Build Understanding.
Empower Inclusion.
Inspire Change.
Live Joyfully gives students social-emotional life skills and educators professional development, built on one powerful idea: when children understand disabilities, inclusion follows — in every classroom, home and community, and for a lifetime of success.
✦ New York State CTLE Approved Sponsor — ID #24018
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The Assembly Sparks It. The Course Sustains It.​
The Book Carries It Home.
Bring a Joyfully Josie student assembly to your school— then give your educators the tools to keep the conversation going all year long with our CTLE-approved online professional development course.
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One powerful experience. Lasting impact.
One Program. Three ways inclusion
takes root.
Students, teachers and families each get their own part — so understanding doesn't end when the assembly does.
Student Assemblies
In-person Understanding in Action
The student assembly based on the book Joyfully Josie introduces students to disabilities, differences, and the impact of kindness. Every hand goes up! Students feel safe asking questions and sharing their own experiences. A life-long shift happens in real time.
Online PD Course
Inclusion woven into the classroom, all year long.​
The lessons from the assembly continue in self-paced online courses built on Joyfully Josie. Educators carry those lessons into the classroom all year long, earning approved professional development hours as they go.
*3 approved PD/CTLE hours per course
The Book
Understanding continues at home.
Joyfully Josie is how students carry the conversation home and into their communities. It's a heartwarming story families read together so the lessons of inclusion continue at the kitchen table.
What the ‘Be Kind’ movement did for Anti-Bullying,
‘Live Joyfully’ is here to do for Disability Inclusion.
Did You Know ?
US Public Schools have 7.3 million students with disabilities.
 240 million children worldwide have disabilities.
Students with Learning Disabilities have a 31% higher risk of being bullied.
Schools with SEL programs report 27% improved learning environments.
What if kindness, empathy, and inclusion were not a lesson, but the standard?
Do your students show kindness to student's who are different?
Do your students understand
all types of disabilities?
Have your students learned what it means to be inclusive?
Implementing Disability Inclusion throughout your school makes a lasting difference for children, teachers, and parents.
Live Joyfully School Assembly was both engaging and inspiring. My students continue to connect their own experiences to Josie's journey, reminding us all of our responsibility to teach inclusivity. Live Joyfully provides the tools to foster understanding and acceptance of all differences in an age-appropriate way.
Renee' Bauman Schettino
4th Grade Teacher | Manorhaven Elementary School |Port Washington, New York