Instructional Practices & Learning Expectations
Great teaching practices are built through collaboration, shared learning, and a commitment to growth. At Compass, we partner with educators and school teams to strengthen the practices, systems, and expectations that shape every student’s experience. Whether you’re working to align curriculum, improve classroom culture, refine grading practices, or build more inclusive and collaborative learning environments, we’re here to help you get there.
Professional Learning Topics
Curriculum & Resources Alignment
Essential Standards & Visible Learning
Evolving Grading Practices
Student Centered Learning
Classroom Management
We’ll provide a range of training opportunities that help teachers build structured, fair, and student-centered environments where every learner feels safe, engaged, and ready to reach their full potential.
Collaborative Culture
Students need more than a great teacher. They need an entire community willing to stand up for them. Compass helps schools spark the conversations and build the structures that inspire cooperation, mutual respect, and shared responsibility among everyone connected to the learning environment.
Co-Teaching Coaching & Training
Co-teaching is an educational model where two certified teachers share a classroom—collaborating on lesson planning, instruction, assessment, and student support. When it works well, it means more personalized attention, more flexible grouping, and a stronger learning environment for every student. Our team prepares co-teaching pairs with the tools, structures, and communication strategies they need to make that partnership effective from day one, with ongoing coaching and classroom observations to keep the collaboration strong over time.
Supportive Classroom
Learn how to build a collaborative classroom environment that works for everyone in the room, from certified staff to paraprofessionals, parent volunteers, and mentors. Participants in this training explore co-teaching models, roles, and data collection tools that help the whole team show up for students.
MTSS Framework
A strong Multi-Tiered System of Supports ensures every student gets the right level of instruction and intervention. We help schools and districts understand the MTSS framework, use data to identify student needs, and build sustainable systems that support all learners—from Tier 1 core instruction through more intensive supports.
Explicit Instruction
Explicit Instruction equips educators with clear, structured strategies proven to increase student achievement across grade levels and content areas.
Expand Your Professional Development
Coaching
Embedded PD
Tight schedules and substitute shortages shouldn’t stand in the way of professional learning. With Embedded PD, our expert STEM instructors lead hands-on activities with your students during the school day, so your teachers get focused, uninterrupted time to grow with our specialists.