Implementing new curriculum
The new curriculum is adopted. Now it has to show up in every classroom.
CoLab builds a community of practice around your curriculum implementation, so every educator has colleagues to turn to during training and long after it.
The challenge
Implementation doesn’t stall at launch. It stalls in the months after.
The training day goes well. Then a folder of resources, without the context of how to use them, goes untouched.
1 in 3
teachers get 5 hours or less of curriculum learning a year. Nearly 1 in 4 get none at all.
EdReports, 2023, using RAND data
50%
of teachers say their professional learning didn’t prepare them to use their district’s curriculum.
EdReports, 2023
Nearly 1 in 2
teachers use materials they made themselves alongside the adopted curriculum. That drops when school and district supports are in place.
RAND, 2025
A year of implementation
Training day
“Great PD day. By week three, the questions had nowhere to go.”
Teams train together, live or on CoLab, and keep asking in their grade-level Space.
Questions get answered the same week.
First units
“Someone has figured this out. I just don’t know who.”
Educators find the colleague who’s already solved it, with resources and the conversation about using them.
No classroom works it out alone.
Mid-year
“I don’t know what’s not working until the spring survey.”
Leaders see what’s spreading and where teams are stuck, and send a coach, a resource or a peer.
Support arrives while it still matters.
Next year
“Every fall, we start over.”
Every resource, answer and adaptation stays with your district.
Next year starts where this one finished.
What you’ll be able to do
Support every classroom while there’s still time.
Target training to the questions educators ask, unit by unit
Spread the best adaptations to every school
Share stories of practice changing, in your educators’ own words
More on insights
How we work with you
Your measure of success is ours.
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Goals that matter.
We track what’s changing in classrooms, not logins.
Collaborative, sustained professional learning changes practice. Darling-Hammond et al., 2017
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Built on what you have.
Your units, training and experts are the foundation.
03
A real partner, not a help desk.
Former K-12 educators, alongside your team.
Already working with a PD partner or instructional materials provider? CoLab works alongside them.
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