Professional Learning
We design professional learning that helps educators support sensemaking, maintain productive struggle, and make purposeful decisions about instruction, materials, assessment, and AI.
What We Do
STAC’s professional learning helps educators turn vision into classroom practice. Our modular approach gives districts and schools the flexibility to deliver standalone sessions or combine them into a coherent program that strengthens teaching and learning. Educators deepen classroom practice with instruction-focused learning that makes student thinking visible and preserves productive struggle. Teams refine or develop curriculum aligned to NGSS and sensemaking goals. They design and interpret assessments that elicit reasoning and inform instruction. We guide purposeful AI integration to enhance student analysis and decision-making. And leaders gain support in aligning systems so instruction, curriculum, and assessment work together for lasting impact.
- Instruction-Focused Learning
- Curriculum Design & Adaptation
- Assessment Design & Interpretation
- AI in Science Education
- Leadership & System Alignment
How We’re Different
“Professional learning should help educators see, interpret, and respond to student thinking in real time.“
“Teachers need more than strategies—they need routines and decision points that guide how they respond to student thinking.”
“When educators understand how to maintain productive struggle, student learning deepens.”
“Designing for sensemaking means every lesson, task, and question is built to elicit reasoning.”
At STAC, we don’t just teach strategies, we help educators make instructional decisions that improve student thinking.
1. Designing for Sensemaking
We focus on how students build, revise, and communicate understanding.
2. Preserving Productive Struggle
We guide educators in maintaining the right level of challenge, so students do the thinking that matters.
3. Purposeful AI Use
We define clear roles for AI in the classroom, ensuring it supports reasoning and analysis rather than replacing it.
4. Classroom Routines That Work
Our professional learning includes evidence-based routines that make student thinking visible, structure productive struggle, and integrate smoothly with curriculum and assessment.
5. Systems-Level Alignment
Our PD connects instruction, curriculum, and assessment, helping leaders implement coherent, sustainable change across schools and districts.
What Partners Experience
Districts and organizations that partner with STAC see tangible improvements in classrooms and systems:
- Stronger alignment between instruction, curriculum, and assessment
- More frequent use of tasks that elicit student reasoning and evidence-based explanation
- Greater teacher clarity in instructional and design decision-making
- Intentional and effective use of AI to support, not replace, thinking
- Sustainable instructional shifts across schools and districts
Design Professional Learning That Leads to Real Change
Move beyond isolated initiatives. Build coherence across instruction, curriculum, and assessment.
Let’s design professional learning that supports real change in classrooms.