Educators creating safe, challenging, and joyful elementary schools
Educators creating safe, challenging, and joyful elementary schools
The Responsive Classroom approach is a widely used, research-backed approach to elementary education that increases academic achievement, decreases problem behaviors, improves social skills, and leads to more high-quality instruction.
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Teachers Talk about the Responsive Classroom Approach
"The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning-every teacher should know about it."
–Daniel Goleman, author
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Building Academic Communities Through the Arts (BACTA) is a weeklong workshop for teachers looking to integrate storytelling, visual art-making, singing, movement, and poetry into the learning day. The point of the workshop is to empower children toward high achievement by providing them multiple doorways into learning.
$695
Responsive Classroom 1 or Developmental Designs 1 is a prerequisite for this workshop.
To register for this workshop, please download a registration form.









