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Consulting - Guides & Curriculum - Creative

If you're done accepting that the broken way is the only way, you're in the right place.

You see the problems. Now you have systems that solve them.

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Systems for intentional families, educators, and inner growth

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That Was Easy!

The potty-training approach that works with children’s instincts instead of fighting them—used for millennia, and helping most children transition out of diapers by around 18 months through observation, timing, and calm guidance rather than pressure or rewards.

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Good Soil for
Raising Great People

Your children may spend more waking hours in school than with you, making the school environment one of the most influential systems in their lives. This book helps you evaluate whether that system reinforces the values you’re working to instill.

In Development

Ongoing work extending systems-based practicality into new domains.

All Things
Home

A whole-family curriculum for homeschoolers, co-ops, and schools, written in the Montessori Great Story tradition. It teaches the practical work of home life—chores, repairs, hospitality, and care—while addressing not just how to do the work, but the responsibility, gratitude, and formation behind it.

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The Books That
We Read

Gabby had life all mapped out, but instead, everything falls apart at once, leaving her unexpectedly alone in a city she barely knows.

As she navigates love, faith, and disappointment, she wrestles with the cost of being perceptive and choosing integrity when it would be easier not to.

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Montessori Elementary System
for Schools in Crisis

A practical response to the staffing crisis facing Montessori schools, forcing them to choose between closing programs or abandoning Montessori in practice, this system equips competent adults to run a strong elementary environment immediately, without waiting years for traditional training.

The Dumbest Way We Possibly Could

The Dumbest Way... traces a recurring pattern in modern life: systems that reward short-term comfort over long-term truth.

Addressing education, media, housing, and social life, it shows how we choose convoluted, ineffective solutions—and proposes concrete alternatives to some of society’s most entrenched failures.

Happy Apocalypse!

When the systems that shaped their sense of success disappear, a family is left with the struggle they never intended to face.

But when all the certainty and ease is stripped away, they discover a joy that had been hidden beneath modern convenience all along.

How to Teach a Child to Read

A hands-on, developmentally appropriate approach to teaching reading, refined through years of real-world use with children at a wide range of ages. It offers clear, engaging strategies that consistently bring a child to joyful, independent reading without pressure, comparison, or confusion.

Consulting

Rapid Operational Improvement

Angela Belle provides systems-focused consulting for organizations seeking clearer thinking, more honest diagnosis, and practical ways forward when existing structures no longer make sense.