Signature Programs

This service supports new coaches in building the essential skills needed to launch and sustain a successful coaching practice. Coaches will learn how to guide full coaching cycles based on Jim Knight’s Impact Cycle or the Before-During-After framework, helping to lead goal-setting, support implementation, and reflect alongside teachers. Coaches will also explore strategies for building trust and credibility, creating psychological safety with staff, and effectively communicating the purpose and value of coaching. Practical guidance on designing flexible coaching menus and generating coaching partnerships ensures that coaches have the tools to establish a strong presence and make a meaningful impact.

This service includes:

• Coaching Cycle: Understanding the full coaching cycle based on the Before-During-After framework and Jim Knight’s Impact Cycle.
• Building Trust and Relationships: Techniques for relationship building, establishing credibility, and fostering psychological safety with teachers and leaders.
• Marketing Your Coaching Services: Communicating the purpose of coaching to different stakeholders and generating coaching partnerships, even when teachers are unfamiliar with coaching.
• Coaching Menu Creation: Designing flexible service menus that offer a variety of coaching options, such as modeling, co-teaching, planning support, and data conversations.

Strong coaching conversations are at the heart of meaningful instructional growth. This service helps new coaches build essential practices such as effective questioning, active listening, and giving feedback that moves teaching forward. Coaches will explore how to flex between different coaching stances — consultative, facilitative, and directive — to match each situation and teacher’s needs. They will also learn how to deliver feedback that feels safe, specific, and actionable, drawing on best practices from leaders like Jim Knight, Elena Aguilar, and Diane Sweeney. Through practical examples and guided practice, coaches will leave ready to foster reflective, growth-focused conversations that make an impact.

This service includes:

• Effective Questioning and Listening: Training on using different coaching stances (consultative, facilitative, directive) and matching them thoughtfully to support teacher growth.
• Feedback that Moves Practice: Learning how to provide feedback that is safe, specific, actionable, and encourages reflection using research-based strategies.

 Coaching thrives when strong structures are in place to support it. This service helps new coaches set up the systems and partnerships that make their work visible, sustainable, and impactful. Coaches will learn how to design simple coaching agreements to clarify expectations with teachers, track and reflect on coaching activities to show growth over time and build strong working relationships with administrators through regular communication and alignment meetings. With the right structures, coaching moves from isolated conversations to an integrated, powerful part of a school’s culture.

This service includes:

• Designing Coaching Agreements: Setting clear expectations and commitments to build strong, focused coaching partnerships.
• Tracking and Reflecting on Coaching Impact: Using practical tools to document coaching activities, celebrate progress, and reflect on outcomes.
• Working with Administrators: Establishing alignment and partnership with leadership, including tools for principal-coach meetings that strengthen coaching support.

 Coaching can be incredibly rewarding, but it also comes with real challenges. This service helps new coaches build the skills and mindsets they need to navigate common obstacles with confidence. Coaches will learn practical strategies for working with teachers who are hesitant or skeptical about coaching, managing their time, setting healthy boundaries to stay focused on what matters most, and developing reflection routines and self-care practices to sustain themselves in the work. This service helps new coaches stay resilient, energized, and ready to make a lasting impact by normalizing the challenges of coaching and equipping coaches with actionable tools.

This service includes:

• Coaching Resistant Teachers: Strategies for building trust and creating entry points for coaching with teachers who are hesitant or skeptical.
• Managing Time and Boundaries: Prioritization strategies to help new coaches avoid burnout and stay focused amid competing demands.
• Self-Coaching and Resilience: Tools for reflection, connecting with learning communities, and practicing self-care to sustain energy and effectiveness over time.

In this 3 day face-to-face training, participants learn how to design, assess, and manage a high-quality project-based learning opportunity. Through the process of learning about high-quality PBL, participants construct a project that is aligned to standards and engages all learners.

Participants have access to virtual office hours to receive support and feedback in the development and implementation of a project-based learning experience.

Following the implementation and assessment of a project, participants will engage in professional learning to collaboratively analyze student data to assess the degree to which the project yielded intended outcomes.

A clear vision for instructional coaching sets the foundation for a strong coaching culture. This service supports district and school leaders in collaboratively defining what coaching is — and what it isn’t — in their schools. Through facilitated and customized conversations, leadership teams will align on the purpose, scope, and structures of the coaching role. As part of this process, teams will co-develop a position guide that outlines responsibilities, expectations, and key competencies for coaches. This shared guide supports consistency across buildings, helps build trust, avoids role confusion, and ensures that coaching is positioned to drive meaningful instructional growth.

A clear, shared understanding of the instructional coach’s role is essential for building trust and making coaching successful. This service supports coaches, leaders, and staff in working together to co-define what coaching is — and what it isn’t — in their district or school. Through facilitated conversations, we’ll help teams customize the role of the coach to fit their local needs and vision. We’ll also address common misconceptions about coaching, including the important distinction between coaching and evaluating, ensuring that coaching partnerships are built on trust, collaboration, and growth.

This service includes:

• Facilitated Conversations: Supporting coaches in working with leadership and staff to co-define the purpose and structure of instructional coaching customized to their district or school context.
• Clarifying Role vs. Evaluator: Addressing misunderstandings about the coach’s role in evaluation and reinforcing the importance of coaching as a non-evaluative, growth-focused partnership.

Effective professional learning doesn’t happen accidentally — it’s carefully planned with both implementation and adult learning in mind. This service partners with district leaders and instructional coaches to collaboratively design professional learning experiences that are research-based, engaging, and built for impact. Together, we co-plan sessions that draw on principles of implementation science and adult learning theory, ensuring that learning is relevant, actionable, and sustainable. Support can include co-implementation alongside district teams or coaching administrators and instructional coaches to confidently lead professional learning themselves. Whether planning for a single session or a year-long learning arc, this service helps districts build professional learning that truly supports teacher growth and student success.