GroweLab · Features · Coaching

Say goodbye to scattered spreadsheets, manual data analysis and disconnected systems.

GroweLab is the all-in-one coaching platform that lets schools support more educators with less time, money and people.

A coach and a teacher at a table with the GroweLab coaching dashboard
Any modelOne-on-one, small group or PLC
Any rosterAcross multiple schools
Any coaching model, any time, anywhere

High-impact coaching, easier to run.

GroweLab’s interface is easy to use, so coaches spend less time on admin and more on coaching.

Easily manage your coaching calendar.

No matter how large your roster of teachers, GroweLab lets you plan and manage your coaching schedule across multiple schools. Google Calendar syncing and automated reminders mean nobody forgets or misses another coaching session.

A GroweLab coaching calendar for the week with a coachee roster showing badges, celebrations, sessions, classroom visits and the next session date for each teacher

Get clarity on coaching actions and next steps.

Keep your coaches focused with an easy-to-read dashboard that shows which action they need to take next with each coachee: a classroom observation, more intensive coaching support, or a quick celebration to recognize and encourage continued growth.

A GroweLab coach dashboard that lists the next action for each coachee: an observation, a session or a celebration

Customize coaching to fit your goals.

GroweLab works with your existing coaching program and system, and simplifies it. Create custom coaching logs and classroom walkthrough forms so your coaches provide consistent, high-quality support aligned to your school or district’s goals and priorities.

A custom coaching log and walkthrough form being set up in GroweLab
Coaching features that help your talent grow

Built into every session.

  1. 01

    To-do lists & action items

    Capture coaching notes and action items in real time to give coachees clarity, and reminders, on their next steps for growth.

  2. 02

    Goal setting & autonomy

    Set goals on relevant competencies drawn from the research, aligning and customizing coaching to each coachee’s job role and skill level.

  3. 03

    Curated learning resources

    Reach support materials in an instant through GroweLab’s library of resources, templates, online courses, videos and more.

  4. 04

    Growth portfolio

    Upload links, files and videos as evidence of implementation for coaches to review asynchronously and give feedback on.

Coaching is more than the coaching session

Go beyond the coaching cycle to a culture of growth.

Celebrate your teachers, and celebrate them often.

You know better than anyone how hard teachers work to do right by their students. GroweLab makes recognizing and celebrating them easy and fun: as teachers move along their individualized learning pathways, they earn progress badges, microcredentials and bragging rights.

Microcredentials & badging
A GroweLab celebration with confetti for a teacher who earned a badge

Conduct progress monitoring and classroom observations.

Replace compliance-based, anxiety-inducing classroom observations with routine, growth-focused progress monitoring centered on each teacher’s goals, ending in clear next steps. Schedule and document observations just as you would a coaching session, right in GroweLab.

Classroom observations
A GroweLab classroom observation form asking which portion of the lesson was observed and what was seen in the classroom setup, with four levels of small-group instruction, beside a teacher reading to children with their hands up

No more coaching-impact guessing games.

With coaching in one place, you can support more educators. Measuring progress and monitoring growth on an easy-to-read analytics dashboard gives you the data to show the direct impact of coaching on your teachers and staff.

Education analytics
GroweLab analytics: a session-attendance chart against a 90% goal and a competency-badges chart comparing last month and this month, beside two leaders reviewing a screen
In their words

A breakout year for coaching.

A big celebration with GroweLab is coaching has had a huge increase in the district. Having a place for coaches to go with a specific format of how to coach. There has been a lot of clarity and specificity added this year. We haven’t had a breakout year like this year with coaching.
District Leader, Harlingen CISD
Coaching for every role

Coaching for anyone who needs support in your district.

Teachers are not the only people who need coaching. GroweLab includes competencies, resources and tools that enable coaching for everyone in a school or district.

  • District-level leaders
  • Principals & school leadership
  • Instructional coaches & specialists
  • Classroom teachers
Since 2011

Built on partnerships with hundreds of districts nationwide since 2011, the collective experience of a team of former educators, and extensive research on how adults and children learn, GroweLab is designed to meet the needs of educators.

Since 2011
partnering with hundreds of districts nationwide
Where this sits in the cycle

Coaching, measured as it happens.

Coaching in GroweLab runs through every step of the cycle. Every session, observation and piece of evidence feeds one record of what changed in practice.

  1. You are here 01

    Diagnose

    Coaching logs and observations show what changed in practice, session by session.

    Assessments & Software
  2. You are here 02

    Design

    The plan names the skills the coaching targets.

    Planning & Design
  3. You are here 03

    Coach

    Former district practitioners coach those skills, logged in GroweLab, in any coaching model.

    Performance Improvement
  4. You are here 04

    Connect to community

    Coaches compare notes with peers in the Jim Knight Impact Network.

    Network & Events
3 to 6 other professional learning tools replaced
97% of users report confidence in their job-required skills
See how the whole cycle runs
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FAQ

Questions leaders ask.

Does GroweLab work with our existing coaching model?

Yes. GroweLab is coaching-model agnostic: it fits an existing one-on-one, small-group or PLC coaching program, whether it follows Jim Knight’s Impact Cycle, Get Better Faster or engage2learn’s Growe Coaching, with custom coaching logs and walkthrough forms aligned to your goals.

How do coaches keep track of large rosters?

A coach dashboard lists the next action for each coachee, whether an observation, more intensive support or a quick celebration. The coaching calendar covers multiple schools, syncs with Google Calendar and sends automated reminders so no session is missed.

What happens in a coaching session in GroweLab?

Coach and coachee record the conversation, celebrations and action items together in a live coaching log, set goals on competencies, pull resources from the library, and review evidence the teacher has uploaded to their growth portfolio.

Can principals and district leaders be coached in GroweLab too?

Yes. GroweLab includes competencies, resources and tools for coaching instructional coaches, principals, school leadership teams, central office and non-instructional staff.

See coaching in GroweLab

Your coaching model, in one place.

Tell us how coaching runs in your district today, and we’ll show you GroweLab with your coaching log, your walkthrough form and your roster in it.

Three educators plan together at a laptop in front of a GroweLab HQIM implementation plan showing 32 percent plan progress, phase status, risks and delays, and phase progress for planning, rollout and support