Secure Base Practice Collection
A practical way for educators, teams, and school leaders to respond more steadily when a pattern around a child keeps repeating.
A child may be having a hard time.
A classroom team may be responding in different ways.
Or an educator may be carrying more than one person can reasonably hold.
The Secure Base Practice Collection helps a school pause, notice what is actually happening, choose one thoughtful next move, and return to see what changed.
It is built around a simple idea:
Children are affected not only by the adult in front of them, but by the conditions surrounding that adult.
Inside the collection
- Start Here
- A brief guide to choosing the right practice for the concern at hand.
- Educator Practice Map
- A private one-week reflection for one educator noticing a recurring pattern with a child.
- Classroom Team Practice Map
- A shared one-week practice for adults who work with the same child and need greater clarity, consistency, and support.
- Institutional Practice Map
- A leadership tool for examining the conditions that shape adult capacity: clarity, staffing, workload, authority, communication, follow-through, and repair.
- Internal Facilitator Guide
- Guidance for leading an honest, bounded institutional practice cycle.
- Classroom Team Plan Example
- A completed fictional example that shows how observation can become one small shared plan.
How it works
The goal is not for every adult to become identical.
The goal is for children to experience adults who can communicate, hold clear limits, seek support, and return after difficulty.
For schools that want to build adult practice with more care
For Montessori, independent, public, charter, and small schools; classroom teams; instructional coaches; student-support teams; and leaders who want a more thoughtful way to work with repeated patterns.
One purchase includes internal use and printing for one institution.
The adult is part of the prepared environment.