RBT acts as a critical friend and partner with district leaders, school leaders, and teachers to coordinate a long-term change process that produces results: changes in culture, leadership, and classroom practice that have a direct and lasting impact on student achievement and motivation. Our staff and consultants work in concert with the team throughout the process.

Plan for Sustainable Improvement 

• Assessing strengths and needs
• Determining the highest-leverage entry point
• Establishing shared goals and expectations
• Engaging stakeholders
• Aligning RBT’s work with other initiatives
• Maintaining a focus on improving classroom teaching and learning

Implement Professional Development, Coaching, and Consulting

• Tailoring professional learning experiences to participants’ needs
• Using ongoing formative assessment to adjust programs
• Blending face-to-face professional development with technology-based delivery
• Combining workshops with classroom and leadership coaching
• Customizing consulting

Monitor Implementation

• Debriefing on a regular basis with the team
• Using formative data to make mid-course corrections
• Building the capacity of leaders to manage complex change initiatives
• Identifying and addressing needs as they arise
• Anticipating and solving problems

Sustain Improvement

• Using implementation and impact data to plan for the next high-leverage intervention
• Assisting in creating structures to institutionalize changes, e.g., instructional coaches, Data Coaches, Data Teams, growth-oriented teacher evaluation systems, and Teaching, Learning, and Leading Academies