We Believe Every Child Deserves a Regulated Adult
The Yes, AND Foundation is a Kansas City nonprofit helping students, educators, parents, and communities access practical, brain-based tools for regulation, resilience, and shared language.
Adult-first. Child-centered. Science and research-backed.
We help the people surrounding children respond with intention, repair when needed, and create safer spaces for learning, connection, and growth.
You're in the right place
If you care about helping children feel safe, supported, and understood, this work is for you.
Yes, AND supports parents, educators, and students with practical tools for regulation, resilience, and real-life connection.
Children do not need perfect adults.
They need adults who are willing to pause, learn, repair, and keep showing up.
That is where this work begins.
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For Schools, Organizations, and Community Partners
If you want Dr. Courtney Bishop to bring this framework into your school, team, organization, or community, explore partnership and speaking opportunities.
Courtney uses the Yes, AND Framework to support professional learning, leadership development, parent education, and custom learning experiences grounded in real-life application.
For Parents, Caregivers, and Educators
If you want practical tools you can begin using right now, start with Raising Regulated AND Resilient Humans.
This self-paced course helps adults understand how the brain influences behavior, stress, learning, and connection, so they can support children with more regulation, resilience, and intention.
For Ongoing Learning and Reflection
If you want to keep learning before taking a next step, explore Courtney’s writing and free resources.
Her blog and newsletter unpack the framework through stories, brain science, reflection, and practical tools for everyday life.
For Community Connection & Growth
Join The Yes, AND Foundation for community-centered events designed to bring people together through connection, learning, play, and practical support.
From family-friendly gatherings to learning experiences for adults, our events create space to explore the Yes, AND Framework in real life.
Communities grow stronger when adults have better tools.
When adults understand the brain and have practical tools to use in daily life, they are more equipped to:
- Respond instead of react
- Bbuild stronger relationships
- Support children with greater clarity and connection
- Create safer, more grounded environments for growth
- Model what it looks like to learn, repair, and move forward
This is how change spreads.
Not only through information, but through visible modeling, shared language, and real-life practice.
One regulated adults can change everything
Children need adults who can model regulation, resilience, and forward motion in real life.
Too often, adults are expected to lead, teach, parent, and respond well in stressful moments without ever being given the language or tools to do so.
- People are overwhelmed.
- Families are stretched thin.
- Schools are carrying more than ever.
- Communities are looking for connection, clarity, and practical support.
Yes, AND Foundation exists to help close that gap.
We bring brain-based tools and shared language for educators, parents, and students into everyday life so adults can better understand themselves, respond with intention, and model what growth can look like in real time.
Work With The Yes, AND Foundation ➡What The Yes, AND Foundation Does
The Yes, AND Foundation helps students, educators, and parents build the regulation, resilience, and shared language needed to move forward with more clarity and connection.
We support:
- Students who need help understanding what they feel and what they need
- Educators who are managing behavior, burnout, and learning needs
- Parents and caregivers who want practical tools to model for their children
- Schools that want a shared language for regulation and resilience
- Communities that believe children need connected, equipped adults
We help the people surrounding children respond with intention, repair when needed, and create safer spaces for learning, connection, and growth.
How We Support Educators, Students, and Parents
The Yes, AND Foundation supports the people at the center of a child’s learning and growth: educators, students, and parents.
Shared Language for Regulation and Resilience
Adult-First, Child-Centered Learning
Brain-Based Tools for Everyday
Support for Schools, Families, and Communities
Forward Motion That Builds Safer Spaces
Founded by Dr. Courtney Bishop
Dr. Courtney Bishop is an educator, researcher, speaker, and community-centered leader with a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and a specialization in adult learning theory and growth mindset research.
She brings over a decade of experience as an educator, instructional leader, school leader, and coach.
But this work did not begin in a classroom.
It began in real life.
Court built this work because she understands what it means to need regulated adults, shared language, and practical tools before a hard moment becomes a breaking point.
