In our interactive, hands-on workshops, participants work together to develop strategies to meet learners’ needs based on the actual strengths and challenges you observe in your classrooms. Unlike other programs, everything you learn is practical and actionable, setting you up for long-term implementation success.
Caitlin is available as a keynote speaker and can discuss a variety of topics including strengths-based learning for raising confident kids, neurodiversity-affirming practices, the hidden dynamics of kids’ executive functioning and parents’ cognitive load, and more.
Education Confratute 2023 Presenter
Nurturing Executive Functioning in K‑4
Challenge Success Conference 2023 Presenter
Confident, Capable Kids: what we can learn from strengths-based, neurodiversity-affirming practices
Challenge Success Conference 2024 Presenter
Capable Kids: a strengths-based approach to executive functioning in the classroom and at home
Expert Speaker Series 2024 Speaker
Capable Inside: A Talk About Neurodiversity
Silver Center for Diverse Abilities Lecture Series 2024 Speaker
Capable Kids: A strengths-based approach to executive functioning
Imagine hearing these words: We don’t know how to help your child.
That was me, as a first-time mom.
You want better for your child, better school and family dynamics, and better for yourself.
Moms are exhausted by years of being gaslit, dismissed, or unsupported…until they meet my transformative approach.
Parents tell me that I’m changing their lives. It’s because ten years ago, my son transformed mine.
In addition to working with private clients as the founder of Joyfully Learning, my work has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, and Parents, and I speak for both professional and parent audiences.
I consult with independent schools and large public school districts, small businesses and mulitnational corporations, not-for-profit organizations and government agencies.
Teachers want low-lift, high-impact strategies that they can implement the same day they learn them and see immediate results. That’s what I provide.
Tired of PD that sounds great in the session and falls apart in implementation? Me too, so you won’t find that here.
I’m teaching material that your school team didn’t get in graduate school and needs to improve classroom culture and learning outcomes by making research-backed decisions rather than legacy-based ones.
— Parent
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