Education Programs

Education Built to Teach.

Scaffolded workbooks that build one skill at a time, designed the way learning science says they should be.

Diabetes education has a design problem.

Most of it is written to inform, not to teach — a wall of facts, delivered once, with no practice and no way to apply it to your own body. Then it’s over, and the research shows the benefit fades within one to three months.

Our workbooks are built differently.

  1. Scaffolded.

    Concepts build in sequence, so you’re never asked to use something you haven’t learned yet.

  2. Active.

    You work through your own numbers, not a textbook example.

  3. Self-paced.

    In print and online, because the right time to learn this is whenever you’re actually ready.

The Diabetes & Exercise Workbook.

How movement actually affects your blood sugar, and how to plan for it without fear. Free for people with T1D and their caregivers, in print and online, when it launches.

Coming this Fall
The workbook is in final production now. It will be free for people with T1D and their caregivers, in print and online.

Available today

We train the people who teach.

The problem in diabetes education isn’t a shortage of information — it’s that most of it was never built to teach. Beta Cell Foundation works with health networks, clinics, camps, and nonprofits to bring pedagogically sound instructional design to their own diabetes education: scaffolded sequencing, active practice, and materials built to develop real capability rather than deliver facts.

If your organization teaches people about diabetes and you want it to land better, get in touch.