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Coaching, intervention, supervision, and accountability, built into one system that actually shifts practice in classrooms.

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Over 25 years leading and advising leaders, schools, and systems.
School turnaround & systems design
PreK CLASS® Instructional Support
Coaching & supervision systems
Leadership development
Nicole Bryan
About

Meet Nicole Bryan

Founder, Growth MindED Consulting  ·  Creator of the Instructional Support Accelerator

I started in 2000, teaching bilingual immersion in a DC public school. Twenty six years later I have been the coach, the principal, the person supervising principals, and the network vice president.

That path is why I work the way I do. I have been the person receiving the consultant's recommendations, and I have been the person writing them. I know how it feels to be handed a beautiful plan in June that no one can run by October.

I have learned that ideas are rarely the problem, and neither is vision. What breaks down is everything after the decision: a meeting nobody owns, a form nobody fills out, a conversation a leader keeps postponing. I am good at finding the exact place where it slips.

My goal is not simply to solve an immediate problem. It is to help leaders and organizations build the capacity to sustain improvement over time.

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Consulting & School Turnaround

How I help schools build systems that keep running after I leave.

Engagements run from a focused diagnostic to a full turnaround partnership. Every one is built so your team can run the system without me.

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School Turnaround

Partnering with leaders in underperforming schools to stabilize, prioritize, and build the instructional and operational systems that move outcomes and stay in place after the engagement ends.

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Instructional Support Systems

Turning CLASS® and observation data into a working system: what coaches do, what teachers practice, and how leaders follow up, so interaction quality actually changes.

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Coaching & Supervision Design

Building the coaching cycles, walkthrough routines, and supervision structures that make feedback transfer into consistent classroom practice.

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Leadership Development

Building the skill of principals, site directors, and instructional leaders to run these systems themselves, with the tools and the weekly routines that keep them going.

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The Growth MindED Library

Tools for Schools

Coaching meeting structures, walkthrough forms, role rubrics, planning templates, and full PD systems. Built across 25 years of leading and advising schools, and formatted so your team can pick them up and run them.

Free tools · Forms and protocols from $29 · Sets and toolkits from $79 · Leadership systems from $299 · Full ISA PD strands from $2,750
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Our Flagship System
Instructional Support Accelerator (ISA)

Turn your CLASS® data into real classroom change.

CLASS® tells you the score. ISA teaches you how to change it.

CLASS® and GOLD® do something essential: they measure the quality of teacher-child interactions and show you where to grow. ISA picks up from there, building the everyday teacher, coach, and leader moves that turn those insights into visible growth in children's language, thinking, and understanding.

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Professional Development

Clear definitions, examples, and teacher practice built around what high-quality instructional episodes actually look like.

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Walkthroughs

Focused teacher and child transcript evidence, looking for exchanges that stay on one idea, run four or more contingent exchanges, and produce growth.

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Coaching

Evidence-based coaching cycles with real practice, so teachers don't just hear feedback, they try a different move.

Every ISA strand comes in English and Spanish. Not a Spanish summary. The full PD script, the full coaching guide, the full walkthrough tool, the full planner, reviewed by a native Spanish speaking educator. If your program serves Spanish speaking staff and families, this is the part you usually have to build yourself.
Watch one episode: Conceptual Language

Sixty seconds of Conceptual Language, one of the nine ISA indicators. The adult names a precise word, balance, and gives the meaning in the same breath: balance means we are going to get it high up. From there she stays on the child's idea across several exchanges while the child hears the word, uses it, and then applies it to the tower. Precise word, child-friendly meaning, and a child who is more precise by the end. That is a Conceptual Language episode, and it is the unit ISA trains, week by week.

Language Growth › Thinking Growth › Understanding Growth
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What Leaders and Teachers Say

From the people who ran the six week pilot.

An assistant principal and Pre-K teachers, in their own words, after running a six week ISA strand.

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As a person who has CLASS certification training, I still wasn't as clear as I am now.
Assistant Principal · ISA Pilot
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It has sparked something that wasn't there. Teachers are going to each other asking, is this an episode? Let's examine it together.
Assistant Principal · ISA Pilot
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Now I understand why the scores are like this.
Assistant Principal · ISA Pilot
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CLASS PD with a purpose.
Pre-K Teacher · ISA Pilot
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The PD sessions really break CLASS down and help teachers effectively practice those skills.
Pre-K Teacher · ISA Pilot
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The value of the PDs is in learning how to achieve desired outcomes during lessons and in instructional moments with scholars, particularly around concept development.
Pre-K Teacher · ISA Pilot
Quotes shared with permission. School names withheld.

Let's build the system your school needs.

Whether it's a turnaround, an instructional support system, or a conversation about ISA, start here.

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