We offer a research-backed Professional Learning model that gets Results.

We’re proud to be one of the only professional learning providers with rigorous scientific proof that our work significantly improves students’ math and ELA proficiency.

We get results because we are disrupting yesterday’s one-and-done professional development workshops with relevant, job-embedded systems of professional learning. Research shows that effective professional learning uses curriculum as both a lever and a guide, helping link teachers’ actions and ideas to new standards in a concrete, focused way.

Done right, it can close the gap between the experiences we provide for teachers and those we want them to provide for students. Working with leaders at all levels of the school system, we design ongoing professional learning cycles built around priority standards and connected to a coherent strategy that grow educators’ expertise in using high-quality instructional materials.

Teachers collaborate weekly to address grade-level standards and diverse needs in their lessons, so every day in the classroom helps every student get ahead. At the same time, we work with leaders to establish supportive school and system-level conditions that enable strong instruction to take hold.

We Design for You.

Partners come to us in different stages of their instructional improvement journey, so we bring options designed to meet you where you are. While we have seen the best results emerge from vertically aligned professional learning systems that address development from the classroom up to the central office in ongoing ways, we also offer:

• Instructional leadership development: Want to strengthen capacity for more robust professional learning? We design and facilitate learning arcs focused on the technical and adaptive aspects of vision implementation, coordinated planning, coaching, and data-driven decision-making.
• School-based continuous improvement cycles: Want to help teachers adjust to a new curriculum while strengthening content knowledge and practices? We design curriculum-based professional learning arcs that structure a multi-week Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle around unpacking, teaching to, and assessing mastery of priority standards and aligned practices.
• Systemwide workshops: Are you looking to level up your standards-based content knowledge? We can design best-in-class, content—and grade-specific workshops for educators at all stages of their careers. These are often the foundation for deeper, contextualized arcs for school-based learning later on.
• Train-the-trainer learning experiences: Do you want to strengthen the design, coaching, and facilitation practices of centralized instructional leaders or school-based teacher leaders? We can train your team to deliver custom-designed professional learning connected to your curriculum and instructional goals.

We Build for Sustainability.

Unlike typical professional development, our approach takes context, culture, and resources necessary for lasting change into account. As we partner, we use an evidence-based development continuum to assess six conditions that are key to strong professional learning systems and set goals.