Helping Educators Build Classrooms where Students Learn to Understand Themselves.
Learn with Lattimore supports teachers who want to move beyond compliance and create classrooms built on connection, student ownership, and meaningful engagement.
Teaching Feels Heavier Than Ever
Today’s classrooms ask teachers to carry more than ever before.
Educators are navigating behavior challenges, constant demands, and the pressure to meet every student’s needs—often without the time, support, or tools to do it in a meaningful way.
We’ve spent years focusing on the idea of knowing the whole child. Yet many students still struggle to understand themselves.
They may not know:
How they learn best
How to regulate their emotions
How to stay engaged in learning
Or what they need in order to succeed
And teachers feel that gap every single day.
A Different Way to Think About Classroom Culture
The RISE & GROW™ approach came from a simple realization
Knowing students isn’t enough. We also have to help students understand themselves.
For years, we’ve talked about “knowing the whole child.”
But today’s students also need help understanding themselves—how they learn, how they regulate, and how they grow.
Through the RISE & GROW™ approach, educators learn how to build classrooms that support both strong learners and strong humans.
RISE & GROW brings together the elements that make classrooms thrive—relationships, routines, engagement, and student voice—and aligns them in a way that builds:
Self Awareness
Self
Regulation
Ownership
of Learning
A Mindset
for Growth
This approach shifts classrooms from:
Compliance ► Ownership
Control ► Connection
Teacher-driven ► Student-aware & student-led
When Students Understand Themselves, Classrooms begin to feel different.
Students become more aware of themselves.
They recognize their emotions, manage their responses, and begin taking ownership of their learning.
Learning stops being something they simply complete—and becomes something they understand.
Teachers often notice:
Most importantly, the skills students build don’t stay in the classroom.
They carry them forward—into future learning and into life.
Deeper engagement in learning
Growing independence and confidence
Stronger relationships between students & teachers
Fewer behavior challenges rooted in dysregulation
Every educator’s journey is different.
Learn with Lattimore offers a range of opportunities designed to support teachers in practical, reflective, and meaningful ways.
Professional Learning Courses & Book Studies
Deep learning experiences that help educators explore classroom culture, student awareness, and practical strategies that support both engagement and regulation.
Workshops & Webinars
Interactive professional development designed to inspire reflection and provide ready-to-use ideas teachers can bring directly into their classrooms.
Classroom Tools & Ready-to-Use Resources
Practical materials that help educators implement concepts from the RISE & GROW framework in real classroom settings.
THE Upcoming Book
An upcoming book that brings together years of classroom experience and professional learning into one clear, cohesive approach—offering practical strategies for building classroom culture, student self-awareness, and a true sense of belonging.
A Lifetime of Supporting Educators
I have spent more than 30 years working in education—as a classroom teacher, instructional leader, Director of a Teacher Center, adjunct faculty member, and professional learning provider supporting educators across New York State.
Throughout my career, one question has guided her work:
How do we create classrooms where students don’t just succeed—but understand themselves as learners and as people?
That question continues to shape everything she creates, teaches, and shares with educators today.
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