SparkInsight coaches principals, instructional coaches, and teacher leaders through analyzing classroom observation evidence. It helps identify the level of strategy implementation, consider the likely impact on students, and move from observations to meaningful coaching conversations, action steps, and Schoolwide Focus Improvement Plans.

Why you want itSpend less time organizing scattered evidence and more time supporting teacher growth with clarity, consistency, and a shared instructional language. SparkInsight supports professional judgment; it is not an evaluation or surveillance tool.

SparkLessons coaches teachers through the decisions that make a lesson effective: what students must learn, how learning will be assessed, which high-yield strategies fit the goal, how students will be actively engaged, and where support may be needed. Teachers can create a new lesson or review an existing plan for alignment, rigor, clarity, and impact.

Why you want itReach an exceptionally strong, classroom-ready lesson faster without settling for a generic plan that ignores your students, standards, or professional expertise.

SparkUnits helps teachers turn standards and curriculum expectations into a coherent sequence of learning. It coaches users through learning goals, essential questions, assessments, lesson priorities, instructional strategies, and pacing so that daily lessons build toward meaningful unit outcomes.

Why you want itSee the big picture before investing hours in individual lessons. Create better alignment, reduce gaps and repetition, and keep every part of the unit focused on what students must ultimately know and do.

SparkLEQ coaches teachers through analyzing a standard, identifying the most important knowledge and thinking, writing a clear learning goal, and creating a rigorous Lesson Essential Question. The result becomes the instructional anchor for aligned assessment, learning activities, assignments, and feedback.

Why you want itStop wrestling with broad standards or vague objectives. Gain a clear target that focuses planning, makes purpose visible to students, and keeps instruction from drifting.

SparkHOT helps teachers move beyond simply labeling a task “higher order.” It coaches the selection of appropriate thinking processes, questions, learning activities, scaffolds, and student products that require learners to analyze, evaluate, create, reason, and transfer understanding.

Why you want itCreate rigorous thinking opportunities that are purposeful—not just harder. Give every student structured access to deeper learning while keeping activities aligned to the content goal.

SparkComprehension coaches teachers in choosing and planning comprehension strategies that match the content, learning goal, and cognitive demand. It helps structure what students will do before, during, and after learning so they actively process ideas, make connections, monitor understanding, and summarize meaning.

Why you want itReplace passive coverage with visible student thinking. Plan practical supports that improve understanding without lowering the rigor of the content.

SparkPreviewing helps teachers anticipate the background knowledge, vocabulary, concepts, and connections students need before beginning rigorous new content. It coaches the design of focused previewing experiences that reduce barriers and build readiness without preteaching the entire lesson.

Why you want itBe proactive instead of waiting for students to struggle. Help more learners enter grade-level instruction confident, curious, and prepared to make meaning.

SparkScaffolding coaches teachers through anticipating where students may struggle and selecting targeted supports for content, thinking, process, language, or independence. The emphasis stays on temporary, strategic assistance that helps students succeed with the intended grade-level learning.

Why you want itPlan support before frustration takes over. Make rigorous learning more accessible without simplifying the goal or creating a separate, lower-expectation lesson.

SparkAssignments helps teachers examine or create student work that aligns to the learning goal, expected level of thinking, and grade-level standard. It coaches decisions about task quality, directions, criteria for success, differentiation, and supports so the assignment provides useful evidence of learning.

Why you want itMake sure the work students complete reflects what they are actually expected to learn. Create clearer, more rigorous assignments—and avoid spending time on activities that cannot produce the evidence you need.

SparkWriting coaches teachers through choosing and planning Writing to Learn or Writing to Inform strategies that fit the learning goal. It helps shape purposeful prompts, thinking supports, models, organizers, criteria, and scaffolds so writing strengthens content learning rather than becoming an isolated activity.

Why you want itPlan meaningful writing faster and give students clearer support. Use writing to make thinking visible, deepen understanding, and improve how students communicate what they know.

SparkEngagement helps teachers select high-yield engagement strategies that match the learning goal and lesson moment. It coaches the details that make a strategy work: the student task, teacher directions and prompts, timing, accountability, grouping, and what evidence of learning to notice.

Why you want itQuickly turn “I need students more engaged” into a practical plan. Increase purposeful participation while keeping every student action connected to the learning.