A Coherent Approach to Getting Students Back on Track

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Achievement and opportunity gaps were exacerbated by the pandemic, and students who were already furthest behind have struggled the most to recover. In schools across the country, instructional incoherence, particularly across core classrooms, intervention, and other academic supports, undermines learning acceleration and widens opportunity gaps.

Coherence by Design: Building Instructional Systems That Help Students Catch Up makes the case that districts can transform students’ experiences and outcomes by aligning instruction, content, and goals across all learning settings. When systems create the conditions for instructional coherence, every student can engage in grade-level learning. Drawing on national data and real district practice, this publication shows what coherence looks like in classrooms and across systems, why it matters for learning acceleration, and how coherent systems of academic support help educators make better decisions that lead to improved student outcomes. Learn more about how TNTP can help you build coherent instructional systems.

This work sits at the heart of TNTP’s new strategic plan. The gap between student access and capability is the defining challenge of this moment in education, and coherence, ensuring that every part of a student’s experience connects and builds toward meaningful outcomes, is the foundation for closing it.

Coherence starts with the daily choices educators and leaders make about how to teach, what to align to, and how to support every learner. Download the report to see what that looks like in practice and find actionable strategies to make coherent learning the norm for every student.