Roster

Now enrolling founding members

Strategies that work.
People who get it.

Where classroom meets community.

A community of teachers, coaches, and leaders building better classrooms together. Real strategies you can try tomorrow, with the people and resources to pull them off.

Founding rate $150 for your first year through September 15.

  • Two strategies a monthVideos, guides and differentiated resources.
  • Coaching, not just contentMonthly live sessions and weekly drop-ins.
  • Watch yourself growTrack your confidence and earn badges.
  • Try it, then talk about itSpaces to ask, share and troubleshoot.
Two new strategies every month
Videos, guides, and differentiated resources
Live coaching every week
20 strategies across the school year
Optional graduate credit through the University of San Diego
Designed by a former AVID Center program manager
15+ years in education
Shared instructional language across classrooms

The real problem

PD doesn't fail because the ideas are bad. It fails because you're left to run them on your own.

Teachers leave a workshop full of ideas. Then the year starts. A strategy flops on a Tuesday, there's nobody to ask why, and by October the binder is on a shelf.

The issue was never effort. It's that the support ends when the session ends. One good day of training cannot compete with a whole year of figuring it out alone.

Teaching is strangely lonely work. What's missing isn't another initiative. It's people, and a place to put the work.

You leave with ideas, not a plan. A day of PD hands you twenty things to try and no way to choose. Two anchor strategies a month is a workload you can actually carry.

There's nobody to ask on Tuesday. The question that matters shows up mid-lesson, not at the workshop. Teachers, coaches, and leaders each get a space where that question lands with people who understand it.

You can't see yourself getting better. Growth happens too slowly to notice from the inside. A self-check after each strategy turns a vague feeling into something you can look at.

New initiatives pile on top of old ones. One shared set of strategies across the year means the work compounds instead of competing with itself.

Nobody can see it working across classrooms. Without shared instructional language, walkthroughs and feedback never quite connect to what teachers are practising.

The ARC Model™

A structured path from inspiration to lasting practice.

Three intentional phases. Each one builds on the last — creating a school-wide system that grows stronger over time.

Phase 1

Align Systems

Schools establish a strong instructional foundation. Teachers implement high-impact strategies consistently while administrators develop a shared language for walkthroughs and coaching.

Focus Coherence and consistency across classrooms
Outcome Instructional alignment school-wide

Phase 2

Raise Rigor

Schools refine and layer strategies to elevate student thinking. Teachers shift cognitive load to students — moving from doing the thinking for them to building their capacity to think independently.

Focus Deepening academic thinking and intentional practice
Outcome Visible increase in student discourse and ownership

Phase 3

Create Capacity

Schools build internal systems that sustain growth beyond the partnership. Teacher leaders emerge. Administrators maintain aligned instructional systems. The work continues without dependency.

Focus Sustainability and instructional leadership
Outcome Embedded instructional leadership and long-term growth

Year 1 of The ARC Model™ · First quarter

A foundation built month by month.

Roster follows Year 1 of The ARC Model™: two anchor strategies a month, in an order that builds. Community in August creates the safety students need to ask questions in September, and those questions become the reason to read closely in October. You log a self-check after each strategy and watch your confidence move across the year.

This is the first quarter of a 10-month sequence.

Twenty strategies across the year, two a month, with the videos, resources and community to put them to work.

See the full year →

What changes

What educators experience inside Roster.

Teachers, coaches, and leaders work from the same strategies, but the job is different for each of you. So everyone gets their own space, their own resources, and their own people.

Something to try on Monday

Someone to ask on Tuesday

Confidence you can actually see

Shared language across classrooms

One system instead of five

For teachers

Grow with confidence.
Teach with intention.

Two strategies a monthVideos, quick guides, and differentiated resources for grades 2 through 12.

Somewhere to ask when it flopsDiscussion spaces to share what worked and troubleshoot what didn't.

Growth you can seeLog a self-check after each strategy and watch your confidence move across the year.

Badges as you build fluencyReach 8 out of 10 on a strategy and it counts toward your next badge.

