THE CTTL PRESENTS
2027 Winter Webinar Series
Series recordings available for $99. Email info@thecttl.org for details
Join Us For The 2027 Winter Webinar Series
Belonging, the Brain, and Fearless Learning
Fear is a powerful emotion in every student’s learning journey. It can narrow attention, inhibit risk-taking, and shape whether students feel they belong. Fear can also signal that something matters and invites students to feel safe enough to take intellectual risks.
Early in the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning’s work, the research team came across the quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti: “Fear prevents the flowering of the mind.” Since then, the CTTL has developed resources and tools–such as its Belonging Braid, Mind, Brain, and Belonging Network, and Enhanced Simple Model of Learning– to help teachers and school leaders provide the environment, experiences, challenge, and support for students to overcome their fears and elevate their learning.
This Belonging, the Brain, and Fearless Learning webinar series invites early childhood, elementary, middle, high school, and collegiate educators to explore how belonging, emotion, psychological safety, and challenge interact in the learning brain and mind through three virtual sessions on January 28, February 4, and February 11, 2027 from 7-8:15pm EDT. Participants will leave with tools and frameworks to help them create the conditions where students can move beyond fear, think deeply, make mistakes, persist, and flourish in our classrooms, hallways, stages, sports fields, and school communities.
Why This Matters for Your Professional Growth:
- Teachers gain research-informed strategies at the intersection of emotion and cognition to inform their instructional design and how they challenge and support each student’s academic, social, emotional, and identity development . . . without fear.
- Students don’t have to get lucky to have a teacher who understands the brain and belonging . . . without fear.
- Administrators invest in professional development that builds staff capacity around belonging, student achievement, and evidence-informed practices—creating a shared language and framework across your school or district. . . without fear.
Featured Expert Speakers
Dr. Zaretta Hammond
She is author of two books: Rebuilding Students’ Learning Power: Teaching for Instructional Equity and Cognitive Justice (Corwin, 2025) and Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (Corwin, 2015). Ms. Hammond is a former high school and community college writing instructor. For the past 25 years, she has supported schools and other institutions in deepening their understanding of the integration of culturally responsive practices, cognitive science, and the “craftmanship of learning”. In addition, she has written articles and book chapters on these topics for educators. She offers several popular programs aimed at making the science of learning practical and impactful at the classroom level.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Three Professional Development Webinars
4 Professional Development Hours and Certificate of Completion
Each attendee receives a certificate for 4 hours of professional learning and development.
Three Take-home Translation Tools
Inspiring Expert Speakers
Each of the three sessions will be facilitated by the CTTL team and feature an expert speaker on various topics surrounding belonging and its impact on student well being and student achievement.
Why the CTTL is Talking About Belonging
Creating Spaces of Belonging for LGBTQ+ in Our Schools
Supporting Neurodiversity in Our Classrooms
PRICING
$99
Per Person
$89
Group Registration
Sale ends February 11, 2026
Questions?
For any questions about the 2025 recordings or the upcoming 2026 Winter Webinar Series, please contact us at info@thecttl.org
PRICING
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Standard Registration Individual
$125
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2024 WINTER WEBINAR SERIES SESSIONS
Race & Ethnicity
January 25, 2024
Speaker: Afrika Afeni Mills
Tool: The Equitable Learning Framework (ELF) helps teachers plan their professional growth journey to help them navigate race and ethnicity through the lens of DEB and MBE and support equitable learning for all students.
Gender & Sexuality
Speaker: Sara Staley, Bethy Leonardi
Tool: The Belonging Braid helps teachers support a whole child approach to student growth and wellbeing by interweaving social and academic factors.
Neurodiversity
February 8, 2024
Speaker: Kade Friedman
Tool: The MBE-DEB Venn helps teachers examine current strengths and areas for growth at the intersection of MBE and DEB, for both individuals and institutions to better support neurodiverse students.
BECOME A PARTNER SCHOOL
When you commit to sending more than two classroom teachers and one school leader to three consecutive years of the Academy, your school is eligible to become an Academy Partner School and receive several benefits, including:
There are several avenues to partnering with the CTTL and joining the community as an individual or as part of a school cohort. Those avenues include enrolling in a Neuroteach Global micro-course, participating in a CTTL-led workshop, or attending one of our learning events. The investment in partnering with us will yield benefits that include access to all free CTTL resources. Click below to learn more.
TESTIMONIALS
Testimonials gathered from anonymous survey data where teachers report that their MBE training from the CTTL has led to significant changes in their practice.