Adoption happens in schools. engage2learn is built for both: the leader who has to defend the decision, and the coach who has to live with it.
Read partner success storiesMost K-12 professional development only counts training hours: a workshop, a sign-in sheet, a certificate. engage2learn first assesses practice across your schools with diagnostic tools developed at Harvard and validated in the Gates Foundation MET study, designs your plan with you from what the assessment found, coaches exactly those skills alongside your educators, and shows you the student achievement gap closing this year.
Trusted by district and state partners
Most school districts buy diagnostics, planning, coaching and community from several vendors and get, at best, a piecemeal solution. engage2learn is the only partner offering both validated diagnostic assessments and coaching with public ESSA evidence, supported by proven tools and a community that connects the dots and keeps the cycle of growth turning.
Research-validated assessments pinpoint the educator skills your student-outcome gap is made of, by school, before anyone sits beside a teacher.
Assessments & SoftwareBuild the plan with your leaders around exactly those skills, and track it on the only platform built for a five-year K-12 strategic plan.
Planning & DesignFormer district practitioners coach alongside your educators in your schools, on the skills the diagnosis named, and GroweLab records each teacher’s practice as it improves.
Performance ImprovementLeaders working the same problems together in the Jim Knight Impact Network and at in-person events, with the assessment, the plan, the coaching logs and the growth data in one place.
Network & EventsPartners join at whichever step fits, from an assessment to the Network or an event. Each year the cycle starts again from what changed, and your own leaders run more of it every time.
We treat every district like they’re our only partner, but the data tells an even bigger story.
Most PD is chosen as a best guess and judged by the names on the sign-in sheet. With the time and money a district has, that guess is too expensive. engage2learn gathers the evidence first, so the plan and the coaching go to the skills your own data says will move student outcomes, and you can show your board what the investment bought.
| What you can show your board | A PD company | engage2learn |
|---|---|---|
| Training delivered on schedule | Yes | Yes |
| Hours and attendance logged | Yes | Yes |
| Baseline data on your district, gathered before a solution is chosen | No | Yes |
| The educator skills your student-outcome gap is made of, named by school | No | Yes |
| Coaching aimed at exactly those skills, with each teacher’s practice tracked as it improves | No | Yes |
| Growth a leader can see, by school, this year | No | Yes |
Four diagnostics, each with a named pedigree, each pinpointing a different layer of the educator skills a student-outcome gap is made of. Together they are the reason the plan and the coaching aim at the right thing.
“engage2learn was the only coaching organization we found that was already aligned to our research. We know the experts at engage2learn will be able to scale the impact of our validated assessment data insights and provide measurable results for schools.”
No surgeon operates without a diagnostic scan. No district should launch a major improvement effort without one.
For a district, the diagnostic scan is an assessment of the system behind its student-outcome gap and the specific educator skills that would move it. That is the first thing engage2learn does. Most professional development vendors do it last, if they do it at all.
Everything after the assessment is aimed at what it found: the plan, the coaching, the network, and growth data that shows your board which skills improved in which schools.
Students rate their own classroom on seven components. First fielded in 2001 by Dr. Ronald Ferguson at Harvard and selected by the Gates Foundation for its three-year Measures of Effective Teaching study.
Validated across 3,000+ teachers and 250,000 classrooms, where the MET Project found the Tripod 7Cs Assessment reliably predicts improvements in student achievement, engagement, motivation and academic mindsets.
Students, staff and families answer the same questions, so a leader sees where the three groups agree about a school and where they diverge, in Spanish and other languages, feeding the strategic plan and school improvement.
The district’s coaching program itself, assessed against Jim Knight’s Seven Success Factors: partnership, communication, leadership, the coaching process, data, the instructional playbook and system support. The result is a gap analysis that names which factors are holding coaching back.
The Seven Success Factors distill 30 years of Jim Knight’s research, begun in 1996, with more than 150,000 instructional coaches.
Coaches, and the leaders who coach, measured against six essential coaching actions, on ten years of peer-reviewed research and five large-scale studies at Rutgers and Arizona State.
Most district plans are written carefully and carried out on hope. engage2learn works with your team to design the plan around the educator skills your assessment named, so every priority has an owner and a measure, tracked in GroweLab from the first week, so your board can see it moving.
Already have a plan? We build on it, connecting its goals to what your assessment found.
Bring the question. We’ll match the engagement.
The Instructional Coaching Group, Jim Knight’s organization, is part of engage2learn. He is widely regarded as the founding father of instructional coaching, and his Seven Success Factors are the lens we assess a district’s coaching program against. His model is a partnership: the teacher identifies current reality and sets the goal, and the coach brings the expertise to get there, from high-impact strategies to modeling them in the classroom, as an equal partner. His monthly workshops anchor the Jim Knight Impact Network. We coach to the model a district chooses, whether that’s Jim Knight’s Impact Cycle, our own High-Performance Coaching System, or the district’s own. Our coaches, former district practitioners, work alongside your educators in your schools, and GroweLab records each teacher’s practice as it improves.
“For more than three decades, I’ve had the privilege of learning alongside remarkable coaches, teachers, and school leaders whose ideas and commitment have shaped everything we do.”
First-year partner results, in classrooms with engage2learn-coached teachers
Nobody closes a gap alone. engage2learn’s partners meet the leaders doing the same work in other districts, monthly and virtually in the Jim Knight Impact Network and in person at TLC and the Instructional Coaching Institutes, with the coaching platform in the same membership.
“It has definitely been a super-positive experience. Through engage2learn, we were able to provide an opportunity for our leaders to grow.”
A superintendent, principals and district leaders in four states, in their own words.
It wasn’t cookie-cutter. It was individualized for each district community, and that’s what we needed. We wanted something that was just for us.
“This is not top-down. It’s building together, collective ownership, and unity, looking at it from the perspective of student success. The endgame is the student.”
“We didn’t have the capacity with our in-house coaches to meet the need before. Now we’re using engage2learn to support us and our teachers through one-on-one [support] centered on the practices that teachers are now implementing in the classroom.”
“Through innovative coaching practices and strategic guidance, engage2learn has strengthened campus leadership capacity and contributed to measurable gains in overall student academic achievement.”
“It’s actionable! And because it’s actionable, our kids are going to soar.”
Blog posts from our coaches and leaders, and stories from the school districts partnering with us for this work.
Turn teacher observations from something teachers dread into a chance to grow, with feedback they can use and coaching that follows up.
Case studyArlington ISD partnered with engage2learn to facilitate the transition from planning to operations and provide a consistent vision on learning across district classrooms.
One assessment names the skills your student-outcome gap is made of. Everything after it is built to grow exactly those, measured as it happens, this year.
