Instructional Coaching
Five Ways Instructional Coaches Can Simplify Math Planning
Build practical planning routines around the TEKS and the actual lessons teachers will use. These five approaches keep reference tools in a supporting role.
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For instructional coaches
Spend more time supporting instruction and less time locating materials.
Coaches work across grade levels and programs. TEKS Navigator gives you one place to locate documented references before a planning conversation.
The challenge
Where coaching time goes
- Preparing for PLCs across several grades means opening several sets of curriculum documents.
- Teachers ask where else a standard is taught for reteaching — and the answer is spread across modules.
- Vertical conversations need a quick way to see how a concept is organized from grade to grade.
- References gathered for one meeting are hard to keep organized for the next.
How TEKS Navigator helps
Support for collaborative, TEKS-focused planning
Collaborative planning
Bring the standard and its documented lessons to the PLC so the team can focus on the mathematics.
Grade-level and TEKS navigation
Filter by grade and move between standards quickly when you support several teams.
Intervention planning support
Locate every documented reference to a standard so teachers can choose lessons to revisit. You make the instructional call.
Curriculum comparison
See how Bluebonnet Learning, Amplify Desmos Math, Eureka Math, ORIGO, STEMscopes, and IXL each organize the same standard.
Saved resources
Keep references for each team or cycle in collections with notes.
Ready for meetings
Export to CSV or print a collection for your agenda.
Example workflow
Preparing a Grade 3 PLC on multiplication
- 1
Choose the focus TEKS
The team’s next unit centers on 3.4K.
- 2
Pull the references
Search 3.4K: three Bluebonnet modules and four STEMscopes scopes reference it.
- 3
Build the collection
Save the lessons you want to examine together into a “Grade 3 PLC” collection.
- 4
Facilitate
Print the collection and use the TEKS wording to guide a discussion of what students must do.
Coaching resources
Spend less time searching. More time planning.
Discover a simpler way to navigate Texas math standards and curriculum references.