Our vision is to empower communities to build coherent, learner-centered systems where every initiative aligns to the core purpose of high-quality instruction and deep learning for all students. It can be summarized in three simple phrases:
Belief in every learner.
Depth in each learning experience.
Coherence across the system.
Catalyst for Coherence is an expert partner to school, district and state system leaders driving learner centered change. Because each system is unique, all solutions are tailored to a community’s specific goals and assets, drawing on the community’s proven strengths.
We empower communities to find onramps to learner-centered solutions. Our services help you answer the following questions:
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In what ways does my leadership need to evolve in order to support a learner-centered transformation?
We provide executive coaching to empower state, district and school leaders to find effective and powerful learner-centered onramps.
How do I collect data related to our progress in becoming more learner-centric?
We work with leaders to create personalized data collection instruments that can measure progress and act as a formative assessment to monitor implementation.
What tools do I need to build in order to support educators in centering learners?
We co-design tools with educators (including proficiency scales, progressions, portfolios and more), driven by the needs of the communities we partner with. We work with leaders to create personalized data collection instruments that can measure progress and act as a formative assessment to monitor implementation.
Can I focus my learner-centered efforts on high quality instruction?
Absolutely! We specialize in centering high quality instruction and have deep expertise in all subjects, but are especially strong in Mathematics, Science and STEM.
How do I evolve my current system to be more learner-centric?
We facilitate system evolutions related to moving towards learner-centered environments, including adopting and/or operationalizing a Profile of a Learner and implementing Personalized Competency Based Learning.
How do I know where to begin?
We design, facilitate and deliver a needs assessment that can be used to make decisions about where to focus your efforts and identify coherence with your current initiatives. It can be incorporated as is or personalized to better fit the intentions of your community.
How do I build the capacity of educators in my community to better serve students and meet our community’s goals?
We provide professional learning on a variety of learner-centric topics for small teams to entire school districts including learner agency, high quality instruction, fostering a culture of learning, asset-based learning and more. We also support educators in achieving their Personalized Competency Based Learning Endorsement.
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