What We Offer

Coaching Cultures

Aligning Ecosystems, Building Communities

An optimal learning environment in classrooms depends on an aligned instructional culture throughout schools and districts. NTC’s programs ensure that all educators — teachers, coaches, leaders — are connected to the center, feel clear and secure everywhere in the ecosystem, and share equally in building and strengthening its identity.

When that happens, students are surrounded with support, so they can thrive academically and emotionally.

Our ingredients to implement long-lasting change, ecosystem sustainability, and continuous improvement:

Vision & Expectations

There is a shared vision of teaching and learning

Educator Mindset

Educators are invested in the vision and in the strategy to achieve it

Educator Capacity

Educators have the capacity to make the shared vision come to life

Curriculum

Educators have access to and use high-quality materials

Assessment

Educators have access to and use high-quality assessments to inform instruction

Student Support

There is a data-driven system to ensure all students thrive

Accountability

There is a system to monitor progress and hold educators accountable for student learning

Family and Community Partnership

Educators build ongoing and trusting relationships with families and the community they serve

How We Work With You

A partnership, not a product

When you partner with NTC, we co-create programs tailored to your unique needs, budget, and timeline, supported by a plan to implement, monitor, and sustain them.

We’ll sit down together and build your school an equitable, humanized educational culture of high-quality learning, increased teacher retention, and better student outcomes.

Here’s how we do it:

It starts with listening. You tell us:

Where your system is strong
Where your system is challenged
Where there are inequities
Where you want to drive change
The vision you imagine

Then let’s make a plan that will:

Center on students
Move toward equity and empathy
Involve educators at all levels of your system
Develop instructional best practices that are culturally appropriate and curriculum-activating
Aim for rigorous academic standards
Align school culture

Then we tailor to your system:

Instructional coaching and induction programs
Job-embedded educator supports at all levels
Peer networking solutions
Professional learning communities
Tools to measure demonstrated impact

You’re ensured continuous improvement with:

Two-year professional learning programs for educators at all levels
Two-year instructional peer coaching programs
Regular forums that maintain communities of educational practice

You get tools for long-term sustainability:

Mentorship programs for continuous evaluation
Data-driven evidence of student learning outcomes
A plan for evolving the curriculum appropriate to school culture
Professional learning opportunities to maintain and increase continuous connection