The Yes, AND Foundation
Every Child Deserves a Regulated Adult
We equip schools, districts, and community organizations with practical, brain-based tools for regulation, resilience, and forward motion — through keynotes, professional development, and embedded partnerships.
Adult-first. Child-centered. Always.
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.
Choose Your Next Step
Three clear ways to begin, whichever role you play.
Bring This Work to Your Team
Keynotes, professional development, and ongoing partnerships for schools, districts, and organizations.
Work with usStart With the Course
Raising Regulated AND Resilient Humans — self-paced, brain-based tools you can use today.
$99 for one year of access.
Fund the Mission
Your gift brings regulation and resilience tools to more students, educators, and parents.
DonateCommunities Grow Stronger When Adults Have Better Tools
Staff are burned out and behaviors are escalating. Parents are overwhelmed in the moments they most want to respond well. Schools and communities need 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 recognize what is happening and respond differently in real time.
One regulated adult can change everything.
Research driven and lived in real life
The Yes, AND Forward Framework
A simple, repeatable way to pause, understand what is happening beneath the surface, and move forward with intention.
Regulation
Pause, notice what is happening in your body and brain, and come back to center before reacting.
Resilience
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.
When adults learn to regulate, build resilience, and reframe hard moments, they model those skills for the children, families, and communities around them. This is where ripple effects begin.
Rooted in Research. Built Through Practice.
10,000+
RESEARCH HOURS + LIVED EXPERIENCE FOR DAYS
10+
YEARS IN EDUCATION + LEADERSHIP
100%
OF RESPONDENTS WOULD RECOMMEND THIS WORK
Ed.D.
ADULTS LEARNING + GROWTH MINDSET
“I plan to integrate small things from this work into my classroom with my students — adding a pause button and more frequent moments of reconnection when we're having hard moments together.”
Program participant
“This work equips you with real-life, practical tools to help reframe your thinking, so that we can achieve forward motion.”
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“I’ve been able to slow down, pause, and process before proceeding — very hard to do when the world around us moves 100 miles an hour.”
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“After learning about the pause and truly looking at the choices I have, it became apparent how much I was being a 'pleaser' to everyone and everything around me. I find myself pausing and evaluating my thoughts and feelings more regularly, which has changed my reaction to the circumstance.”
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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.
This Work Became Personal Before It Became Public
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 an educator and researcher, she had spent years helping adults understand how children learn and grow. Then her own family needed the work.
Court had to learn how to practice regulation and resilience for her son, AND for herself, before she could teach it to anyone else.
That experience connected her life as an educator, neurodivergent parent, researcher, school leader, and founder.
What began as a personal framework became 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
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