Path 1: Train the Trainer
We train your coaches. Your coaches train your staff. Your district keeps the capacity.This is how districts scale high-quality NJSLA-aligned professional development across multiple buildings without bringing in an outside consultant for every session. We prepare your internal coaches through a professional video series and detailed facilitator guides, then they deliver the workshops in-house — on your calendar, in your buildings, with your staff.Each workshop package includes a video training series, a step-by-step facilitator guide, all participant materials in editable formats licensed for unlimited internal use, and ongoing access to ask questions as coaches prepare and deliver.
Available for all workshops in the following sections:
ELA: Reading, Writing & Integrated Literacy
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Designing NJSLA-Aligned ELA Lessons for an Adaptive World (Grades 3–8, half or full day) — Translates the structural design of the NJSLA directly into lesson architecture. Teachers leave with grade-band templates grounded in their own texts that build the comprehension, reasoning, and writing habits the test rewards.
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Teaching Students to Read Like the Test — Without Teaching to the Test (Grades 3–6, 3 hours) — Equips teachers with routines to build Part A/Part B logic, multi-select reasoning, and evidence-selection habits organically through regular instruction.
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Integrated Reading–Writing for NJSLA ELA (Grades 3–8, full day) — Builds a coherent instructional throughline from grade 3 through grade 8 that NJSLA extended writing tasks demand. Includes calibration practice using the scoring rubric that students will be evaluated against.
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Building High-Quality NJSLA-Aligned Classroom Assessments — ELA (District curriculum teams & coaches, 3–4 hours) — Teaches teams to build assessments that mirror the cognitive demands of the NJSLA: the right item types, the right DOK distribution, and the right relationship between reading and writing.
Mathematics: Reasoning, Representation & Justification
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Designing NJSLA-Aligned Math Tasks & Lessons (Grades 3–8, half or full day) — Shows teachers and coaches how to design problem sets that develop the full range of NJSLA Math demands — multi-step reasoning, flexible representation, written justification — within a regular lesson structure.
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Teaching Students to "Show the Math Thinking" (Math teachers & interventionists, 3 hours) — Gives teachers concrete discourse routines, sentence frames, and task-conversion strategies that make mathematical justification a daily habit, so constructed-response items feel familiar on test day.
Schoolwide Practice: DOK Across All Content Areas
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DOK in Daily Practice: Moving Beyond Recall Across All Subjects (All content-area teachers, 3 hours) — Builds a shared, calibrated understanding of Webb's Depth of Knowledge across the full faculty, with examples from ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies, and the arts. Establishes schoolwide routines students encounter in every classroom.
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NJSLA-Ready Classrooms: Test-Savvy Habits Without Test Prep (Classroom teachers & coaches, 2–3 hours) — Gives teachers the classroom norms, warm-up structures, and exit ticket designs that develop test-ready habits organically, all year long.
Data, Coaching & PLCs: Turning Results into Action
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From NJSLA Data to Instructional Action (PLC leaders, coaches & teacher teams, 3-part series — 90 minutes each) — Teaches teacher teams to read NJSLA results in a way that generates specific instructional targets, use student work to sharpen their diagnosis, and design focused short-cycle response plans that close gaps before the next assessment.
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Coaching for NJSLA-Aligned Instruction (Instructional coaches, supervisors & lead teachers, half day) — Trains coaches to observe, name, and develop the specific instructional practices that produce NJSLA-aligned classrooms, including an observation tool, coaching conversation framework, and micro-modeling practice.
Systems & Long-Term Planning
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Yearlong NJSLA-Responsive Curriculum Mapping (District curriculum teams & building leadership, half day or extended series) — Guides teams through building a yearlong exposure map that makes NJSLA alignment visible, plannable, and sustainable across grade levels and buildings.
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NJSLA Communication Toolkit for Schools (Admin teams & family engagement coordinators, 2 hours) — Equips administrative teams to build and deliver clear, consistent, honest communication about the NJSLA to families and the community, including editable slide decks, letter templates, and FAQ sheets.
Family & Community Engagement
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Demystifying the NJSLA: A Parent & Family Presentation (Parents, guardians & community members, 60–90 minutes) — An honest, accessible session that leaves families informed, calm, and equipped with practical strategies to support learning at home — without turning home time into test prep.
Personalized Support
With customized assessments, expert-led training, and actionable instructional support, we provide districts with the tools they need to elevate student learning and performance.