Teach Like Their Lives Depend On It: Because they do.

What you'll study and why it matters in your classroom

Every part of TLLD connects to peer-reviewed research on how safety, relationship, and self-regulation shape learning. But this isn't a theory course. It's a framework you'll practice, apply, and take back to your classroom.

Trauma-Informed Foundations

Brain-Based Classroom Practice

SEL and Restorative Approaches

Student Agency and Self-Regulation

Building the conditions for students to develop genuine self-regulation — not compliance — and the instructional moves that support agency across diverse learners.

How adverse experiences reshape attention, memory, and behavior — and what that means for every instructional decision you make. This isn't about diagnosing trauma. It's about teaching resilience.

How the brain actually learns: co-regulation, predictable structures, memory storage and retrieval, and executive functioning. The conditions that let working memory actually work.

Social-emotional learning and restorative practice — not punitive, not passive. Grounded in respect, centered in practice, and applied to real classroom situations.

• Who This Is For

Built for teachers who know something is missing

Whether you're in your first year or your fifteenth, if your students' behavior, disengagement, or dysregulation feels beyond what your training covered, then this course was designed for that gap.

New teachers, veteran educators, instructional coaches, school administrators, and international ESL educators all find footing in the TLLD framework. Plain language, cited sources, no jargon shortcuts.

A progressive online learning experience built so you can teach and learn at the same time.

TLLD is a 4-course series designed to fit into your life as a working educator. No travel. No week away from your classroom. Approximately 30 hours of focused work across the full series.

Self-Paced Lessons

Work through each course on your own schedule. The content is structured so you build skills progressively. Each course connects to the next.

How it works

Monthly Live Coaching

Join live sessions for discussion, application questions, and real conversation about what you're experiencing in your classroom. These aren't lectures, they're working sessions.

Video Review Activities

Watch real classroom footage and practice identifying the concepts you're learning, in real time. This is where theory becomes recognition.

Case Study Evaluations

Analyze real scenarios. Present your thinking. Get feedback. This is where recognition becomes practice.

Learning Assessments

Built-in checkpoints throughout each course so you know where you stand, no surprises at the end. If something needs attention, you'll know early.

Capstone Video

Each course ends with you demonstrating what you've learned, applying it in a real lesson or series of lessons. Evaluated using a rubric you'll have from day one, discussed throughout, and used as a tool for growth.

Tuition

Single Course
$375 USD

One course in the TLLD series. Includes self-paced lessons, monthly live coaching, video review activities, case study work, assessments, capstone evaluation, and course completion credential.

Full Program
(4 Courses)
$1,300 USD

Save $200 when you enroll in the complete series. Includes everything across all four courses, plus the Extraordinary Educator Certification and digital badge.

Schools & Districts

Group discounts are available for 3 or more educators. Full-staff professional development packages are also available at a flat institutional rate. Ideal for grant-funded initiatives. Request Group Info

Limited partial scholarships may be available for individual educators. Contact hello@teachwithrespect.org to inquire.

Teach With Respect's guarantee: You do your part, you WILL succeed

Support is built into every step.
You have direct email access to your instructor with a 1–2 business day response guarantee.

This isn't designed to weed people out. It's designed to make sure every participant walks away ready.