Supporting High-Quality Instructional Materials and Developing Coherent Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Systems 

Every student deserves a high-quality education, and that starts with equipping schools and teachers with high-quality instructional materials (HQIM). We partner with school and district leaders to build a coherent curriculum, instruction, and assessment systems across the full curriculum life cycle, from adoption and reviews through implementation. 

How We Help

A curriculum audit is a snapshot of the existing materials. What you do next determines your students’ lived experience. We begin the audit by working with school and district leaders to understand your needs and determine where you are in the curriculum life cycle. From there, we review your curriculum, instructional materials, and assessments against rigorous rubrics, then partner with you across the full life cycle to select, adopt, update, and implement HQIM that drive student success.

Our services:

• Curriculum Audit: we review your current curriculum, instructional materials, and assessments to understand what’s working and determine areas of opportunity.
• Adoption Support: we help you navigate the process of selecting new instructional materials, from forming your selection committee to providing evidence-based recommendations.
• Implementation Support: we help you put new materials into sustainable practice over time.
• Instructional Leadership: we help school and district leaders build the skills and structure needed to support strong instruction systemwide.

Service Delivery

• Online, onsite, and hybrid

Who Will Benefit

• District administrators 
• District curriculum coordinators 
• School administrators 
• Instructional coaches 
• Students 
• Teachers 

Connecting Research With Practice

Instructional coherence is the strategic alignment of curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment across grade levels and subjects to ensure a seamless educational experience for all students. Our team helps you build this instructional coherence following research by David Sherer and Morgan S. Polikoff (2017), which indicates that coherence within standards, assessments, and instructional materials is associated with stronger student performance. Additionally, the work of Coburn and Penuel (2016) underscores the importance of coherence for systemwide educational improvement, emphasizing the need to align policy and practice to support consistent, high-quality instruction.  

Sherer, D., and Polikoff, M. S. (2017). District Adoption of Instructional Materials: Findings from the American Instructional Resources (Survey). Educational Policy, 31(5), 700–737. https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904817719523 

Coburn, C. E., and Penuel, W. R. (2016). Research–Practice Partnerships in Education: Outcomes, Dynamics, and Open Questions. Educational Researcher, 45(1), 48–54. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X16631750