The way we teach and empower students and their teachers includes “a first-person learning approach” by living inside a story. Participants are encouraged to use their imagination and innate ways of learning including moving, pretending, making sounds and images. SEL is foundational and is taught and practiced every day within diverse contexts.

Margaret Boersma OCT, Creator and Educator, serves as a consultant, coach, curriculum writer, workshop facilitator, thought leader and speaker. She loves to customize the work to fulfill on your learning goals. 

A few defining moments in her school life set Margaret on a course to make a difference with students everywhere. (Read “A Message from Margaret: Defining Moments”) Her desire to work with teachers to reach more students partners with her pursuits as a life-long learner. She specializes in creative education and social and emotional learning (SEL) involving brain compatible strategies to engage students in the learning process. 

Teaching Bio:

Margaret Boersma, OCT is "The Teachers' Coach." As a speaker, trainer, instructional coach and consultant, she also facilitates her Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Wisdom and Train the Trainer Mastermind programs for teachers and principals. After more than 30 years of teaching she founded, Creative Education in Action to impact more students by training educators.

Margaret focuses on heart-based strategies that has students thrive while lessening teacher workload as she assimilates SEL with academic curriculum goals. Having struggled as a student, Margaret’s life goal is to support all students in reaching their learning potential. Evidence-based teaching and authentic human connection is supported by her training in brain-compatible pedagogy with Dr. Eric Jensen and in her extensive training in the arts.

Margaret’s innovative training programs, including leadership and communication skills, enable participants to become competent in SEL and equipped to teach pro-active tools to students. Margaret co-authored a chapter, “EQ is the New IQ,” in Brian Tracy’s recent book, Emerge, and is working on her own book, “The Dynamic Teaching Model.” Her experience in teacher training extends to Canada, the U.S, the Netherlands, Brazil, India, and New Zealand/Australia.

Corporate Bio:

Margaret Boersma, OCT is an educational consultant, trainer, speaker with proficiency in Emotional Intelligence. Her career in teaching, combined with her expertise in social/emotional learning allows her to assimilate the affective domain (people skills) in the context of a company’s goals. In the role of a catalyst, her innovative programs are experiential in nature and have participants highly engaged in creating memorable and practical integration into their workplace.  Results are leadership skills, new models of communication and collaborative employees who embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. Margaret’s use of brain-compatible strategies to engage and internalize learning makes the transfer of knowledge to life impactful. She consults across Canada, the U.S. and Europe.