Learn . Develop . Implement . Evaluate . Manage

• What | You are seeking to identify and clearly articulate root causes of an issue.

• Services | Root cause analysis, systems diagrams of causal relationships. 

Teacher and Coach Evaluation 

• • What | You are looking to develop reliable and valid observation schedules to understand teacher performance and influencing factors.

  • Services | Teacher and/or coach observation rubric, performance action plans, action plan execution evaluation.

Problems Of Practice Analysis 

• • What | You are looking to articulate a problem of practice that may be at the micro-level (teacher, coach, or grade specific), meso-level (school or district), or macro-level (state or curriculum provider).

  • Services | Problem of practice analysis document, problem of practice action plan and execution strategy.

Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)

• • What | You are looking to establish PLCs that are subject or grade-specific.

  • Services | Developing teacher and coach capacity to leading and growing PLCs. Creating situated criteria for self-evaluation, PLC reflection analysis and action planning sessions with teachers and coaches.  

Professional Development

• • What | You are looking to build capacity of teacher leads, coaches and leadership in Data-Driven Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK), and classroom discourse. 

  • Services | Science professional development: Phenomena-based instruction, classroom discourse, and data-driven instruction; Mathematics professional development: making the shift to conceptual math (K-8), classroom discourse, and data-driven instruction.

Before Curriculum Adoption 

• • What | You are planning on adopting a new research-based curriculum in K-12 science from the following academic year and are looking to set up the implementation systems and structures that allow you to successfully adopt the curriculum. You are not sure what systems need to be erected or reformed. 

  • Services | Needs assessment of current teacher, coach and leader competency in curriculum adoption; Implementation vision and outcomes document; Implementation roadmap; implementation playbook. 

After Curriculum Adoption 

• What | You want to: 1) evaluate current state of implementation, 2) revise implementation goals, 3)create or revise implementation strategic plan playbook.  

• Services | Health of implementation report; revised implementation playbook. 

Science Curriculum Audit 

• What | Audit of an in-house built curriculum: assessing the validity of the content (accuracy) and assessments (are the checks for understanding, exit tickets, end-of-chapter and end-of-unit assessments).  

• Services | Curriculum audit report, curriculum revision plan, curriculum professional development plan for teachers and coaches.

Standards Aligned Phenomena-Driven Science Curriculum Design

• What | You are looking to develop a phenomena-driven curriculum and would like help with designing the architecture of the curriculum based on NGSS or Science TEKS.

• Services | 

  • Single grade: developing unit and chapter phenomena, unit storylines, objectives, students expectations, and assessments, support with designing lesson plans. 

  • Horizontal band: Learning progressions across grades to meet state standards; Unit phenomena across grades.

  • Horizontal band: assessment item development based on state standards and exams.

Assessments Validity and reliability in K-8 Math and K-12 Science 

• What | You are looking to evaluate the validity (do the assessments items test what students learned in the curriculum? do they really test the given learning objectives? do the items assess student expectations noted in the standards?) and reliability of assessment items against state standards and examinations.

• Services | 

  • Instrument Validity: construct, criterion and content validity of assessments.

  • Instrument reliability: does the assessment measure learning irrespective of the time of day, day of the week, student demographics (agreed upon assumptions apply).

Product and Project Management

• What | Establish project plans for designing instructional materials in compliance with state proclamation requirements.

• Services | Smartsheet project plans to track, integrate and coordinate activities across teams.