As a neurodivergent parent, former public school principal, researcher, and founder, Court created The Yes, AND Foundation to make regulation and resilience more accessible to the students, educators, parents, and communities who need it most.
What began as a personal framework has become a community mission:
Every child deserves a regulated adult.
- Doctorate in Educational Leadership
- Adult learning and growth mindset specialization
- 10,000+ hours studying, applying, and teaching this work
- Former school leader, educator, and coach
- Research-backed, real-life application
Courtney is a passionate and committed writer. She loves to unpack her thinking through writing.
Learn More about Courtney
THIS work lives in the real-life middle
The moments between knowing something needs to change and having the tools to respond differently.
Start where you are.
The Yes, AND Foundation expands access to practical, brain-based tools through speaking, training, partnerships, and accessible learning experiences.
Here’s how we support communities:
In Real Life
WE LEAD
Keynote Speaking Engagements
Dr. Courtney Bishop speaks to schools and organizations that are ready to move beyond surface-level strategies and into deeper, sustainable change.
These are high-impact learning experiences focused on regulation, resilience, behavior, and forward motion.
WE PARTNER
School and Community Partnerships
We partner with schools and organizations that want to create environments where students feel safe, connected, and ready to learn.
Broader support designed to strengthen adult capacity, shared language, connection, and sustainable systems change.
We Create
Workshops and Professional Development
Practical, real-time application for schools, organizations, leadership teams, and communities.
Work with the Foundation
WE TEACH
Accessible Learning Resources for Educators, Parents, and Caregivers
Everything we teach is grounded in brain science and built for real moments.
Online learning, tools, and practical resources that expand access beyond the room.
RESEARCH BACKED
The Yes, AND Forward Framework
The Forward Framework is the foundation of this work.
It gives adults a simple, repeatable way to pause, understand what is happening beneath the surface, and move forward with greater intention.
Partner with Yes, AND FoundationThis framework is built around three connected practices:
- Regulation Learn how to pause, notice what is happening in your body and brain, and come back to center before reacting.
- Resilience Strengthen the capacity to stay present in hard moments, recover with compassion, and keep showing up.
- Reframing Shift patterns of thought and behavior so you can respond differently, reconnect, and move forward with intention.
When adults learn how to regulate, build resilience, and reframe difficult moments, they are better able to model those skills for the children, families, teams, and communities around them.
This is where ripple effects begin.
Regulation
Regulation is a skill that can be practiced. This work helps adults notice what is happening in the brain and body before reacting, so they can pause, reset, and respond with greater intention.
Resilience
Resilience can be taught, modeled, and strengthened over time. Through shared language and practical tools, adults learn how to stay present in hard moments without getting stuck inside them.
Reframing
Reframing helps make the invisible work visible. It gives adults a way to look beneath the surface, consider a new perspective, and ask what may be needed instead of only reacting to what is happening.
Awareness
Forward motion starts with awareness. When we can name what is happening, we create space to choose what comes next.
Shared Language
The framework gives families, schools, and communities language they can return to again and again. Shared language helps people pause long enough to connect, repair, and move forward.
Real-Life Practice
This framework was built in real life. Not theory. Real moments. Real nervous systems. Real growth. The work continues to evolve alongside the people and communities practicing it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Yes, AND Foundation?
What kind of support does the Foundation provide?
Is this work only for schools?
What does “adult-first” mean?
What does “brain-based” mean?
What are regulation, resilience, and reframing?
How can my organization work with Yes, AND Foundation?
Can I support the Foundation even if I’m not part of an organization?
How do I get started?
This work belongs in real life.
This work belongs:
- In the school struggling with staff burnout, escalating behaviors, and disconnection across classrooms.
- With the parent who feels overwhelmed and reactive during difficult moments at home.
- In organizations searching for practical ways to strengthen relationships, regulation, and emotional safety.
The answer is not another one-time strategy.
It is helping adults understand how the brain influences behavior, stress, learning, and connection so they can respond differently in real time.
That is where sustainable change begins.
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