Services

Curriculum

• Design and coordination

• Auditing and evaluation

• Alignment with instruction and assessment

No matter the standards on which your curriculum is based, your district knows it can't remain stagnant. Written curricula need to be regularly evaluated, revised, and improved. Our curriculum specialists can guide you through this process with a backwards design approach that results in a lean, efficient, and powerful product to serve your teachers well. We can facilitate your curriculum revision for a particular course, subject, or grade level, or even your entire district. This includes evaluating your current curriculum, training for your curriculum leaders and writers on research-based curriculum creation techniques, and the integration of elements beyond state standards such as college and career skills and technological competencies. Even further, we can provide drop-in multi-disciplinary lessons and courses ready to be deployed so that you have a starting point in revitalizing your students' learning experiences.

What do you do when teachers' instructional skills aren't quite at the level needed for the students your district serves? Administrators must be able to give feedback to teachers in a way that directly leads to student success - while avoiding unhelpful criticism that demoralizes teachers. Vertex can train your district on a growth-based teacher observation and feedback protocol that gives your teachers specific, actionable guidance to ensure your students get the best their teachers have to offer. This results in improved teacher efficacy and resilience. And what's more, we can work with your curriculum writers to create the frameworks needed for teachers to create dynamic, effective, differentiated lessons.

Instruction

• Lesson design and delivery evaluation

• Effective feedback delivery

• Alignment with curriculum and assessment

Facilitated Planning

• Instructional Coaching

• Professional Development

• Instructional Technology

Every educational organization has aspirations - explicit and implicit goals and outcomes that it believes are paramount for student success. Effectively moving the organization towards those aspirations requires purposeful, efficient, and focused planning. When the wants and needs of a multitude of stakeholders clash with the hard realities of resource constraints, chaos can ensue that derails the planning process. Let Vertex aid your district's planning efforts through facilitated conversations that streamline your work and help eliminate costly diversions and distractions. Our experts can guide your visionary leaders and key stakeholders through district-level planning for the creation of strategic plans, professional development plans, technology plans and more.