Teaching for Today
What nobody
gave you
At some point in your career, someone handed you a strategy and told you it was research-based. Maybe it was close reading. Maybe it was something about vocabulary tiers, or fluency, or what workshop model you were supposed to be running.
You probably implemented it. You might have pushed back on it. Either way, you did it without the research in your hands because nobody gave you the research. By the time the research reached you, it had usually passed through several layers of translation: from study to summary, from summary to professional development, from professional development to classroom expectation. Somewhere in that process, the reasoning underneath the strategy often disappeared.
That's how most of us learned to teach. Not through the research itself, but through someone else's translation of it, and then someone else's translation of that translation, until the original findings were so far upstream they were invisible.
The problem with that isn't that the strategies are always wrong. Some of them are right. The problem is that without the reasoning underneath, you can't evaluate anything. You can't decide what applies to your students, your texts, your classroom. You just accumulate. Another initiative. Another mandate. Another framework to fold in. Everything feels piled on because there's no foundation underneath it.
Teaching for Today is the foundation.
The structure
Three connected parts.
One coherent teaching system.
Teaching for Today is built to give you the thinking, the materials, and the support systems that make experienced teaching feel more grounded and more doable.
01
The Monthly Provocation
One focused teaching question each month, traced back to the research. You get the audio walkthroughs, research territory, design questions, and application paths that help you slow down around one idea long enough to use it.
02
The Curriculum Library
Classroom-ready resources built around analytical arcs, including vocabulary work, leveled texts, film connections, writing progressions, teacher notes, and unit materials that work together instead of piling on.
03
The AI Workshop + Trellis
Practical support for the hidden labor of teaching: planning, feedback, differentiation, rubric design, student information, and the systems work schools rarely make time for. Trellis gives that support a place to live.
Together, these three parts give you the foundation, the resources, and the working system to make thoughtful teaching feel less scattered.
A sample from inside the membership
Every month begins with one provocation: a focused teaching question that gives us something specific to investigate together. Instead of trying to absorb every new strategy at once, we spend the month tracing one idea back to the research, looking at what it actually says, and asking what it changes about classroom design.
Here are two examples of what that kind of investigation can look like:
Anchor Charts
Common practice
Post the chart. Keep it up all unit. Reference it. Tell students to use it.
What the research found →
Written Feedback
Common practice
Write detailed comments. Explain what worked and what didn't. Hand it back.
What the research found →
$29 / month
What this is
A monthly membership built around one premise: experienced English teachers deserve to understand why, not just what.
Each month has a focus. One thing the field has gotten tangled up about, and we go back to the actual research together. You won't get my summary of the research or a guru's digestion of it. You'll get a map of who the key researchers are and what they originally found, enough to go down the rabbit hole yourself if you want to.
Then we look at the design questions that research raises for curriculum. Then three application paths depending on where you are and what you're working on.
You get enough to decide for yourself what applies to your room.
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Monthly research territory + design questions
Workshop frameworks + classroom tools
The AI Workshop
A practical look at how AI can support the parts of teaching the system rarely supports.
The AI Workshop is organized around the invisible work teachers carry all the time: sorting feedback patterns, designing rubrics, adapting materials, planning differentiation, building discussion structures, organizing student information, and turning a pile of needs into a usable next step.
This is also where Trellis lives. Trellis is the practical tool layer of the membership: teacher-facing planners, generators, dashboards, and workflows that help you organize the work, make better instructional decisions, and stop rebuilding every support from scratch.
The goal is to make the hidden labor of teaching more visible and more manageable. AI becomes useful when it helps you organize what you already know, build from your professional judgment, and move from scattered information to clearer instructional decisions.
The Curriculum
The units I've been building over years, with everything serving the same analytical arc.
You get everything you need to teach a unit, plus some: the vocabulary work, the leveled texts, the film connections, and the writing progression. The pieces are built to work together, so you’re not cobbling together disconnected extras and hoping they support the same analytical arc.
Everything’s included, with new resources added consistently.
Leveled texts, morphology, film bridges, writing progression
Who this is for
If you've been teaching English for three or more years and professional development has started to feel like it's designed for a teacher you stopped being a long time ago, this is probably for you.
If you've read something about reading instruction and found yourself wondering when someone is going to translate any of this for secondary specifically, this is for you.
If you want to think honestly about AI, past the hype and past the panic, this is for you.
If you're a first-year teacher looking for a complete curriculum to follow, or you want quick fixes, this probably isn't the right fit, and I'd rather say that clearly.
This is for me →How I got here
I've been teaching high school English for almost two decades. I'm currently at a public high school, teaching English 10 Honors and team-teaching an English 10 class with multilingual learners. I'm still in a classroom, and everything I build comes out of that experience.
The membership exists because I kept running into the same problem: the resources available to me either treated my students like they couldn't handle real thinking, or treated me like I'd never thought about teaching before. So I started building my own materials, and over time the materials cohered into something with a logic to how the pieces fit together. The membership is where that logic lives: the research foundation, the curriculum that comes out of it, and the AI thinking woven through both.
$29 / month
New members also receive the Values Compass course, a full AI context-setting course, as a join bonus.
Join for $29 / month →Choose a pricing option
- Preferred option
Subscription (ongoing) ($29.00/mnth)$29.00/mo - Preferred optionSubscription ($75.00/3 mnths)$75.00/qtr
- Preferred optionAnnual payment ($249.00)$249.00/yr
