Brain-Aligned Curriculum Coaching

🧠 Brain-Aligned Curriculum Coaching

Transform lesson design using cognitive science, emotional regulation, and student motivation.

🚫 Traditional Curriculum Design Isn’t Working

Too often, curriculum planning still centers around content coverage and compliance-based pacing guides—ignoring the neuroscience of how students learn, regulate, and stay motivated.

In today’s classrooms, attention is fragmented, purpose is unclear, and engagement is shallow. It’s not that students can’t learn—it’s that we’re not designing for the conditions in which learning thrives.

That’s where we come in.

🔁 What Is Brain-Aligned Curriculum Coaching?

We help educators reimagine unit and lesson design using the R.E.A.L. Framework and MAPS Motivation Model, aligning planning practices with:

How the brain processes and retains new information
How emotions shape focus, curiosity, and behavior
How motivation and identity fuel engagement and learning
How routines restore attention in a tech-saturated age

🧭 Our Coaching Focus

Whether you’re working with a team of teachers, a curriculum committee, or instructional coaches, we offer collaborative coaching cycles around:

🧩 Unit and Lesson Planning That Aligns With:

R.E.A.L. Phases

Regulate: Start with routines, mindfulness, and readiness
Engage: Hook with relevance, identity, and curiosity
Apply: Scaffold rigor with feedback and visible progress
Loop: Close with reflection, retrieval, and celebration

MAPS Motivation Science

Meaning: Make lessons matter to students’ lives and goals
Anticipation: Build curiosity through wonder, choice, and challenge
Progress: Break learning into micro-wins that build confidence
Social Reward: Use peer connection, recognition, and belonging as fuel

🧠 Cognitive Coaching Areas:

Cognitive Load Reduction & Attention-Friendly Design
Planning for Executive Function and Memory
Designing Lessons That Reduce Overwhelm and Boost Transfer
Retrieval, Reflection, and Feedback Loop Planning
Emotion + Identity Anchoring in Academic Tasks

📦 What Coaching Includes

✅ Collaborative planning cycles with feedback and modeling
✅ Brain-aligned lesson templates, tools, and exemplars
✅ Planning audits with recommendations for redesign
✅ Department- or grade-team workshops
✅ Real-time modeling or co-teaching support (virtual or in-person)

🚀 Outcomes for Your Team

More focused, confident, and inspired teachers
Curriculum that reflects student identity, attention needs, and cognitive capacity
A common language across teams for lesson planning and reflection
Higher student attention, ownership, and depth of thinking

🛠 Who This Is For

Instructional coaches building shared curriculum practices
Teacher teams designing for deeper engagement
School and network leaders aligning PD with brain-based learning
Curriculum writers and academic deans leading redesign

Let’s Transform Curriculum From the Inside Out

This isn’t just better planning—it’s designing learning for the minds and hearts of today’s students.

📩 Ready to bring brain-aligned curriculum to your classrooms?
[Book a Coaching Call] | [Download Planning Tools] | [See Sample Lessons]