Positive Impact on Student & Teacher Performance

From kindergarten classrooms to the excitement of high school, our focus is crystal clear: empowering students to reach their full potential. We’re committed to bridging achievement gaps and building learning environments centered around student needs.

Educational Directions specializes in crafting personalized academic blueprints designed to boost student success. Our strategies not only elevate student performance but also ignite the leadership spark in educators, transforming schools into thriving communities of learners.

We partner with school leaders to create powerful roadmaps for change, focusing on three essential pillars: teacher excellence, student achievement, and a vibrant school culture. Our flexible approach allows us to tailor solutions to fit any grade level, subject, or specific school challenge.

Educational Directions staff are well versed in the challenges faced by educators today. Our coaches not only average over 35 years of service to education, but also over 15 years with our company. This ensures that your school leaders and students learn ground-breaking methodologies for academic performance from coaches that fully understand where your schools are, as well as where they need to be.

Educational Directions Philosophy of "Student-Centered" Teaching

Educational Directions’ approach reshapes the way a school thinks about “work.” Our focus on defining and acting on “the right work” produces improved performance in each student. Our professional development training focuses on what the learner needs to have achieved at specific times in the school year and strategies for preparing schools to provide those experiences to learners. In the schools, our coaches help apply those strategies to the school’s specific circumstances and needs. We address the root causes of peer performance by putting greater focus on student work than on test scores that lack context.

Improve Student Learning

Educational Directions uses a number of strategies to improve student learning and academic achievement. The core of our approach is our understanding of The 5 Legged Model, and attention to The Rhythm of the Learner Year and the types of experiences students need to have in each part of the year. We will also use a variety of data points other than test scores to identify and to track student performance. Teachers and Educational Directions staff utilize data, portfolios, and assessment samples in PLC discussions to inform decisions about student needs.

Increase Learning Opportunities

Another core element of the Educational Directions approach to students is focus on equal opportunity in experience as learner and performer. Academic and management rituals and routines are used to build an equal experience basis for all students and performers. As part of this, Educational Directions uses diagnostic tools to determine where students are as learner and performer as a starting point to develop a plan to move all students to the transition expectations established for that particular academic year.

Innovate Learning Methods

Educational Directions encourages innovation by training school leadership and teaching staff to do student-focused unit and lesson plans. We establish goals for the year, translated into course, unit, and lesson plans and used to establish specific competencies expected of all students. The diagnostics that identify where students start that learning process help determine the types and levels of work that students need to experience to move from where they are to where they need to be by the end of the academic year.

Monitor Student Achievement

The development of a true “plan backwards – deliver forwards” curriculum depends upon extensive monitoring of not only student scores; it also depends upon the learning and performing competencies, attitudes, and perceptions required for the student to demonstrate thier potential as a performer and to make successful transitions to the next level.

Educational Methodology and Performance Model

Educational Directions defines student performance as a student’s ability to independently retrieve learning from long term memory and use that information and those processes at the level at which he or she will be assessed.

Student performance rests on five legs. Learn more about our 5 Legged Model of Student Performance.

We split the year into discrete periods, each with priorities building toward an independent student learner and performer who understands proficiency and gives best effort. These periods make up what we call the “Rhythm of the Learner Year.”