Solutions
Choose innovative products that engage teachers, inspire students, and strengthen the learning process.
Scaffolded Solutions
Ensure a bright future for new teachers.
Effective mentoring and induction programs provide crucial guidance and support to help new teachers succeed. Scaffolded Solutions is your comprehensive support system for beginning teachers as they navigate their first years in the classroom.
Scaffolded Solutions draws on over 20 years of experience developing, implementing, and evaluating beginning teacher induction programs. Participation includes the following:
Professional Learning that builds the knowledge base for mentors, mentor program coordinators, principals, and new teachers:
- Research-based training for mentor teachers that focuses on the critical three-year period when beginning teachers often leave
- Guidance for mentor program coordinators and principals that helps schools and districts build systemic induction programs
- Professional development that helps beginning teachers master the competencies required for student success
An Online Platform provides tools that facilitate quality interactions between beginning teachers and their mentors and principals and that help districts manage sound induction programs:
- Guided dialogues that provide structured learning opportunities between mentors and beginning teachers
- Progress evaluation and reporting tools that help illuminate areas for individual and program growth based on self-assessments, shared-observation feedback, and site usage
- Webinars that offer relevant developmental training and strategies for mentors and mentees to build on their knowledge about working collaboratively and with students
- Newsletters that provide continued support throughout the school year, with up-to-date resources and classroom tips
Program development and implementation that customizes induction programs to meet specific district and beginning teacher needs. Since 2010, Scaffolded Solutions has supported beginning teachers in 55 districts:
- 1,147 beginning teachers
- 958 mentors
- 167 principals
- 52 district coordinators
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Lesson Snap
Make instructional delivery easy.
New programs are often abandoned if first attempts take too much time to prepare or do not go as expected. Similarly, some programs are never adopted because of the perceived amount of upfront time a teacher would need to invest to prepare properly.
Lesson Snap is a web-based curriculum platform for teachers to present lessons in a simple, straightforward way from the first day with fidelity.
Teachers love Lesson Snap’s user-friendly qualities:
- Facilitated engagement and interaction with students, rather than following a teacher guide
- Class guidance through a lesson with easy-to-follow screens
- Greatly reduced planning hours
- Elimination of the extra step of generating additional resources for instructional delivery
Organizations choose Lesson Snap for the following reasons:
- Deliver new curricula or digitize existing curricula to scale use and ensure fidelity
- Demonstrate commitment to instruction that reinforces 21st century skills
- Monitor and evaluate implementation through an extensive data system
Lesson Snap launched in August 2016 and is currently used in 49 school districts and 4 private organizations.
Launch PL
Build professional learning communities.
Resources for Learning offers high-quality, standards-based professional development workshops that impact instruction and student learning.
Our workshops are different from many canned programs. They consist of facilitated conversations based on a teacher’s actual lesson plans and the work of his or her students. The workshops investigate essential questions that will impact their success and the success of their students. We work with you to tailor trainings to your specific needs for design, delivery, and everything in between.
We have empowered thousands of teachers with workshops on topics that include the following:
- Project-Based Learning
- Social-Emotional Learning
- Teaching Reading and Mathematics through CTE
- Equity Infusion
- Aligning Standards, Instruction, and Assessment
- 21st Century Skills
- Classroom Motivation
- Neuroscience Research in the Classroom
- Family and Community Partnerships
- Fine Arts and Curricular Connections
- And many others
Explore our workshops for your school or district.