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Mission

To help children, families, schools, and organizations build more joyful, accessible, and human-centered learning systems through cooking, baking, literacy, SEL, executive functioning, and real-life skill development.

Vision

A world where learning feels safe, practical, creative, and connected to real life — especially for neurodivergent learners, disabled children, and families navigating systems that were not always designed with them in mind.

About Calvin Eaton

Hi. I’m Calvin.

I am a disabled, neurodivergent Black teacher, writer, researcher, and entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in education.

My work explores how children learn and how we can create more accessible, joyful, and human ways of teaching. I bring together classroom practice, ongoing research, lived experience, culinary creativity, and systems thinking.

Today, much of my work centers on Food as Curriculum™ and Recipes as Curriculum™ using cooking and baking to build literacy, math, science, executive functioning, self-regulation, and practical life skills.

As a learning consultant, I work with children, families, schools, and organizations through tutoring, consulting, professional learning, writing, and curriculum development.

At the heart of my work is a simple question: How can we make learning work better for the whole person?

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"Calvin's presentation and facilitated conversation, which centered around understanding implicit bias in education, was a pivotal experience for our teachers and staff. Calvin's experience and expertise in this domain were obvious throughout the planning process, as well as in session; we were confident in his work the entire time. The preparation materials that he provided our staff were instrumental to framing the workshop, and the workshop itself offered our teachers a supportive opportunity to explore critical conversation around challenging topics, while also challenging comfort zones and prompting accountability to self-inquiry. Calvin's work is invaluable, and is an asset to our community at the individual and collective level!"

— Isabel, Montessori School of Rochester | Rochester, NY