Administrators
How Yeet the Yo and EmberWood align to NGSS, Common Core, SEL, and Digital Literacy standards — and what implementation looks like school-wide.
JOY in Motion · For Educators & Families
A learning & leadership framework.
Helping people grow through effort, iteration, and purposeful contribution — for classrooms, clubs, small groups, and whole-child initiatives.
Who It's For
Four doorways. One mission.
Teachers
Lesson scaffolds, the iteration loop in your classroom, and station-based STEAM activities you can run tomorrow.
Students
Track your tricks, log iterations, climb the ladder, and notice your own growth in real time.
Families
Practice rituals, conversation prompts, and how to support effort-and-iteration mindset at home.
EmberWood · Story-Based SEL
A world where effort belongs.
EmberWood is a longer-form, story-based experience designed to help learners metabolize complexity through metaphor. Rather than preaching social-emotional skills, EmberWood invites students into a narrative world where effort, practice, and belonging are explored gently and honestly. This is where Joy in Motion becomes personal.
What it builds
Identity · belonging · emotional literacy · resilience
What it feels like
"Safe, imaginative, grounding — like being held inside a story while learning something true."
Aligned & Researched
The frameworks behind the play.
Joyful doesn't mean unscientific. Every activity ladders up to recognized standards and developmental research.
CASEL
Self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making — embodied through the yo-yo.
Understanding by Design (UbD)
Backward-designed: enduring understandings first, transfer goals second, then the practice that gets us there.
Self-Determination Theory
Autonomy, competence, and relatedness — the conditions joy needs to grow.
Theory of Change
Embodied play → mastery moments → identity formation → contribution. The yo-yo is the vehicle, not the destination.
Bring it to your community.
Schools, libraries, museums, conferences, after-school programs — let's design a residency, assembly, or workshop that fits your students.