Planning conversations
Before a lesson or unit, we clarify goals, what success would look like in student thinking, and how the teacher will know.
Instructional & Leadership Coaching
What conditions help educators develop their own insights?
Good coaching doesn’t hand teachers a script, but it isn’t vague either. We work toward a clear goal in student thinking, and my coaching draws on my training in Cognitive Coaching℠ and Adaptive Schools: I ask open questions, listen closely, and help teachers and leaders think through their own planning, reflection, and problem solving, so the growth is theirs and it lasts.
What the work looks like
Reflecting conversations
After teaching, we look back at what happened, what students showed, and what the teacher wants to carry forward.
Problem-solving conversations
When something feels stuck, we explore the situation, the assumptions underneath it, and the resources the educator already has.
Leadership coaching
Principals and curriculum leaders get the same kind of thinking partnership for leading math and science improvement across a school or district.
Questions we might start with
- What are you hoping students will understand, and how will you know?
- What did you notice in students’ thinking today?
- What do you want to try next, and what might support it?
Your team’s own questions come first; these are only examples.
Connection to the Test Bank
When a teacher wants evidence to anchor a conversation, the Test Bank offers class snapshots, most-missed questions, focus areas, and diagnostic reports. Student names and answers stay with each class’s teacher; the teacher decides what to bring to coaching.
Consulting engagements and Test Bank licenses are scoped separately. Test Bank results are practice estimates, not official SBAC or state science test results.
Explore the Test Bank →Begin with your team’s questions
A good place to start is a One-Semester Improvement Cycle for one department, at one fixed price quoted up front. Larger engagements are shaped around your context.