We facilitate engaging trainings and design creative content to help kids succeed. We genuinely care about every kid. The sad ones. The angry ones. The falling-between-the- cracks ones.
Collectively, the team at Optimistic Teaming has spent countless hours with kids who are struggling in one way or another. The impact these children have had on each of us has been profound. We genuinely care for kids and we have not only witnessed the despair, rage, and loneliness in their lives, but the joy, laughter, and belonging as well. We infuse our hopeful message into every training. Why? Because we care deeply about the well-being of kids. We know you do, too.
…Unless her PD is totally engaging, laugh-out-loud funny and loaded with best practices in mental health, special education, and behavior management. We have spent the last decade refining our programs and practices through hundreds of training seminars and evaluations with hard-working educators to deliver, well, pure happiness.
Does this sound too good to be true? We respect that, but we also reject that. Our educators spend their whole professional lives forced to “settle” for the status quo professional development (which is, by all accounts, boring, patronizing, empty, and out of touch.) As a result, educators are often left with only bits and pieces of the tools they actually need to make a meaningful difference in the life of a child.
If we ask our educators to settle, we are essentially asking our students to settle—and that is not acceptable. Instead of the status quo, let Optimistic Teaming deliver the goods with: