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Section 01

Virtual Learning Community for Educators

Grow in community. At your own pace. From anywhere.

The Virtual Learning Community is an ongoing, global professional learning space for educators in the inquiry and concept-based world. Monthly live sessions, a curated resource library, peer collaboration, and direct access to me, structured across three tiers so you can join at exactly the right level for where you are right now.

A workshop is a spark. Membership is the sustained flame. This community exists for educators who want to keep growing between professional development days, with people who understand exactly the work they are doing.

Why membership

Professional learning should not stop when the workshop day ends. The VLC is designed to keep the thinking alive, with a community that understands exactly the work you are doing, wherever in the world you are doing it.

Cumulative

Cumulative Tiers

Every higher tier includes everything in the tiers below. Veterans can revisit foundations. New members have a clear path forward.

Intentional

Join Where You Are

The tiers are named for your stage of practice, not a judgement. An invitation. Start where you genuinely are, not where you think you should be.

Global

Genuinely Global

Sessions reach multiple time zones and recordings are always shared. Wherever your school is, you belong here.

Growing

An Obvious Next Step

When you have outgrown your tier, upgrading feels natural. The tiers mirror how good inquiry teaching works: revisit, deepen, and eventually lead.

What this looks like in practice

After an online workshop a while back, I received a message from one of the participants. She was a PYP coordinator who was finding some parts of the program genuinely hard to navigate and wanted to know if I could work with her across a series of sessions. It was, if I am honest, my first time sustaining that kind of ongoing coaching relationship with one person, and so I made a deliberate choice to let her lead the way.

I am so glad I did. Every session, we worked through whatever was in front of her that week. Sometimes it was a small, practical obstacle sitting right in the flow of the program. Other times we pulled back and looked at the bigger picture together, turning an idea over, examining its shape, asking what its impact might be if she let it grow. We never managed to get through everything. There was always more to think about than time allowed.

What I watched happen across those six sessions was something I did not expect to feel so moved by. Clarity emerged. Not all at once, but steadily. And alongside it, a confidence that had clearly always been there began to show up more fully in how she talked about her work and her role.

That is what membership makes possible. Short, specific, purposeful support, guided entirely by what you need at that moment in your practice. Not a program you follow. A conversation you return to.

When you are ready, I am here for you.

Not sure which tier fits your practice?

Take the five minute school readiness questionnaire. It maps where you and your school sit across the four CARE pillars and points you to the membership tier that fits where you are right now.

Find Your Membership Tier

Section 02

The Three Tiers

Choose your entry point.

All tiers are billed monthly or annually. Annual billing saves approximately 15 to 20 percent. Cancel anytime, no contracts, no lock-in.

How cumulative tiers work: An Exploring member has full access to all Wondering content plus their own extended resources. A Deepening member has access to everything across all three tiers. You never lose access to foundational material as you advance, because revisiting fundamentals deepens, not diminishes, expertise.
Tier One · Beginning Wondering

For educators exploring what strong school culture looks like

$25 / month
$240 / year Save $60 with annual billing
What's included
  • →Culture Foundations Library: resources on the forces shaping your school's culture
  • →Culture Mapping Guides: walkthroughs for building shared language and identifying where to begin
  • →Starter Tools and Templates: ready to use tools for examining your school's actions, beliefs, and conditions
  • →Monthly Community Session: 60 minute live session on school culture, recorded for async access
  • →Community Forum: connect with educators at a similar stage of the journey
  • →Culture Concept of the Month: a monthly deep dive into one Culture element

The starting point. For anyone ready to look honestly at their school culture and begin building something more intentional.

Start Wondering
Tier Two · Deeper Exploring

For educators going deeper into learner agency, identity, and equity

$45 / month
$430 / year Save $110 with annual billing
Everything in Wondering, plus
  • ↑All Wondering tier content and community access
  • →Agency Deep-Dive Library: resources on identity and equity and what genuine learner agency looks like in practice
  • →Agency by Design Series: recorded series on designing for learner voice, choice, and growth
  • →Bi Weekly Office Hours: live 45 minute drop-in sessions on agency in your school context
  • →Peer Collaboration Pods: small group pairings with educators on similar challenges globally
  • →Case Study Bank: anonymized examples of schools building genuine learner agency
  • →10% discount on curriculum clinics and open enrollment workshop registrations

The heart of the community. For educators ready to move beyond awareness into the real work of building agency and equity.

Coming Soon
Tier Three · Leading Deepening

For educators shaping how learners take active roles in learning

$85 / month
$815 / year Save $205 with annual billing
Everything in Exploring, plus
  • ↑All Wondering and Exploring content and access
  • →Monthly Private Q&A: exclusive 60 minute live session for complex challenges around Roles and Experiences
  • →Roles and Experiences Library: resources on learner movement and designing experiences that connect, grow, and impact
  • →Deepening Challenges: monthly provocations on how learners shape their own roles and experiences
  • →20% discount on clinics and workshops, plus priority on site calendar access
  • →Document Review Office Hours: live structured feedback on your planning documents twice per term
  • →Co-Facilitation Opportunities: experienced members may be invited to co-facilitate VLC sessions

For educators ready to ask hard questions about how learners experience learning and what it takes to let them truly shape it.

Coming Soon

Section 03

Compare Tiers

What's available at each level.

A full breakdown so you can find the right fit before you join. Every higher tier includes everything below it, so you never lose access to foundational content as you advance.

Feature Wondering Exploring Deepening
Resources & Library
Culture Foundations Library✓✓✓
Culture Mapping Guides and Starter Tools✓✓✓
Agency Deep-Dive Library--✓✓
Roles and Experiences Library----✓
Case Study Bank--✓✓
Live Sessions & Community
Monthly Community Session (recorded)✓✓✓
Community Forum✓✓✓
Bi Weekly Office Hours--✓✓
Peer Collaboration Pods--✓✓
Monthly Private Q&A----✓
Document Review Office Hours (2 per term)----✓
Discounts & Perks
Workshop Discount--10% off20% off
Open Enrollment Workshop Discount--10% off20% off
Priority On Site Calendar Access----✓

All tiers billed monthly or annually. Cancel anytime.

Section 04

School Team Plans

Bring your whole team.

Schools enrolling multiple staff members receive group pricing plus a private session each term for school-specific needs. All team plans are at Exploring tier or higher and can be paired with an on site workshop or consultancy visit for even greater impact.

Team · Up to 10 $250 / mo

Full Exploring access for up to 10 staff. One private school session per term. $2,400 per year.

Team · 11 to 25 $450 / mo

Full Exploring access for up to 25 staff. Two private sessions per term. $4,200 per year.

Deepening Team · Up to 10 $420 / mo

Full Deepening access for your curriculum or leadership team. Monthly group Q&A included. $4,000 per year.

Whole School · 25 or more Contact

Custom pricing for whole-staff enrollment. Often paired with an on site consultancy visit for maximum impact.

Ready to join?

Start where you are. Grow from there.

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    • guide >
      • the whole child
      • care framework
      • where-are-you-now
      • stop 4
    • culture-hub >
      • personal-culture
      • culture-development
    • agency-quest
    • roles-quest
    • experiences-quest
    • readiness questionnaire
    • develop culture
    • develop agency
    • develop roles
    • develop experiences
  • the framework
    • culture
    • agency
    • Roles
    • Experiences
  • culture workshops
  • agency workshops
  • roles workshops
  • experiences workshops
  • workshop pricing
  • membership
  • consultancy
  • consultancy pricing
  • retainer
  • testimonials
  • Community
    • blog >
      • blog history
    • book club
    • podcast
    • shout-outs
    • sketch club