Our Master Coaches are highly skilled at assessing teachers’ needs and differentiating their approach to provide a successful learning experience for every professional. In addition, we assist teachers assess students’ needs and develop the capacity to utilize every lesson as an informal assessment.

Several checks and balances are maintained within the coach-teacher relationship to ensure a beneficial interaction between coaches, teachers and principals. Our coaches do NOT conduct formal evaluations of teachers. Rather than rate teachers on specific instructional methods and performance our Master Coaches place emphasis on evidence of student learning and the things teachers can do to assist students’ understanding. Success is determined by evidence of learning—not through implementation of a favored technique—and both the teacher and coach take responsibility for the success of the lesson.

Through examination of student work, analysis of classroom discourse, and inspection of local and state tests, we assist teachers develop their understanding and use of informal assessment. We believe that everyday, in every lesson, evidence of learning should be visible and nameable. Every task should be worth doing and is an assessment providing teachers with timely information about student learning that can be acted upon. Teachers learn to give useful, relevant, actionable feedback to students. Feedback that pinpoints what students can do to improve their work and deepen their understanding us one of the most powerful strategies for improving student achievement.

We assist teachers in developing effort-based practices through which students can increase their proficiency through multiple rounds of feedback and revision. Our Coaches assist teachers develop authentic learning communities in which students can provide one another with useful feedback and assess their own and each other’s work. Self-assessment and peer teaching are two extremely significant processes for improving learning. All of these efforts result in higher test scores and enduring life skills and learning capacity for both students and adults.

Find out how Master Coaches move an entire school or district to perform at higher and more satisfying levels of professionalism and significantly raise student achievement.