Our educational workshops are dynamic, research-driven, and focused on enhancing teaching practices. By addressing the instructional core—student engagement, teacher expertise, and content—we improve both individual teaching skills and the overall professional culture. We offer personalized workshops tailored to your organization’s needs, providing practical strategies that can be immediately applied. Our goal is to strengthen your approach, foster a strong teaching community, and improve student outcomes.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a proactive framework for designing instruction to support the widest range of learners. It removes barriers from the start and offers flexible ways for students to access content, engage with ideas, and show what they know.

We call Spark’s approach UDL+ because we integrate UDL’s student-centered framework with research-based teaching practices to strengthen clarity, build effective routines and classroom culture, and support high-level learning for all students.

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Instructional Rounds offer a structured, collaborative approach for teachers to observe each other’s classrooms and engage in meaningful discussions about what best supports student learning. Adapted from the medical model, this dynamic process brings faculty together to explore a shared “problem of practice”—such as making thinking visible or designing student-centered learning—through firsthand observation. Teachers leave with fresh strategies, actionable insights, and a clearer understanding of the student experience.

We help schools embed Instructional Rounds into their professional learning culture by providing the tools and training needed to make this process ongoing, sustainable, and energizing for faculty.

We emphasize the Vision in SuperVision because it provides a powerful lens for seeing, understanding, and supporting teacher growth. The most effective systems are transparent, sustainable, and growth-focused—designed to expand instructional repertoire and elevate student learning. We help schools build high-impact, time-efficient SuperVision practices that drive meaningful professional growth. From low-stakes pop-ins to asset-based observations, we equip instructional leaders with the skills and tools to observe with clarity, engage in purposeful instructional conversations, and coach teachers toward excellence.

Talking about Learning Management Systems is rarely anyone’s idea of a good time—so let us help you make the most of Canvas. As a Canvas Certified educator and pedagogy expert, we’ll share strategies and collaborate with you to build and maintain courses that are both effective and engaging. Our goal is to support the excellent teaching you're already doing, helping you get the most out of Canvas to make your work easier and more impactful.

With so many priorities in schools, it’s easy for professional learning to feel fragmented. Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) create a structured, ongoing process that helps educators focus deeply—analyzing student learning, refining instructional strategies, and tracking progress over time. Rooted in research, PLCs prioritize focused inquiry, collaboration, and data-driven decision-making, ensuring that professional growth leads to real student gains.

We help schools build PLCs that work, providing the framework, facilitation strategies, and tools to make them purposeful, sustainable, and results-driven. Whether launching new PLCs or strengthening existing ones, we help you create collaborative structures that drive instructional improvement and elevate student learning.

Warm, positive relationships between students and professional staff are the foundation of a strong learning community. Spark helps schools create clear guidelines for building these healthy professional relationships by establishing boundary-setting as an essential part of social-emotional learning.

Our workshops use current research and real case studies to build a shared understanding of appropriate interactions between teachers and students. We then work with your community to define expectations for upholding students’ personal, emotional, and behavioral boundaries with the goal of ensuring a warm, respectful, and safe school environment.

What is student engagement, and how does it relate to students' involvement, motivation, and emotional investment in their learning and campus community? We offer a comprehensive student engagement survey to gather insights into students' experiences and satisfaction, followed by clear, actionable data visualizations that inform decision-making. Additionally, we offer targeted workshops for faculty, staff, and student leaders to equip them with strategies to foster greater engagement in the classroom.

We help leadership teams leverage their collective expertise to align vision, build collaborative systems, and create sustainable pathways for continuous improvement.

Through research-backed frameworks and guided reflection, we partner to:

• Clarify instructional priorities and develop a shared language for supervising teaching and learning

• Strengthen team dynamics to enhance communication, trust, and shared accountability

• Develop systems for meaningful feedback and data-driven decision-making