Support for the Whole Learning Community

Practical, evidence-based support for the people helping children learn, grow, and thrive.

Supporting children doesn't stop when the school day ends. Parents, educators, and learning communities are all navigating the complex world of behavior, regulation, executive functioning, independence, and learning, but they don't always have the tools or support they need.

Peaks of Joy partners with schools, homeschool programs, microschools, and other learning communities to provide practical support that meets people where they are.

Whether you're looking to equip families through a parent workshop or need individualized consultation for your program or students, we can create a partnership that fits your community.

Parent Workshops & Family Education: Give parents practical tools they can actually use at home.

Parents are often doing their best to navigate big behaviors, emotional regulation, executive functioning challenges, transitions, independence, and learning struggles, while trying to make sense of an endless stream of online advice and opinions.

A parent workshop offers something different: a place to learn, ask questions, and better understand what may be happening underneath the behavior.

Workshops are practical, engaging, and grounded in evidence-based approaches, with strategies families can take home and begin using right away.

Workshop topics can include:

Understanding Behavior: What's Really Going On?
Big Emotions & Regulation: for Kids and Parents
Executive Functioning: Why "Just Do It" Doesn't Work
Routines & Transitions Without the Constant Battle
Supporting Kids Who Learn Differently
Behavior, Boundaries & Connection
Helping Children Develop Flexibility & Coping Skills
Supporting Your Child Without Losing Yourself

Flexible options for your community

Organization-Sponsored
Your school or program brings Peaks of Joy in to provide a workshop for your parent community.

Community Workshops
Peaks of Joy hosts an accessible workshop that families can register for directly, allowing your community to offer valuable education without taking on the full cost.

Shared Partnerships
Your organization provides the space and helps spread the word while Peaks of Joy handles registration and workshop delivery.

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Support Your Program: School & Learning Community Consultation

Sometimes a challenge requires more individualized support.

Peaks of Joy partners with educators, administrators, teams, and learning communities to better understand complex student needs and develop practical, sustainable supports.

Consultation may include:

Individual student consultation
Behavior assessment and support
Functional Behavior Assessments (FBAs)
IEP consultation and development
Executive functioning support
Classroom systems and routines
Supporting student independence
Staff and paraprofessional support
Inclusion and special education practices
Progress monitoring and implementation
Family-school collaboration

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Professional Learning & Training: Build understanding across your team.

In addition to family workshops and individualized consultation, Peaks of Joy can provide professional learning for educators and teams.

Whether you're looking for a one-time training or ongoing professional learning, we'll work together to create something meaningful and practical.

Popular Training Topics

From present levels to meaningful, measurable goals
Strengthen the connection between student needs, present levels, goals, accommodations, services, and progress monitoring so the IEP becomes a useful educational roadmap rather than just a compliance document.
Writing measurable goals and monitoring progress without the overwhelm
Learn how to define meaningful outcomes, write observable and measurable goals, choose useful data, and use progress monitoring to make better instructional decisions.
Connecting behavioral needs to meaningful educational support
Explore how behavior, functional needs, goals, accommodations, services, supports, and progress monitoring can work together within the IEP.
Turn assessment into practical intervention
Move beyond completing the paperwork. Learn how to use functional assessment information to develop behavior supports that address why behavior is happening, teach meaningful skills, and can realistically be implemented by staff.
Match the support to the barrier
Move beyond copied-and-pasted accommodation lists and learn to identify supports based on the individual student's needs and the barriers affecting access, participation, and performance.
Support students without creating dependence on support
Learn practical strategies for prompting, reinforcement, skill building, environmental supports, and fading assistance to increase meaningful student independence.

Understanding behavior through a different lens
Move beyond labels like unmotivated, defiant, or attention-seeking. Learn how context, skills, environment, and learning history influence behavior and what that means for how educators respond.
Practical behavior support for real classrooms
Help educators understand what may be driving challenging behavior and respond in ways that reduce power struggles, teach skills, and support positive change.
The science behind engagement, effort, and follow-through
Explore why rewards, consequences, praise, and "trying harder" don't always work as expected and learn practical ways to create conditions that support student motivation and engagement.
Understanding the gap between knowledge and performance
Learn why knowing a skill doesn't guarantee using it and how educators can identify barriers to performance before assuming a student simply won't comply.
Helping students start, plan, organize, persist, and follow through
Turn executive functioning from a buzzword into practical strategies educators can use to support independence and success throughout the school day.
Learn how routines, expectations, prompts, reinforcement, classroom design, and everyday educator practices can prevent problems and make successful behavior more likely.

Looking for Something Different?

I can develop customized training around topics such as inclusive practices, neurodiversity, classroom systems, student engagement, transition planning, self-advocacy, family engagement, behavior support, staff performance, implementation, leadership, school-wide systems, and more. You can choose a focused workshop, half-day or full-day training, or build a professional development series around your district's priorities. Training can be customized for teachers, special educators, paraprofessionals, administrators, related service providers, or district-wide teams.

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Can district funding be used for parent support?

Depending on the student, program, district eligibility, and intended use, qualifying parent education and family support services may be supported through existing funding streams, including:

For eligible students, IDEA recognizes parent counseling and training as a related service when required to help a child benefit from special education, including helping families understand their child's needs and support implementation of the IEP.
Parent and family engagement funds may support qualifying family education and engagement initiatives.
Certain family engagement and student-support initiatives may qualify depending on the district's program and funding requirements.
Eligible rural districts may have additional flexibility to support parental involvement activities.

“Jenni was an engaging and knowledgeable presenter who made IEP goal-writing training both meaningful and practical. She did an excellent job making insightful connections to the specific roles and responsibilities of school-based professionals who attended. The training provided clear, relevant strategies that could be immediately applied to our day-to-day work.

I especially appreciated how Jenni provided actionable feedback and examples that allowed me to immediately implement what I learned following the training. Her approach was collaborative, supportive, hands on, and easy to understand - making the information feel accessible rather than overwhelming. I walked away from the training feeling more confident in my ability to develop smart, meaningful, measurable IEP goals and with practical tools I could use right away. Jenni’s expertise and ability to connect personally with attendees made the training extremely valuable. I still use the tools and strategies I learned from her sessions today!”

- Elementary School Psychologist & Child Study Team Member

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