Because the relationships we build in school shape the world we share.
meaningful work.
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Schools as places of joyful possibility
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I work alongside educators to create professional learning where teaching well and being well strengthen each other.
an award-winning teacher, international pedagogical consultant, best-selling author, and founder of the Pop-Up Studio approach.
Hi! I’m Dr. Misty–
For more than two decades, my work has focused on creating the conditions for educators and children to thrive together while achieving academic success. I bring together three priorities that matter deeply in schools: wellbeing, teaching, and student learning. Each one strengthens the others, and creative health offers a way to nurture all three simultaneously. Creative health refers to creative approaches and activities that support physical, mental, and social health and wellbeing.
The experience of teaching and learning can be a source of wellbeing, creativity, connection, and accomplishment for educators and children alike.
What does it mean to live well with children?
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The free Hosting Kit includes creative activities, role cards, invitation wording, planners, and examples to help you create your own Reading Social.
Just add a good book and good company :).
Bring creativity, connection, and joy to the books you read together. When you choose a great professional book, you’re investing in the ideas—and in the people who will learn from them. How you gather around those ideas matters, too. Reading Socials draw on the benefits of creative health to strengthen connection, participation, and enjoyment in professional learning.
make professional reading a social occasion.
FREE HOSTING KIT FOR EDUCATORS WITH BOOKS
Flourishing Teachers Collective is a dedicated community for creative, experienced teachers who want rich learning, companionship, and a place to create meaningful classroom work.
Find your people—and keep creating experiences you love, inside FTC.
Thought-provoking, research-informed, and interactive experiences that invite educators to think and feel differently about what’s possible for themselves, their students, and their schools.
Start a conversation your community will want to keep having.
Interactive, research-informed professional learning that gets educators thinking, making, and experimenting together—with practical ideas that you can bring straight back to your classroom.
Bring your colleagues together around something that matters.
Whether you’re planning professional learning for your school or looking for the professional community you’ve been missing, I have a place for you here.
How can I support you?
TRUSTED BY EDUCATORS AND SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD
— Kath Murdoch
Schools looking for support and advice from experts deserve educators with broad and deep lived experience, academic integrity, original thinking, and a sophisticated understanding of professional learning. Dr. Misty Paterson fits those criteria perfectly.”
I’ve recommended Misty to schools and drawn on her expertise in my own research and writing because I trust both the quality of her work and the way she works with educators.
Wellbeing. Teaching. Learning. Each one strengthens the others.
Creative health provides the rationale for why creativity, connection, and meaningful participation matter for wellbeing. My signature Pop-Up Studio approach provides the pedagogical framework for bringing those benefits into the experience of teaching and learning.
Educators experience the same artful, inquiry-rich practices they can adapt with students, bringing being well and teaching well into the same experience.
Rather than adding another wellbeing initiative to an already full plate, the Pop-Up Studio approach brings creativity, connection, and meaningful participation into daily life in schools—strengthening wellbeing, teaching, and student learning together.
