What We Do
Professional Development for Educators & Teams
Practical, hands-on professional development for early years programs, schools, Nations, and organizations.
Choose from established sessions or work with us to shape professional learning around your team, community, and educational goals.
Learning Shaped Around Your Team
Every professional learning experience begins with a conversation.
We start with what matters to you: what your team is working toward, what educators want to understand more deeply, and what you hope becomes possible in practice.
From there, we shape a learning experience that is practical, participatory, and relevant to your setting.
Educators leave with ideas they can use, materials and approaches they can return to, and a clear place to begin.
Professional Development Sessions
Choose an established session or use these as a starting point for something shaped around your team.
Collapsible content
Story, Land & Living Language
A hands-on exploration of how story, land, language, and play can come together in everyday learning.
Bringing Place-Based Learning to Life
Practical approaches to learning rooted in place, relationship, observation, and children’s everyday experiences.
Living Language Through Everyday Practice
Explore ways language can live through play, routines, stories, materials, and everyday interactions.
Language Through Play, Story & Relationship
Create more opportunities for children to hear, use, explore, and return to language throughout the day.
Designing Intentional Invitations for Learning
Use materials, environment, observation, and educator intention to create rich opportunities for children’s thinking and exploration.
Creating Environments That Invite Wonder
Consider how materials and learning environments can support curiosity, investigation, and sustained engagement.
Pedagogical Narration: Notice, Name & Nurture
Use observation and documentation to notice what is happening in children’s learning and consider what might come next.
Bringing Juniper Tree Collections to Life
Practical professional learning for teams using Juniper Tree resources, with ways to extend the materials across everyday learning.
Looking for something different?
We can shape professional development around your existing work, resources, community context, and educational goals.
Where We’ve Gathered
We have been honoured to share professional learning with educators and communities in a range of settings.
- Stó:lō Nation
- Sq’ewqéyl First Nation
- Tŝilhqot’in National Government
- School District 53
- L’nuisultinej Conference, Eskasoni, Nova Scotia
From small teams to larger gatherings, the setting changes. Our focus stays practical: learning educators can carry into their everyday work.
What to Expect
Professional learning with Juniper Tree is hands-on, participatory, and grounded in practice.
Depending on the session, your team may:
- Explore learning materials and environments
- Work with story, language, land, and play
- Reflect and plan together
- Connect ideas to your own setting
- Leave with practical next steps
This isn’t professional development designed to end when the session does. The goal is to help educators know what they can do next.
Bring Juniper Tree to Your Team
Tell us about your team, what you’re working toward, and what you hope the learning will support.
We’ll help you identify the right place to begin.