Teacher Training & Mastery Program
Solutions for promoting educators’ emotional well-being, and children’s, mental health, academic achievement, and character & moral development through the teaching of emotional intelligence.
Transform Early Childhood Education
begin to ECSEL ® Training & Mastery Program improves classroom behavior and enhances educators’ job satisfaction.
Classroom behavioral issues among children and growing teacher burnout are serious issues in early childhood education. Overwhelmed teachers cannot teach, and emotionally dysregulated children cannot learn
For decades, the focus has been conflict-resolution – without addressing the root cause of the behavioral & emotional dysregulation.
begin to ECSEL ® Training & Mastery evidence-based & research proven program, teaches emotional intelligence skills to both educators and children, transforming the learning experience that leads to emotional well-being and academic success.
Our program includes self-paced professional learning & training where educators are supported every step of the way.
Our ECSEL program and tools are seamlessly interwoven throughout every day – all day.
Our Unique Evidence-Based ECSEL Approach
1 Promoting Healthy Brain Development from Birth and Beyond
- Although children are born ready to learn—equipped with emotion as their first language—the skills for controlling impulses, regulating emotions, and maintaining focus are not innate.
- Positive emotional learning experiences, together with empathetic and supportive relationships, strengthen neurological connections in fostering healthy brain development. When children are better able to manage intense emotions, their brain’s resources are better able to perform important executive function skills, such as attention, working memory, and problem-solving—all essential for learning.
2 Supporting Educators’ Emotional Well-Being
2 Supporting Educators’ Emotional Well-Being For educators and caregivers to be able to model and guide children to deal successfully with their emotions, they must first be able to understand and manage their own emotions, stress, and anxiety.
3 Mentorship & Coaching Model
3 Mentorship & Coaching Model The begin to ECSEL® training program offers a strong system of reflective practice and ongoing support through our mentoring, coaching and global online shared community platform.
4 Promoting Behavioral Change
4 Promoting Behavioral Change With the begin to ECSEL®- program, educators address the causes of dysregulated emotions and behaviors to promote behavioral change while fostering agency and self-control.
5 Fostering Character & Moral Development
5 Fostering Character & Moral Development Building essential skills, including empathy, prosocial behaviors, acceptance, perspective taking, compassion, and kindness, promotes character and moral development.
6 Our Research-Proven Outcomes
6 Our Research-Proven Outcomes Our research proves children who experience the begin to ECSEL® program significantly outperform their peers nationally in key measures of emotional competence, self-regulation, empathy, executive functions and academic achievement.
7 Parent & Family Engagement
7 Parent & Family Engagement The begin to ECSEL® strategies extend to home, guiding parents in fostering responsive relationships by underscoring their critical understanding of their emotional responses and the importance of modeling emotional regulation.
What You Get
The begin to ECSEL ® Mastery & Training Program provides 12 asynchronous courses, coaching and a global online
community. All courses are 2 hours long and contain a pre-assessment, 3 learning modules, and a post-assessment.
8 Teacher Courses focused on placing emotional intelligence at the heart of teaching and learning to support educators, children and families.
Live Coaching Calls focused on reflective practice for mentors & directors.
4 Mentor Courses focused on how to implement Reflective Practice and to provide systemic support in your school community.
Global Support Network with peers through an online community platform at school, district, and/or global levels.
All-Staff Orientation to provide a smooth onboarding support for your institution.
Program Syllabus
Teacher Courses
Teacher Course 1
Introduction to begin to ECSEL
Teacher Course 2
Your Own Emotionality
Teacher Course 3
Getting to Know Emotion
Teacher Course 4
Emotion in the Heat of the Moment
Teacher Course 5
Connecting Emotions & Learning
Teacher Course 6
Empathy, Acceptance & Prosocial Behaviors
Teacher Course 7
begin to ECSEL Tools & Trauma-Informed Techniques
Teacher Course 8
ECSEL in the Everday Classroom for All Learners
Mentor-Focused Courses
Mentor Course 1
Introduction to Reflective Practice
Mentor Course 2
A Deeper Dive into Reflective Practice in Action
Mentor Course 3
Extending Reflective Practice to Communication with Co-workers
Mentor Course 4
Extending Reflective Practice to Communication with Families
ECSEL Tools
In-classroom tools support ECSEL implementation in your classrooms.
Our Emotions® Cards
Talk about feelings anytime, anywhere
With 15 emotions and feelings and a child-safe mirror card, this portable tool helps even the youngest learners identify, understand and express how they feel.
Appropriate for infants and up.
Our Emotions® Board
Build emotional knowledge – one check-in at a time
Help children label and understand their emotions throughout the day with a visual, collaborative tool for self-reflection and group connection.
Appropriate for toddlers and up.
Begin to MakePeace™ Table
A peaceful place for big feelings and conflict resolution
This 8-step guided MakePeace process helps two and more children work through problems with empathy and calm—turning tough moments into teachable ones.
Appropriate for preschoolers and up.