We support educators, caregivers, and students with research-based
practices that enhance instruction and learning in all content areas.

Expand your influence
on teaching & learning

Schools are amazing, vibrant places of growth and hope. They can be difficult and complex places to navigate, too, for students, parents or caregivers, and educators alike.

If so, we can help.

If you're a parent or caregiver, having trouble feeling heard and treated as a unique individual within the larger school system, we can help.

If you're an educator, challenged by a crushing workload, puzzled by questions on how to meet the needs of your students, we can help you, too.

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We envision schools, energized by classrooms in which learning experiences are wholly collaborative and alive with rich discussions driven by the students themselves. Students in such schools have consistent opportunities to share and broaden their unique skills and perspectives. And teachers in such schools thrive, serving as facilitators of rigorous and differentiated learning experiences.

Services for Parents or Caregivers

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ADVOCATE SERVICES

We can serve as a non-litigating advocate with IEPs, gifted IEPs, interventions (MTSS-RtI), and other complex issues to support students with specialized needs.

INTERPRETING TESTS

Today, schools provide a wealth of data to parents or caregivers in the form of test results. These can be difficult to interpret and know how to address. We can help.

FINDING RESOURCES

The market is full of educational resources and programs, some of which may be helpful. Some may not be. We can help you find proven resources and programs.

UNDERSTANDING "WHY"

Schools, today, use approaches that may be unfamiliar to many parents or caregivers (especially in math and reading). We can explain and help navigate them.

Services for School-Based Instructional Leaders

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Are you a school leader? A principal, assistant principal, or dean? Are you a teacher-coach, assistant superintendent, curriculum director, superintendent? Or a board member? We all know you wear many hats.

The last hat you get to wear—but the one you want to wear most often—is that of instructional leader. There's simply never enough time to do what brought you into the profession in the first place.

We can help with leadership coaching, curriculum support, and more. See below.

CURRICULUM EVALUATION

Determining overall fit
Vertical & horizontal alignment
Selection & implementation

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TEACHER COACHING

Building rapport
Establishing goals & cycles
Providing feedback

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Designing series of offerings
Modeling PD sessions
Designing & facilitating PLCs

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ASSESSMENT ANALYSIS

Understanding types of data
Achievement & growth results
Formative assessment plans

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STANDARDS ALIGNMENT

Interpreting & unpacking
Connecting to curriculum
Supporting in instruction

VISION & PLANNING

Crafting a vision for teaching
Multi-year strategic planning
Undertaking needs analysis

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GUIDING DOCUMENTS

Scope-and-sequence guides
Fluency & intervention guides
Research libraries

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DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONS

Qualitative & quantitative data
Looking at trends
Using & creating dashboards

We can put together a plan to meet your needs and that fits within your schedule, including helping to submit Title I or II-A grants that can fund our working together. We focus on building systems and routines that will guide your instructional leadership. Our experience with curriculum programs is extensive and includes the ones shown below (among others).