Explore Cultivate.

  • Designed for Early Career Educators
    Perfect for teacher candidates, student teachers, and pre-service educators.

    Self-Paced Experience

    Learn at your own pace with engaging mini-lessons, printable resources, and guided reflection questions all on your schedule.

    ✔ Earn 10 clock hours
    ✔ Receive a certificate of completion

    One-time payment: $197
    Payment plans available

    Designed for Your Growth
    ✔ Invest in meaningful self-development
    ✔ Grow in self-awareness and clarity of purpose
    ✔ Set and follow through on intentional goals
    ✔ Build confidence in collaboration, content, and relationships with students and families

  • Designed for Early Career Educators
    Perfect for teacher candidates, student teachers, and pre-service educators.

    8-Week Guided Cohort Experience

    Take your learning deeper with structured support and community.

    ✔ 4 live virtual community meetings
    ✔ Up to weekly 1:1 coaching with Christina
    ✔ Includes full access to the self-paced course
    ✔ Earn up to 18 clock hours + certificate

    $797
    Payment plans available

    Support That Makes a Difference
    ✔ Invest in meaningful self-development
    ✔ Grow in self-awareness and clarity of purpose
    ✔ Set and follow through on intentional goals
    ✔ Build confidence in collaboration, content, and relationships with students and families

  • Designed for Your Team
    Built for schools, districts, universities, and education organizations committed to supporting early career educators.

    Whether you're strengthening induction, mentoring, or professional learning, we’ll help you find the right fit for your team.

    Option 1: Interest Form
    Share your context and goals, and we’ll guide you.

    ✔ Complete a brief questionnaire
    ✔ Receive personalized recommendations tailored to your team
    ✔ Identify the best-fit support for your early career educators

    Option 2: Connection Call
    Looking for a more collaborative approach?

    ✔ Schedule a brief virtual conversation
    ✔ Explore customized support for induction, mentoring, or professional development
    ✔ Get expert guidance to align with your team’s priorities

    Why This Matters

    ✔ Prioritize meaningful support for new teachers
    ✔ Proactively invest in teacher retention
    ✔ Honor veteran teachers’ time and expertise
    ✔ Inspire and sustain changemakers across your organization

As a Cultivate course companion or as a stand-alone resource, Cultivate: Strategies for Building Confidence as an Early Career Teacher is a practical workbook designed to help you build a steadier foundation through guided reflection and ready-to-use tools. As you work through the five-part Cultivate framework, you’ll clarify the teacher you’re becoming, strengthen sustainable habits for classroom life, and take intentional next steps—one skill, one routine, and one small win at a time.

Inside You’ll Find:

  • 20+ reproducible tools and worksheets for early career teacher growth

  • Guided reflection questions and action-planning prompts

  • Practical strategies for student relationships, family communication, and clear expectations

  • Tools for building workplace support, collaboration, and healthy boundaries

  • Space to create your Teacher Vision Blueprint and set goals you can sustain

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Meet the Instructor:

Christina Meline, M.Ed

Hello teachers and leaders! I’m so glad you’re here and excited to welcome you to Cultivate: Building Confidence as an Early Career Teacher.

This course grew out of my own early years in the classroom and the hundreds of messages I’ve heard from teachers in their first five years. If you feel called to education, that’s a beautiful gift. Inspiring young people to learn and grow is one of the most impactful ways to change the world! And yet, teaching is also tough at times. Now more than ever, new teachers need more support, not less.

I’ve spent over a decade teaching in private, public, and charter schools, both in-person and online. I’ve coached new teachers, led teaching teams, and partnered with district stakeholders across the country, listening to the complex, heavy concerns so many educators and leaders are carrying. When I reflect and ask, “What can I do about it?” this course is my answer.

The vision behind Cultivate is: Dig beneath the surface so your roots grow deeper and your practice grows stronger, both personally and professionally. Because life as a new teacher is already so full, I designed this to be bite-sized and manageable, filled with practical strategies you can use right away. My hope is that it supports not only your professional growth, but your personal well-being, too. I’m honored you’re considering joining me for this journey.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Cultivate is designed for early-career teachers, teacher candidates, student teachers, and pre-service teachers, as well as schools, districts, universities, and education organizations looking to better support new teachers.

  • The self-paced option is best for flexibility and independent learning, progressing at your own pace. The cohort model is best for participants or teams who are looking for additional accountability, community, and coaching.

  • Yes! Payment plan options are available for both the self-paced course and the cohort experience. During the checkout process, you can choose one payment or four payments.

    For schools, universities, and education organizations, scheduling and pricing are designed to be flexible and can be discussed in light of your department’s goals, constraints, and desired level of partnership.

  • Yes! The mini-lesson videos are just 5-10 minutes long and include guided pauses for reflection and application of the course resources.

    Additionally, we know busy teachers need strategies they can use right away. The activities are designed for immediate implementation, offering supports to address real challenges, both personally and professionally.

  • Yes. Upon final course requirement submissions, participants receive a Certificate of Completion documenting the appropriate hours of professional learning (based on the chosen course format).

    Acceptance for clock hours, CEUs, or licensure renewal is determined by each state, district, or licensing body.

  • Cohort groups run four times per year:

    • June-August

    • September-November

    • January-February

    • March-May

    The Summer 2026 cohort dates are: June 22-August 14

  • Yes! Organizations can reserve an entire cohort for their teacher candidates or teachers and customize the experience based on group size, scheduling preferences, and additional resource add-ons.

    Email christina.meline@teammeline.com to explore cohort options.

  • Access to course material (videos and digital resources) does not expire.

    If in the event, materials are adjusting to a new platform, customers will receive prior written notification to ensure enough time to store the current materials for future use.

  • “On behalf of everyone at our school, I just wanted to thank you for your devotional book for teachers. We have been using it this year during our faculty prayer time, and there have been many instances where we needed to be encouraged about something and that was the day’s topic. To our teachers, who are greatly underpaid, teaching here feels like an uphill battle most days. So I wanted you to know that your book is making a huge difference in helping to keep our teaching atmosphere positive and encouraging.”

    —School Administrator (Vermont)

  • “I have made it a goal to read it each morning and it reaffirms that God has put me in the right place, even on not so good days.  I always feel motivated to get to work and be the best version of me for the children.  If I’m running short on time, I always read the blessing.  It gets me in the right mindset.”

    — Teacher (Minnesota)

  • “I felt empowered after every page.”

    — Founder of STEPS Academic Advising & Education

  • "This program is designed with the busy teacher in mind."

    — Veteran Teacher | Rochester, Minnesota

  • "I highly recommend this course for new teachers as an independent study and support, for cohorts of new teachers with a peer mentor or leadership coach, and for veteran or teacher leaders who want to learn more about supporting our newest colleagues and helping them be successful in this profession."

    — Student Teaching Coach

  • "It is a great beginning point for schools that are looking to increase their support for early-career teachers and work towards higher rates of teacher retention."

    — Teaching Team Leader

  • "This well-laid out course provides heart-felt encouragement and a helpful path for educators living the ups and downs of their first years in the classroom. What you gain from this course will serve you well for many fulfilling years to come!"

    — Course Participant

  • "After participating in this course, the phrase I would use to describe it is: Life-changing."

    - Early Career Teacher

  • “The lessons are broken up into small sections so it is easy to manage and you feel like you’re making progress.”

    - Instructional Coach | Louisville, KY

  • “The content fits the ‘must knows’ of a newer teacher while encouraging them to take time for reflection”

    - Mentor Teacher | St. Paul, MN