For coaches

Coach with clarity.
Not just encouragement.

A rubric for every strategyKnow what beginning, refining, and advanced actually look like before you walk in.

A monthly Strategy LabStudy student work alongside coaches from other sites.

A Coaching Corner of your ownSupport resources built for the conversations you actually have.

The same language as your teachersEveryone working from one set of strategies and one set of look-fors.

For leaders

Lead with clarity.
Without another initiative.

A private Leadership LoungeConnect with other site leaders doing the work only you do.

Walkthroughs that connectLeader look-fors for every strategy, so feedback lands instead of floating.

One coherent systemTwo anchor strategies a month, rather than another initiative on the pile.

Growth you can see across the siteTeachers who opt in can have their fluency verified, so recognition is shared rather than assumed.

Coaching

Live coaching, included.

Content on its own does not change a classroom. Every Roster membership comes with live sessions where teachers, coaches, and leaders work through the strategies together, whatever your role.

Included with every membership
Add one-to-one coaching

For teachers

Individual coaching

Targeted one-to-one support focused on strategy implementation, lesson design, and shifting the cognitive load to students. Virtual or in person.

For teams

Group coaching

Coaching by content area or grade level, built around a shared instructional challenge. Suited to departments, grade-level teams, and content cohorts.

For coaches

Coaching the coach

Support for instructional coaches to deepen their own practice and build the capacity to sustain growth from inside the school.

For leaders

Leadership team coaching

For principals and assistant principals, focused on walkthrough alignment, coaching conversations, and using what you see to make instructional decisions.

One-to-one coaching is priced separately and matched to the area you want to work on. Email erica@yourclassroomacademy.com to talk it through.

The investment

A year of support for less than a day of PD.

Twenty strategies, live coaching every week, and a community that knows your work. Founding pricing is open until September 15.

Monthly

$20/month

Cancel anytime.

  • Two anchor strategies a month
  • Videos, guides and differentiated resources
  • Strategy Lab and weekly drop-ins
  • Your own growth dashboard
Founding rate

First year

$200

$150/year

About $12.50 a month. Join by September 15 to lock it in.

  • Everything in monthly
  • All twenty strategies across the year
  • $50 off, for your first year
  • Optional graduate credit available

Whole staff

Let's talk

Sponsor your teachers and coaches together, on one invoice.

  • Everyone on your site in one place
  • Leadership Lounge and Coaching Corner included
  • Verified fluency for teachers who opt in
  • One-to-one coaching can be added

Bringing your whole staff? Teachers can join individually, or email me and I'll put together pricing to sponsor and enroll your team. Graduate credit is optional and available through the University of San Diego.

Live sample dashboard

Lincoln Elementary

This is the leadership view, running on live data. Every time a teacher logs a self-check it lands here, so leaders can see where confidence is building across the whole site without waiting for a survey at the end of the year.

Every teacher's progress at a glance Strategies tried and fluency reached Confidence by strategy, and over time Who has opted in for observation

Sample names and data. Click any teacher to open their full journey.

Administrator voices

What school leaders are saying

"Finally, PD that my teachers actually look forward to — and that I can see making a difference in classrooms."

— Principal, California

"The ARC Model gave us a shared language for the first time. Walkthroughs finally feel purposeful instead of performative."

— Assistant Principal, California

"We've tried so many programs. This is the first one that actually stuck because it built on what we already had."

— Instructional Coach, Hawaii

Teacher voices

What teachers are saying

"Participation is way up — the students like having multiple ways to respond to content. Students are more self-sufficient and are taking ownership over their learning."

— Teacher, Partner School

"I like the habit of reflecting on strategies. I haven't done that since Induction. I think this would be very helpful for new teachers — those who are in years 1–3 of teaching."

— Teacher, Partner School

"Students have said they feel more prepared for AP classes next year. Students are becoming more academically confident."

— Teacher, Partner School

Ready to get started?

Your teachers are ready for PD that actually works.

Let's talk about what alignment, rigor, and capacity building could look like at your school.

No pressure. Just a conversation.