Not professional development. Instructional reconstruction.
A relational, standards-aligned coaching system for new and experienced teachers — in any subject — built to strengthen how you plan, teach, connect with students, and use data, one week at a time.
Most coaching gives you a slide deck, a checklist, and good luck.
Generic sessions that ignore your actual gaps
Drive-by feedback with no follow-through
Observed and scored — but never actually coached
No support for the emotional weight of teaching
I don't drop tips. I don't do drive-by feedback. I don't hand you another framework and disappear.
I assess. I diagnose. I coach.
We rebuild how you understand your content, how you deliver it, how you respond to students in real time, and how you manage your classroom without losing yourself. The struggle isn't only instructional — it's mental overload, emotional exhaustion, a nervous system stuck in survival mode. So we address all of it, in real, structured, measurable ways. Not fluff. Not self-care tips.
Every subject, the same four moves.
Break every standard down into clear, teachable learning targets before a single lesson gets planned.
Internalize the standard well enough to predict how students will respond — then plan on purpose so every one of them has a way in.
Internalize the concept, model it, let students do the thinking, then name what was learned in precise language.
Review student work weekly and shift the next lesson based on what it actually shows.
Three coaching pathways, matched to where you are.
Placement comes from a diagnostic, not your years in the classroom. Reassessed every 2–3 weeks — your pathway can extend or shorten as you progress.
For new teachers, or anyone needing support with content, delivery, and classroom culture.
Strong content knowledge, but execution or student engagement isn't matching the effort yet.
Already effective — ready for precision, consistency, and a Highly Effective evaluation.
Every coaching relationship includes six things.
Content readiness, instructional observation, planning review, and data-use reflection before anything is prescribed.
A living, co-constructed plan with weekly focus moves and a relationship or culture move.
Planning sessions, student-evidence reviews, and rehearsal of real classroom moves.
A private space with your digital workbook and shared feedback that stays with you.
Guided support for nervous-system regulation, boundaries with students, and the emotional load of teaching. Spiritual/faith support offered as opt-in.
A consistent cycle: observe, identify one shift, practice it, re-observe.
Straightforward, pay-as-you-coach pricing.
$45 an hour — about $67.50 for a standard 1.5-hour weekly coaching block (a live session plus a short student-evidence review). Your exact pathway and total are confirmed after your diagnostic.
What changes when this works.
- Clear, accurate, confident instruction
- Calm, regulated confidence instead of constant tension
- Boundaries that protect your time and energy, even with students
- Stronger teacher–student relationships and classroom trust
- Effective classroom management without losing authenticity
- Strategic, comfortable use of data
- Readiness for Effective / Highly Effective evaluations
- Increased engagement and participation
- Willingness to take intellectual risks
- Greater independence and ownership of their own learning
- Reduced learning gaps
- Stronger reasoning and problem-solving
"Ms. McCardell lives and breathes data-based instruction. She is an incredible resource to her math team. She leads with conviction and has generated math team enthusiasm for embracing research-based math pedagogy and content knowledge. She coordinates meaningful professional development and models highly effective math lessons. She has excellent relationships with students and families, and the elementary school stakeholders trust her to lead quality math instruction. The Simon family is profoundly lucky to have such an empowering instructional leader."
— Whitney Bartell, Abram Simon Elementary School
This is coaching for the whole teacher, not just the lesson plan.
Instructional growth doesn't happen in a vacuum. Alongside the academic work, we address the parts of teaching no one covers in a staff meeting.
Trade the tight, nervous feeling for the ease and joy of confidently delivering instruction — because how your body feels shapes how you teach.
Set real boundaries — even with students — so you're not drained, pulled on, or walked up to all day long.
Hold real expectations for your students instead of doing the work for them, so support builds capability — not learned helplessness.
For teachers who want it, spiritual and faith-integrated support is also available — always opt-in, always treated with the same structure and follow-through as the instruction.
Questions before you start.
You'll complete a short diagnostic — a look at your content readiness, a brief instructional observation or simulation, and a review of a recent lesson plan. That's what determines your coaching pathway, not your years of experience.
By the diagnostic, not by title or tenure. A new teacher can land in Refinement and a veteran teacher can land in Foundational — placement follows what the data shows.
A standard coaching block is about 1.5 hours a week — one live coaching/planning session plus a short student-evidence review — reassessed every 2–3 weeks.
No. This program strengthens instructional practice for teachers of any subject already in the classroom. Destiny Chasers also offers a separate Praxis Math Coaching System for teachers preparing to pass the Praxis math licensure exam.
No — it's offered as an opt-in layer alongside the instructional coaching, never a substitute for it.
Ready to stop surviving your classroom and start thriving in it?
Book a free 15-minute discovery call, or take the diagnostic, to find the pathway that fits.
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