Mission: Advocating for the child’s right to play as a path to excellence through story telling. We facilitate rigorous, high-interest experiences that respect the dignity and developmental needs of every learner.
Vision: To inspire a generation of confident readers, writers, and creative thinkers who lead with imagination and executive strength.
Tales with Tessa, LLC
Meet Ms. Tessa
Play Advocate, Reader, Storyteller
Tessa Baden is a nature and play advocate who shares her personal transformation story to inspire reflection, connection, and evolution in others.
Tales with Tessa is focused on making books and read-aloud times interactive and fun. Through creative engagement, Tessa works to bring books to life for children, ensuring stories are not just heard, but experienced.
Tessa started her career at Camp C.A.M.P. (a camp for people of all abilities) and various (pre)schools. For almost 20 years, she has journeyed through public and private education spaces exploring opportunities to ensure adults trust and honor children’s learning to occur in its most authentic form, PLAY. She encourages others to name the challenges and fears they face in working with children and find peaceful ways to transform their thinking and action.
Her personal mission is to advocate peace, joy and dignity for all children and those who guide them in all spaces, always.
Tessa is the mother to two strong, clever, and compelling souls. Her favorite place to be is outside camping, walking, hiking, playing with loose parts in her backyard and sharing books with others!
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Contact Tessa
Need a reader, storyteller, professional development, or help with nurturing a love for books?
