We believe that better learning begins with understanding.

We are Authentic Education.

We believe that better learning begins with understanding.

We are Authentic Education.

AE’s Summer 2025 PD Series

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Announcing AE’s Summer 2025 Professional Development for Educators

AE delivers engaging, consequential, and enriching professional development for educators & we are excited to announce our Summer 2025 PD series.
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How To Hold Ourselves and Our Students Capable

Let’s take the time to reflect on how to hold ourselves and our students capable through the ways we talk and think about our students.
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Powerful Ways to Simplify Your Teaching Life

Letting go of activities in the classroom to simplify your teaching life is hard and it’s essential for growth, making space for new things, & to avoid burnout.
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Why Lunch is So Popular & Making It Count with the UbD Model

How can we, as educators, “UbD” lunch? Social connections are integral to development and a huge part of the learning that takes place within the school day.
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Authentic Education, founded by the late Grant Wiggins, co-author of the Understanding by Design Framework, is proud to support the national conferences put on by the National Association of Independent Schools.