We know coaches, mentors, and administrators already carry a full workload. The Coaching Practice provides a ready-to-use implementation system so the time you invest is spent adapting and leading the work, rather than creating it from scratch.

A few hours spent building a clear plan this summer can save countless hours of planning and decision-making throughout the year.

The training videos in The Teaching Practice can be completed in about 8 hours, throughout the course of the year (and you can watch them on 1.5x speed). The learning is job-embedded, meaning teachers implement each practice directly in their classrooms. Teachers typically watch a short lesson, apply it in their classroom, and return when they're ready for the next step.

The result is a clear plan for professional learning, a shared framework for teaching and learning, and a system you can return to year after year.

Many educators tell us this work has transformed their practice and continues to shape how they teach, coach, and lead long after the first year.

The professional learning for both coaches and teachers is delivered through prerecorded, on-demand training.

Teachers can access the content anytime, from any device. There is no travel, substitute coverage, or lost instructional time required. The learning is designed to fit into the life of a teacher and be applied directly in the classroom as they go.

Coaches receive the same flexibility. Videos can be paused, replayed, and watched at an accelerated speed, making it easy to learn on your schedule and revisit key ideas throughout the year.

In addition to the on-demand training, coaches will have opportunities to connect live with Gail and other coaches throughout the year to ask questions, share implementation experiences, and learn from one another.

No. You can begin with a Coaching Practice license and explore the program before rolling it out schoolwide.

That said, we highly recommend including teacher licenses whenever possible. The greatest impact happens when coaches and teachers share the same language, framework, and professional learning experience throughout the year.

We understand some coaches will choose to start with their own license first, build familiarity with the coaching curriculum, and then add teacher licenses once they've developed their implementation plan. That's a great approach and teacher licenses can be added at any time.

To support schools as they finalize budgets and professional learning plans for next year, teacher licenses are currently available for $99 per teacher. This is the lowest price they will ever be offered and pricing will increase sometime this summer.

While teacher licenses are not required, they provide the strongest path toward creating instructional consistency across classrooms and maximizing the impact of your coaching work.

Yes and it's also bigger than that. The Coaching Practice and Teaching Practice build on the same foundations that made Daily 5 and CAFE successful: student independence, engaged learners, and meaningful one-on-one and small group instruction.

Over time, that work expanded beyond literacy into a broader framework for effective teaching across all subjects.

You'll learn the principles behind Daily 5 and CAFE, along with a complete framework for helping teachers build independence, strengthen instruction, and create learning that transfers beyond the lesson.

Think of them as three parts of the same system.

Prepared Classroom is the research and framework. The book documents the high-impact teaching practices that create the conditions for strong teaching, student independence, and lasting learning.

The Teaching Practice helps teachers learn and implement those practices in their own classrooms through online courses, resources, and step-by-step guidance.

The Coaching Practice helps coaches, mentors, and school leaders implement those same practices across an entire school. It includes the planning tools, implementation roadmap, and leadership resources needed to support teacher growth over time.

All three are built around the same instructional foundations.

Prepared Classroom explains the practices.
The Teaching Practice helps teachers implement them.
The Coaching Practice helps schools scale them.

Completely. Science of Reading tells you what to teach: the content, the phonics, the structured literacy practices that the research supports. Inside the learning platform, you'll learn The Teaching Structure, which organizes how you teach your lesson and what happens in the entire block around that instruction so learning transfers into student work.

Rebecca Silverman, a Stanford researcher studying Science of Reading implementation, named the gap directly in 2026: teachers need infrastructure for continued professional learning so they can dive deeper, get feedback, and grow. That infrastructure is what The Teaching Practice provides.

Nell Duke and Kelly Cartwright's Active View of Reading research shows that student reading success depends not just on decoding and language comprehension but on self-regulation, executive functioning, and motivation. Those are capacities no curriculum builds. They are built through the teaching practices inside The Teaching Structure.

Maryanne Wolf adds an important note from neuroscience: we need to address both phonics and the broader comprehension and language capacities that develop through extended reading practice. The Teaching Structure is built to hold all of it.

Hollis Scarborough's Reading Rope research shows that skilled reading is made up of many strands: word recognition, language comprehension, background knowledge, vocabulary, and more. No single program addresses all of them. The Teaching Structure creates the conditions for every strand to be taught, practiced, and developed.

Science of Reading and the Teaching Structure are the complete picture together.