Cognitive Coaching

Transform Teacher Practice Through Strategic Thinking Partnership

Move beyond traditional professional development that achieves only 10-20% implementation. Our cognitive coaching approach helps teachers develop deep expertise in foundational literacy skills while building sustainable instructional confidence.

The Professional Learning Crisis We Can't Ignore

You've seen this pattern before: excellent workshops where teachers take notes, ask thoughtful questions, and leave excited about implementing new strategies. Six months later, you visit classrooms to find most of what was taught has disappeared into the daily grind.

It's not because the content wasn't valuable. It's not because teachers don't care. It's because traditional group-based professional development simply cannot create lasting change in complex, individual classroom contexts.

The research is clear: Even excellent workshop training achieves only 10-20% implementation rates. Meanwhile, teachers struggle with systematic phonics instruction, feel uncertain about differentiating phonemic awareness activities, and lack confidence in using assessment data to adjust foundational skills instruction.

The cost? Students who could be reading successfully but aren't. Teachers leaving the profession because they feel ineffective despite training efforts. Leaders losing faith in professional development because they're not seeing results.

From Answer-Giving to Thinking Partnership

Cognitive coaching transforms your role from expert-who-provides-solutions to expert-who-develops-expertise. Instead of delivering content to groups, you work intensively with individual teachers to help them think more deeply about their specific students, challenges, and contexts.

What makes this different:

Strategic questioning that helps teachers discover insights about foundational skills instruction
Content expertise used to guide thinking rather than provide pre-packaged solutions
Individual focus on each teacher's specific classroom realities
Sustainable growth that builds internal capacity rather than external dependence

Your deep knowledge of systematic phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary development, and morphology becomes even more valuable because you use it to ask better questions and guide professional thinking.

The Cognitive Coaching Process

Phase 1: Relationship Building (Weeks 1-2) Establish trust and psychological safety while assessing current instructional practices and teacher thinking patterns around foundational skills.

Phase 2: Planning Conversations (Ongoing) Use strategic questioning to help teachers clarify systematic instruction objectives, identify success indicators, and develop evidence-based implementation strategies.

Phase 3: Reflecting Conversations (After instruction) Guide teachers in analyzing instructional effectiveness and constructing new understanding about student progress through systematic reflection protocols.

Phase 4: Problem-Resolving Conversations (As needed) Honor current challenges while exploring evidence-based solutions using inquiry-based approaches that develop teacher expertise.

Comprehensive Support for Deep Change

✓ Research-based framework integrating cognitive coaching with science of reading

✓ Individual coaching cycles with planning, reflecting, and problem-solving conversations

✓ Specialized foundational skills focus on phonemic awareness, phonics, and vocabulary

✓ Cultural responsiveness training embedded throughout all coaching interactions

✓ Assessment integration using data to inform instructional decisions

✓ Conversation maps and protocols providing structure for coaching interactions

✓ Implementation fidelity monitoring ensuring quality and effectiveness

✓ Gradual release model building internal coaching capacity over time

Perfect for Teachers and Organizations Ready for Deep Change

Schools/Districts That:

Have tried traditional PD with limited lasting results
Value building internal capacity over external dependence
Are committed to systematic foundational skills instruction
Want to address achievement gaps through improved teaching
Can support the time investment required for deep change

Not Right If:

You prefer quick fixes or magic solutions
You want to be told exactly what to do rather than develop thinking skills
You're not open to examining current practices critically
You can't commit to regular coaching conversations over time

Expertise in Both Coaching and Content

LMNO PD combines deep expertise in cognitive coaching methodologies with specialized knowledge of foundational literacy skills instruction. Our approach integrates 35+ years of cognitive coaching research with current science of reading evidence, ensuring both effective process and content expertise.

Multiple Pathways for Implementation

Individual Coaching Packages:

6-month intensive: $4,800 per teacher
12-month comprehensive: $8,400 per teacher
18-month mastery: $11,700 per teacher

School-Wide Models:

Collaborative coaching (3-5 teachers): $18,000-$28,000
Cognitive coaching flood (whole school): $35,000-$65,000
Facilitated consulting sessions: $2,500-$4,500 per day

District Implementation:

Multi-school rollout: Custom pricing based on scope
Train-the-trainer model: Pricing varies by cohort size
Sustainability planning included in all district packages