The Observation to Impact System
86% of administrators say they have enough content knowledge to give math teachers actionable feedback.
Yet, only 24% of math teachers say that classroom observations were useful in improving their instruction.
RAND Corporation, 2020
That gap is what keeps math instruction from improving no matter how many walkthroughs happen.
The Observation to Impact System is how you close it.
Foundations
Shared Vision Support
Duration: 4 weeks
Your leadership team leaves with a shared language for what high-quality math instruction looks like in your building, so every observer walks into a math classroom seeing, naming, and prioritizing the same things; and feedback reflects student learning, not observer preference.
Tools your team keeps:
Diagnostic assessment of your current observation practice
Customized Observation Pack your team can uses across classes and grade-levels
Sessions:
1 × 70-minute work session with your leadership team
2 × 45-minute structured check-ins to support implementation
Ideal for schools that over-rely on assessment
data to tell the full teaching and learning
story in their building.
Guided Alignment
Pattern Focused Support
Duration: 13 weeks
Your leadership team leaves with a shared language, a structured observation cycle, and a clear picture of the instructional patterns across your classrooms so decisions about teacher development are driven by evidence, not instinct.
Tools your team keeps:
Diagnostic assessment of your current observation practice
Customized Observation Pack your team can uses across classes and grade-levels
Customized Feedback Tool with 6-week observation schedule and targets
Sessions:
1 × 90-minute work session with your leadership team
3 × 45-minute structured check-ins to support implementation
1 × 60-minute structured debrief to examine patterns across classrooms
Ideal for leadership teams that want to connect class observations across classrooms to a clear instructional next step.
Full Implementation
Action-Focused Support
Duration: 27 weeks
Your leadership team leaves with a fully implemented observation and feedback system that has been built, practiced, and refined with your actual teachers in your actual classrooms. The full observation system is implemented and your leadership team has the tools to sustain it after the engagement ends.
Tools your team keeps:
Diagnostic assessment of your current observation practice
Customized Observation Pack your team uses repeatedly
Customized Feedback Tool with 2 × 6-week observation schedules and targets
Sessions:
1 × 120-minute work session with your leadership team
3 x full day in-person visits for walkthroughs with same-day debriefs
2 x post-observation feedback sessions with individual math teacher or grade-level math team
2 × 40-minute structured virtual check-ins
1 × 60-minute debrief to examine patterns across classrooms
Ideal for leadership teams that are
ready to move from building the system to implementing it, and want support that stays until the observation system is producing real instructional change.
The Problem
The only lever your school fully owns is the class observation and feedback system.
The district selects the PD.
The district selects the curriculum.
But what happens between your leadership team and your teachers belongs to your school.
Unfortunately, most observation systems were never built to use that lever well.
Walkthroughs happen, feedback is given, forms are signed, and six weeks later the same patterns exist.
Why? Because your observation system was designed to document math teachers, not develop their practice.
The Solution
One system. One problem. Three levels of support.
The Observation to Impact System gives your leadership team a shared language and lens for math classroom observations.
Feedback is consistent, specific, and designed to build teacher capacity and increase pedagogical knowledge.
No overhaul of current process required.
Three tiers of support depending on where your team is and how much you want to build together.
Results:
87%
of partnerships yield measurable increases in student mastery
100+
teachers and leaders partnered with
39→78%
pass rate over 3 years, Grade 8
case study
Who is this for?
K-12 Principals
Whether your scores are stagnant inconsistent across classrooms, or inconsistent for specific subgroups, classroom observations lay the groundwork for high-leverage feedback that changes instruction and builds teacher capacity. This system is built for your whole leadership team, and it starts with a conversation.
K-12 Assistant Principals
Classroom observations are the one lever you have to truly judge if teachers are implementing district initiatives and using high quality teaching materials. The Observation to Impact System gives your leadership team the infrastructure to use math observations to monitor implementation without requiring a complete overhaul of your current process or requiring more from a team that's already stretched.
K-12 Instructional Coaches
You know something is missing in instructional planning and delivery and you know there is a gap in the current observation system. This is what you bring to the leadership team during each meeting. The Observation to Impact System provides the exact framework you need to see results.