Build Instructional Coherence Across Your District or State

State and district decisions shape what students experience every day. When policies, guidance, and investments align around a shared instructional vision, educators can focus on teaching—and students access learning that is connected, consistent, and built for their success. We partner with state leaders, school systems, and districts to build those conditions.

Build Systems Coherence

Build Instructional Coherence Across Your District or State — A school leader collaborates with a TNTP math coach.

What Is Systems Coherence?

Systems coherence is what happens when systems, departments, and roles work together toward a common goal. It creates the conditions for instructional coherence, aligning instruction, content, and goals across all learning spaces. When those layers work together, every experience at school prepares students to engage with grade-level content, building confidence and driving learning.

Our research, Coherence by Design and Coherence at Scale, defines what this alignment looks like and what it takes to build it across an entire system.

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Fragmented Systems Create Incoherent Learning

Incoherence isn’t usually the result of bad decisions. It’s what happens when good decisions accumulate without intentional alignment — disconnected curricula, siloed specialists, unrelated assessments, and intervention that doesn’t connect to core instruction. The result of that fragmentation is that educators spend energy reconciling competing signals instead of teaching, and students who need the most support have disjointed experiences.

We’ve spent years translating our research into practice. Here’s how we work with systems like yours.

Address Fragmented Systems

How TNTP Builds Instructional Coherence at Scale With Your Team

Our approach is deeply collaborative and flexible to support your goals and deliver what works for your students.

Step 1. Implement a Shared Vision

We set up systems, districts, and states to move from diagnostics and vision setting to operationalizing a plan across many levels, teams, and divisions.

Step 2. Scale Instructional Coherence

We collaborate with leaders to align policies, systems, and priorities to ensure all students receive high-quality instruction, materials, and academic supports rooted in core instruction.

Step 3. Break Down Silos to Drive Long-term Mobility

We support systems to collaborate across divisional silos so students access career-connected learning and other relevant experiences that prepare them for their futures during the school day.

4. Create Conditions for Sustained Growth

We help systems sustain meaningful improvement by intentionally aligning policies, schedules, staffing, materials, and data, so educators can reinforce grade-level learning across weeks, months, and years.

Trusted by School Systems Nationwide to Strengthen Coherence

We partner with districts, school systems, and states across the nation to design and strengthen coherent systems.

The support we received was really personalized. The teams that we worked with really got to know us and our context and provided the services that would help us grow.

TNTP Partner, South Shore Charter Public Schools

[What does TNTP do really well?] Long term strategic planning, support for district leaders, focus on student needs.

TNTP Partner, Hudson Public Schools (Massachusetts)

Our experience with TNTP was incredibly positive. The resources TNTP shared were incredibly helpful to build systems and drive change in our district.

TNTP Partner, Wachusett Regional School District

Services That Help You Scale Instructional Coherence

We bring deep expertise in academics, talent, and operations so states and districts can deliver and sustain instructional coherence at scale.

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Instructional Coherence State Policy Landscape Analysis

Comprehensive analyses of state policies that comprise the instructional policy ecosystem that districts operate within.

State Systems Coherence Diagnostic

Snapshots of your state student‑support systems and outcomes, highlighting coherence gaps and clear action steps.

Assessment Policy Mapping

Support with evaluating existing state assessment policies through the lens of coherence and recommend revisions to address fragmentation and supporting coherent instruction.

Strategic Planning, Implementation Roadmapping, and System Enablement

Translation of policy intent into practical, actionable strategic plans that can effectively establish systems coherence, leveraging both policy and practice insights.

Instructional Coherence Model Policy Language and Guidance Development

Support developing or refining policy language that is clear, aligned, and designed to scale instructional coherence across a state or district.

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Building the Foundation for AI-Ready Systems in Indianapolis

With TNTP’s coaching support, the Chief Systems Officer and data management team in Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) are developing and implementing a clear vision and strategy for managing coherent data systems. This partnership is creating the trusted infrastructure needed for future AI integration to support both operational and instructional coherence. With systems and structures aligned to the larger vision, cross-functional district leaders can make improvements to drive student outcomes.

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