Educator effectiveness, made measurable.
Most K-12 professional development counts training hours. engage2learn first assesses practice in your schools with tools developed at Harvard and validated in the Gates Foundation MET study, designs your plan from the findings, coaches those skills, and shows the student achievement gap closing this year.
We make your district better at making every educator effective.
- Harvard and the Gates Foundation MET study behind the Tripod 7Cs Assessment
- ESSA Tier 2 / Tier 3 evidence for our coaching
- 98% of coached teachers retained over five years
Trusted by district and state partners
One partner for the whole cycle.
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.
- 01
Diagnose
Research-validated assessments pinpoint the educator skills your student-outcome gap is made of, by school, before anyone sits beside a teacher.
Assessments & Software - 02
Design
Build 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 & Design - 03
Coach
Former 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 Improvement - 04
Connect to community
Leaders 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 & Events
Partners 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.
By the numbers.
We treat every district like they’re our only partner, but the data tells an even bigger story.
Know before you spend.
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 |
Tell us the problem, and we’ll match the solution.
Eight questions districts bring us, in the order of the cycle: diagnose, design, coach, and connect to community. Start at any step.
- If you’re thinking"Which teaching practices should our coaches focus on?" Start withTripod 7Cs Assessment Students rate their classrooms on seven components
- If you’re thinking"We are writing a strategic plan and need every voice in it." Start withData Triangle Students, staff and families answer the same questions
- If you’re thinking"We can’t see whether our professional learning is changing practice." Start withGroweLab Observation, coaching and PD in one platform
- If you’re thinking"We need a five-year district plan." Start withStrategic Design Engage, Design, Plan, Lead
- If you’re thinking"We are choosing, or rolling out, high-quality instructional materials." Start withHQIM Planning & Design Vision before materials
- If you’re thinking"Our school is under an improvement plan." Start withSchool Improvement A Needs Assessment first, then coaching until it holds
- If you’re thinking"Our coaches were promoted, not prepared." Start withCoaches Academy Institute learning turned into daily practice
- If you’re thinking"Our leaders and coaches are too isolated to grow." Start withJim Knight Impact Network Monthly workshops with Jim Knight and other experts
What one partner running all of it changed.
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.”
What the work keeps teaching us.
Blog posts from our coaches and leaders, and stories from the school districts partnering with us for this work.
Making Teacher Observations Meaningful (Not Menacing)
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
Arlington ISD partnered with engage2learn to facilitate the transition from planning to operations and provide a consistent vision on learning across district classrooms.
That’s not just another PD company, is it?
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.
