professional learning services
Clarity and direction
Effective support
Lasting impact
From “one more thing” to meaningful support
We build instructional leaders’ capacity to plan and implement two content- and curriculum-based professional learning practices:
Collaborative planning (i.e., PLCs)
Lead teachers in learning, reflecting, and improving their practice by internalizing their materials, preparing lessons, and analyzing student work.
Services
Establishing consistent routines for unit internalization, lesson preparation, and student work analysis
Modeling effective facilitation
Preparing facilitators to plan and lead content-specific learning experiences
Building leaders’ capacity to observe and monitor the impact of collaborative planning
Coaching leaders and teachers
Provide individualized support to teachers and leaders that strengthens knowledge, skills, and actions to improve instruction.
Services
Establishing consistent routines for classroom observations and feedback
Norming with research-based classroom observation rubrics
Sharing best practices for facilitating productive coaching conversations
Modeling and practicing direct and targeted feedback
Building leaders’ capacity to identify instructional trends across classrooms
A lasting system for teacher growth and student success
Establish the conditions that keep instructional improvement on track—even through staffing changes.
Increased leadership capacity
Build instructional leadership capacity across your system—from district directors to principals to instructional coaches.
1:1 leadership coaching
District-wide collaboration
A proven approach to professional learning
Focus limited time and resources on research-backed strategies for improvement
Our approach to professional learning (PL) is based on widespread and rigorous evidence that:
PL is more effective in schools that are more collaborative workplaces.
Curriculum-based coaching can improve both instructional quality and student outcomes.
PL initiatives that are not supported by school leadership are more likely to fail.
Instruction Partners are there to support you and to guide you in this work. And when you find your voice, you're going to be able to transform as a leader and impact everyone that you interact with. I'm seeing that in my team, in my students, and in my network. You can't lose with this partnership.
DR. Lawanda Clark
Director of Instruction and Curriculum
Memphis, TN
Partner case studies
Collaborative planning
Aldine ISD ACE
This case study highlights how we partnered with leaders at two turnaround elementary schools to strengthen lesson internalization. After four years of partnership, both schools improved from F to A ratings on their state report cards.
Coaching
Oakland Unity Middle School
Learn how we developed a new ELA coach—leading to a 12.72-point increase in students testing above grade-level proficiency in ELA on the state assessment in just one year.
Data
Gladstone Elementary
This case study highlights a multi-year school partnership in which we built a strong instructional support system with aligned coaching, collaborative planning, and data collection practices—leading to improved daily instruction and significant gains in student proficiency across all content areas.