Instructional Coherence Accelerates Learning
We work alongside your team to align instruction, materials, and supports to grade-level learning—so all students, especially those furthest behind, are set up to succeed.
Fragmented Supports Undermine Learning
Most students who are behind grade level receive hours of additional support each week through intervention, tutoring, special education, or other academic supports—but little of that time reinforces students’ core grade-level learning.
Those disconnected supports often pull students in different directions, leaving it up to students to make sense of these fragmented experiences.
Incoherence like this doesn’t just slow learning—it can actively undermine it.
Learn more about the measurable costs of incoherence and ways to transform outcomes in Coherence by Design. Drawing on lessons from TNTP’s partnerships with more than 4,400 districts nationwide, we offer practical steps that districts can take to build coherent experiences for all students.
TNTP's Approach to Instructional Coherence
Our flexible and collaborative approach is grounded in classroom practice, informed by data, and focused on results you can sustain. Here's how we can help:
Step 1. Diagnose Barriers to Coherence
Step 2. Set a Clear Vision
Step 3. Support Implementation
Step 4. Measure What Works
First-grade students use movement to stay engaged during morning reading.
A Scalable Model for Literacy Gains in Knox County
Knox County, TN, partnered with TNTP to pilot a coherent reading intervention model that grouped students by their specific needs (instead of arbitrary screener cutoffs) and anchored intervention instruction in Tier I-aligned materials.
Students gained an extra 1.3 months of learning on average, and the lowest performing students—those in the bottom 10 percent—gained an additional 1.8 months of learning after one year. One school in the pilot reduced the number of students who needed intervention by 37 percentage points in a single year. Further, interventionists preferred the new coherent model by a nearly 4:1 ratio.
Our Instructional Coherence Services
We partner with schools, districts, and states to build coherent instruction that translates into student growth.
Academic Diagnostic
We analyze Tier I instruction across classrooms to help you improve core instruction where your students need it most.
Instructional Coherence Diagnostic
Not sure if your instruction is coherent? We review your intervention and student support systems, processes, tools, and outcomes to identify potential coherence gaps and highlight action steps.
HQIM Adoption & Implementation Support
Adopting high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) is only the beginning. We support curriculum implementation so teachers use HQIM effectively across Tier I and intervention.
Redesigning Intervention & Student Supports
If your support systems aren’t reinforcing grade-level learning, we help you rebuild coherent intervention systems and multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS)—from screening to progress monitoring.
EdTech Support & Advising
Too many dashboards? We help you manage instructional materials and student data so your technology strengthens coherence instead of adding another disconnected layer.
Multilingual Learners Support
Every student deserves a coherent path to grade-level learning. We conduct landscape analyses, asset mapping, and walkthroughs so all students—including multilingual learners—can accelerate learning.
Instructional Coherence Drives Impact
TNTP has spent nearly three decades partnering with leaders and educators to improve instruction, strengthen schools, and create more pathways to opportunity for all students. Our partnerships across classrooms, schools, and districts yield measurable results.
1.8 months
Additional months of learning in one year for lowest performing students receiving coherent intervention in Knox County, TN
+400%
Growth in one year of percent of kindergarteners reading on grade level in Fresno, CA
+250%
Growth in one year of percent of first graders reading on grade level in Dent-Phelps R-III, MO
Strengthen Instructional Coherence with TNTP
Discover how TNTP can help your school or district move beyond fragmented solutions. Learn what it takes to build and sustain instructional coherence across your schools.
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