In this new course, learn how courage can boost well-being, help us navigate challenges, and stand up for our beliefs.
Standing up for what we know our students and schools need is hard.
Educators face enormous challenges these days. Disgruntled community members, outdated school policies, relentless workload and time pressures, and students’ growing mental health issues, to name a few. To face these challenges on a daily basis and not succumb to a world-weary sense of grief or Monday-morning dread requires COURAGE.
Courage in Education: Facing Challenges with Strength, Determination, and Hope is a new online course designed to inspire courageous action in you and your students—in classrooms, schools, and beyond.
Learn from researchers and educators who share how courage can help us to:
We hope you will join us as we explore the science of courage, listen to educators’ courage stories, and discover practical strategies for fostering greater courage in ourselves, our colleagues, and our students.
Courage bolsters our well-being.
Courage helps us to navigate social and emotional challenges.
Courage prepares us to take academic risks.
Courage emboldens us to stand up for our beliefs.
Courage undergirds authentic leadership and collegial trust.
Read more about the course and what you’ll learn.
The course is designed for busy education professionals. Each module includes a short video (approximately 5-8 minutes long) that provides brief instruction on one aspect of the science of courage, followed by reflection questions. The remainder of each module focuses on educators’ courage stories and practical applications of courage, providing numerous resources for incorporating courage into classrooms and schools. You can decide which video stories, articles, practices, and resources are most relevant and useful to you.
The course content will roll out over several weeks:
January 25, 2023
February 8, 2023
February 22, 2023
You will:
Download a packet about the course.
The Greater Good Science Center is funded entirely by donations and grants—we do not receive any financial support from the University of California, Berkeley. However, we are able to offer many of our GGSC resources for free because we charge for some of our courses. We do our best to make our courses and events affordable for everyone but realize that “affordable” can mean vastly different things depending on individual or geographic circumstances. Therefore, we are offering sliding scale rates for this course.
We do not ask for income verification; we trust that students will be honest about their financial situation. Please be mindful that if you purchase the course at a lower cost when you can truthfully afford the higher cost, you are limiting access to those who truly need the gift of financial flexibility. It also respects the work we do, and our desire to offer many other free resources to educators.
Please choose the rate that best matches your financial situation. If you are not sure which price level is appropriate for your circumstances, we’ve provided some guidance below:
$59 (Base Rate):
This cost reflects the true cost of the course, and is what we would charge all students in the absence of a sliding scale. Please pay this rate if you have access to financial security in the form of income or savings or do not stress about meeting your basic needs. Also, consider whether or not your school or organization can provide financial support for you to access the course.
$29 (Reduced Rate):
This cost reflects our acknowledgment that there are people whose economic circumstances would prevent them from having access to this course if expected to pay the full amount. Please pay this rate if you do not currently have financial security and/or regularly feel stress over meeting your or your family’s basic needs. USE THE CODE “COURAGE” AT CHECKOUT TO APPLY THIS RATE
Here is a professional development support pack that may also be helpful in gaining organizational funding for our courses.
If the reduced rate is still prohibitive and you need additional support, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at ggsceducation@berkeley.edu.
Acknowledgement to Alexis J. Cunningfolk for guidance around sliding scale fee language.
If you would like to enroll all of the educators (or a large number of educators) from your school, please reach out to us at ggsceducation@berkeley.edu to discuss additional payment options.
Amy L. Eva, Ph.D., is the associate education director at the Greater Good Science Center. During her twelve-year tenure as a teacher educator, she became particularly passionate about educator resilience and self-care, and she loves to conduct workshops that focus on teacher well-being. More about Amy Eva.
