Professional Services
Achieve Your Performance Goals and Professional Growth
HMH Professional Services helps schools and districts achieve measurable gains with a person-to-person approach to professional learning centered on student outcomes. With coaching, courses, consulting, and collaboration, we help you identify your goals and create an explicit pathway to achieving them. Together, we’ll build a sustainable culture of professional growth and student learning in your school or district.
Introducing…Blended Professional Learning
From online courses to job-embedded coaching, HMH® offers flexible scheduling to align to your busy schedule. We work with you to meet your needs when and where you choose.
Our team will work directly with you to make a scalable plan and take action. You can count on support that’s ongoing, strategic, and measurable to create clear pathways for school- and district-wide transformation.
We deliver coaching specifically aligned to your learning targets. Customized resources make it intuitive for teachers and leaders to collaborate and make gains according to collective or individual goals.
People make all the difference. Our certified coaches and consultants have dedicated their careers to developing and delivering best-in-class professional support.
You’ll work with coaches who’ve trained extensively with the same professional learning strategies that we share with you. They’ve worked with mentors and as mentors, in and out of the classroom, to ensure best practices that drive results.
The Right People Make All the Difference
Our unparalleled range of expertise stems from experience: we are former and current teachers, coaches, administrators, district leaders, curriculum specialists, subject area experts, ed tech leaders, and more—ready to integrate and work alongside your teams. We bring together influential thinkers and researchers, including leaders from HMH, the International Center for Leadership in Education® (ICLE), and Math Solutions®, to act as extensions of your team—with your needs driving every engagement.
Founded by Dr. Bill Daggett, ICLE develops and delivers best practices for leadership and instruction at scale.
Founded by Marilyn Burns, Math Solutions focuses exclusively on the teaching and learning of math to transform instruction in your school.
HMH technical experts help optimize student outcomes with customized support for entire districts and individual classrooms.
Work with Experts Who Inspire
We’re all coaching toward the same outcome: empowering teachers to facilitate high-quality instruction to elevate student learning. Meet some of the leaders who are working to make this vision a reality.
Consulting
From academic performance to diverse populations, access to technology, knowledge gaps, and more, the factors that influence success are all interconnected. The only way to elevate a school or district as a whole is to design and implement the solution systemically. Whether you know your district’s unique challenges or need help identifying them, we equip you with insight and resources tailored to your specific goals.
Only HMH consultants will meet with you in person to conduct a needs assessment, perform a proprietary inventory of instructional practices, collect baseline data, and deliver a customized plan. Then we work alongside you to ensure results.
On an ongoing basis, we collaborate and strategize plans for continued growth, guide you through best practices, and help you measure gains along the way to ensure sustained performance.
Courses
Professional courses are available both in person and online to help teachers and administrators at all levels of experience build new skills quickly and effectively.
Teachers and leaders can take courses to reinforce a skill or refresh best practices. Program-specific courses ensure fidelity of implementation, and there are courses to help educators at all levels of experience navigate assessments, analyze data, use reporting tools, and apply digital tools to maximize instructional time.
Getting Started courses give teachers the know-how to maximize every instructional program. There are also follow-up courses to ensure smooth, sustainable implementation success.
Getting started and follow-up courses make the most of every instructional program and resource.
Strengthen teaching practice with courses to develop and sharpen skills and build content area knowledge.
Courses for school administrators enhance leadership skills and share effective school management practices.
Coaching
What do successful athletes, Oscar-winning actors, and the heads of Fortune 500® companies have in common? They all have coaches helping them stay on top of their game. A strong coach can offer new perspective on how to hone your craft for optimal gains.
Professional coaches from HMH, ICLE, and Math Solutions are available onsite and online to help you meet your growth and achievement goals.
Onsite and online, our coaches support and enhance teaching strategies with lesson modeling, planning resources and instruction to use and analyze data, classroom management, program implementation, support for special student populations including English learners, and more. Leaders also benefit from coaching services to facilitate strategic planning and resource management and to strengthen key leadership skills.
Every engagement is unique. We work alongside teachers and leaders to ensure that you are immediately practicing new skills and strategies. One-on-one coaches are available in person and online to provide comprehensive support.
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Teachers and school leaders share videos and classroom artifacts, collaborate with coaches and peers, and engage in open, reflective dialogue with a focus on elevating student outcomes.
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No matter where you are, you can join the online studio to exchange ideas via professional conferences, social feeds, publications, and more.
We combine data, goal-setting, planning, implementation, and reflection to take your classroom, school, and district to optimal levels of achievement.
Collaboration
We facilitate collaboration among teachers and leaders with resources and opportunities to strengthen professional learning communities in person and online. Become part of an online community, attend an in-person event, or welcome one of our keynote speakers into your school or district to energize and empower learning among your staff.
Engage in ongoing peer-to-peer and educator-to-coach collaboration with tools for online sharing and reflection. Extend your professional network online—stay connected and share best practices.
Premier events such as the annual Model Schools Conference, Leadership Academy, and more provide opportunities to collaborate in person with colleagues, peers, and thought leaders; find inspiration in real success stories; and get hands-on experience with new strategies for teaching and learning.
Inspire your team to create stronger bonds, identify school improvement priorities, and develop an actionable plan.
Refine your plan from the Model Schools Conference with ICLE experts—ask questions, monitor progress, and receive personalized support to reach your goals.
We deliver proven results. Our partner districts report high educator satisfaction and, most importantly, elevated student outcomes. See their success stories in action below.
Graduation rate increased 24 percentage points in two years
9% increase in K–5 math achievement in one year
27% decrease in high school discipline referrals in one year
Seamless integration of technology district-wide
Successful implementation of 1:1 to maximize use of LMS
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