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Guides for school and district leaders

Practical, classroom-tested guidance on observation, evaluation, feedback, and professional growth, one part of how districts support every educator, from hired to thriving.

Title II-A Allowable Uses: How to Fund It

What Title II-A allows, in plain terms, with the statute citations: coaching, induction, evaluation-and-support, surveys, and retention, and how to fund a platform with money you already receive.

Sample Positive Comments for Teacher Observations

50+ ready-to-use positive comment examples for classroom observations and evaluations, organized by domain.

Constructive Feedback Examples for Teacher Observations

40 growth-focused feedback stems for the harder conversation, organized by what you saw in the room.

NYC Danielson Rubric Guide

A practical guide to the Danielson Framework as used for teacher evaluation in New York City schools.

Teacher Retention Strategies That Actually Work

A research-backed guide for district leaders: why teachers leave, what turnover costs, and six strategies that keep good teachers.

The Real Cost of Teacher Turnover

What losing a teacher actually costs, the hidden costs behind the number, and how to estimate it for your district.

Instructional Coaching vs. Evaluation

Why separating developmental coaching from summative evaluation builds the trust that real growth requires.

Building a Teacher Growth Plan After an Observation

Turn an observation into a concrete, teacher-owned growth plan instead of a filed rating.

Teacher Evaluation Requirements by State

How teacher evaluation is governed across states, and where to find the requirements for yours.

Stay Interviews: A Principal's Guide

How to keep great teachers with a short, proactive conversation, including a bank of stay-interview questions.

The First 90 Days: New-Teacher Onboarding Checklist

A phased onboarding checklist that runs from before day one through the first 90 days and into induction.

How to Launch an Instructional Coaching Program

A step-by-step guide to standing up a coaching program, from model and cycle to caseloads, trust, and measuring impact.

Free Classroom Walkthrough Templates

Free, ready-to-use generic walkthrough and observation forms, plus guidance for districts using the Danielson or Marzano frameworks.

More guides are being added regularly. Each one connects back to the same system: walkthroughs, coaching, evaluations, goals, PD, surveys, recognition, and retention, run consistently across every school.

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Part of EX in Education

One piece of the educator experience.

Educator experience resources are one part of how districts support educators. In EX in Education, they connect to the bigger picture: walkthroughs, coaching, evaluations, goals, PD, recognition, surveys, and retention. Bring your own process, or start from a template, then run it across every school so every educator moves from hired to thriving.