Connecting Through Conversation

We believe what you say and how you say it matter.

Leveraging over forty years of combined experience, Erika and Tiffany are on a mission to empower every educator to transform student behavior and build a culture of connection in their school communities.

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We inspire and equip educators with immediately applicable moves to build connected relationships for learning, avoid power struggles, and apply communication as a universal support for students, colleagues, and caregivers.

Course Launch

Course Launch ☆

Limited Time Only

Online Course: Transforming Student Behavior by Harnessing the Power of Connection
$350.00
One time

Are you looking for effective ways to transform student behavior? We’re excited to offer a new and exclusive online course designed to help educators manage and navigate student behavior with confidence. Learn immediately applicable and practical strategies to de-escalate situations, avoid power struggles, improve communication, strengthen relationships and build a culture of connection in your school communities.


✓ Earn PDUs!
✓ Certificate of Completion
✓ Useful tools and downloadable worksheets
✓ Exclusive Offers
✓ Learn strategies today. Transform student behavior tomorrow!
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Do you talk to kids at school?

If so, this book is for you.

Whether we talk to big kids or little kids, we all have one thing that connects us. We all love children.

“At the very heart of education is connection.”

Building a culture of connection requires strong communication skills. This book will give educators these skills, along with tools, strategies, and templates to create a culture of connection in schools.

Become a Member

Become a Connected Communicator Now

Connected Communicater Club Member
Free

As a member, you gain access to a wealth of resources and exclusive content tailored to your interests.


✓ Access to free resource guides
✓ Access to a free study guide
✓ Exclusive offers
✓ Behind-the-scenes content

Let’s Work Together

  • All educators care about kids, they just don’t always have the knowledge and skills to effectively show it. Engaging in a fully customizable Book Study will give educators the tools they need to create a culture of connection.

  • IN PERSON, REMOTE, OR HYBRID

    Personalized coaching and consulting will help leaders build staff capacity and gain the tools needed to navigate challenging behaviors with students, staff, and caregivers with increased confidence and effectiveness.

  • NATIONAL AVAILABILITY

    With a fast-paced and humorous approach, speaking engagements are designed and tailored for every educator - and everyone who talks with students is an educator.

  • NATIONAL AVAILABILITY

    Support your team in learning how to transform student behavior through engaging content, model demonstrations, and back-pocket strategies.

Keep your cool when the heat is on! So much of our job success depends on the strength of our communication. This course will increase our communication skill set and help navigate the tricky conversations that are guaranteed to come our way. Together, we will explore practical strategies to ensure you remain calm when things get heated, and help others catch that calm from you as you work towards resolution. We will apply communication strategies to de-escalate and diffuse potentially explosive situations, as well as discuss ways to avoid escalation in the first place. Additionally, we share a number of practical and immediately applicable strategies to build and repair connection in these increasingly divisive times. Learn strategies and tools today that you can use tomorrow!

3-Part Webinar Series
In Collaboration with Cosa
When the Heat is On: Communicating Through Conflict

  • Enter into difficult conversations with increased skill and confidence

  • Learn practical ways to remain calm when things get heated - and help others catch your calm

  • Explore tools to defuse potentially explosive situations, and how to avoid escalation in the first place

  • Leave with immediately applicable strategies to build and repair connection in these increasingly divisive times

"What you say and how you say it matter."

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