The Importance of Inner Listening in Education
Inner Listening helps children build empathy, resilience, ethical clarity, and purpose. This reflection shows why education must nurture conscience and self-awareness, not only academics.
We create resources to help every child love learning.
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Why HBL
We started Heart Bright Learning because we believe that learning should be a joy, not a chore. When children fall in love with learning, everything else follows.
What We Make
Evidence-based, heart-centered learning materials that help children grow — as readers and as people. Our resources support the whole child — the curious mind and the growing heart.
Who We Are
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Rooted in Experience
Our design team brings over a century of combined educational experience in process-based literacy and science education, fostering a love of learning in children that lasts a lifetime.
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Created to Inspire Curiosity
Compassionate, research-informed resources help children grow into excited, expressive, and expansive learners.
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Driven by Impact, Not Investors
Mission-led and market-powered — sales sustain impact, independence, and ongoing donations to underserved communities and individuals, without relying on outside funding.
Heart Bright Learning is more than a store—it's a Service Publisher
Our goal is to broaden access to exceptional educational resources. Our profit-sharing model ensures every creator, educator, and contributor is fairly compensated for the work they bring to you, and to individuals and communities who need it most.
Featured Products
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Tortoise Teaches Rabbit to Read - Bundle
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Poetry For Phonics & Fluency - Set 1
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Let Your Feelings Flow
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Let Your Feelings Flow
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SEL Collection
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Social Emotional Learning Fables (Collection 1)
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I Am Not Brave - Bundle
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Don't Rush The River - Bundle
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Rabbit Learns Skunk is Sincere - Bundle
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Featured Blogs
How gliders became models of scaffolding learning
Using the balance-bike metaphor, this post argues strong curriculum scaffolds through the ZPD—building prior knowledge, structure, and safety—while AI helps map gaps, dependencies, and next steps.
Why the Stop&Talk Process Deserves a Place in Every SEL Story Lesson
This post shows how discussion starters can deepen story reflection beyond simple answers—helping students explore feelings, motives, and choices while building SEL through inclusive, thoughtful dialogue.
Designed for Children, Optimized for Parents and Educators
For Parents
Support Your Child's Learning at Home
Discover easy-to-use tools and instructional guides that help you help your children learn to read while building emotional intelligence.
For Educators
Learning That Moves With Your Students
Our early literacy and SEL programs give teachers the tools to weave observation, curiosity, and expression into everyday learning — so children grow as readers and as people.
Meet Our Team
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Jon Madian
Prolific writer who has authored numerous children’s books and curriculum resources featured by Scholastic, Apple and others. Founded and led the Los Angeles’ Artist-in-Residence Reading Project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education and various foundations.
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Karen Jostad-Madian
Karen Jostad-Madian led instructional design teams in developing award-winning K–12 educational software. She has served as an adjunct professor at multiple colleges and has trained resource managers in public land use for environmental education.
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Julie Anne Ikenberry
A tricultural educator, writer, and illustrator raised in Kenya and England. Trained in theater and Montessori. Founded and led multiple schools in the United States. Dedicated her career to Montessori education.
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Jyoti Kumta
Has varied experience in teaching and school counseling and realized the acute need for Values Education and Social Emotional Learning in schools. She is devoted to integrating these principles into school curricula.
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Paritosh Chhibber
Founded Levelworks and brings a background in User and Service Experience Design along with Psychology. Deeply committed to education and job creation. Collaborates with organizations that value and celebrate lifelong learning.
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Antonia Madian
A writer, editor, and communications specialist. Believes in the power of student-led learning and the importance of fostering emotional intelligence in children from an early age.
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Stephania Menezes
Founder of Joy-Filled Kids and an experiential facilitator advocating for children's right to play. Guides intentional parenting and creates play spaces to nurture resilient, self-aware, and nature-connected children and teens.
What Experts Are Saying
Tortoise Teaches Rabbit to Read lifts early literacy from memorization into a sky high journey of discovery. You will love how this approach makes unlocking the reading code delightful for you and your students.
Poetry for Fluency playfully builds natural scaffolds to show children how the code works. It gives kids the thrills of learning to read by exploring good writing.
The work that Heart Bright Learning is doing to support a balanced approach to reading has helped me understand how the fundamental elements of reading work together, with and beyond phonics.
Tortoise Teaches Rabbit to Read uses a structured story to help early readers discover the sounds in words. It is a program well worth exploring for early readers.
I've been immersed in the literacy world for over 30 years, and this is the first time I have seen something focused on the inner world of the child as they are learning to read.
Heart Bright Learning brings a rare and powerful integration of social-emotional development and instructional design, creating learning experiences that honor the whole child.
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