Support Coaches Who Support Educators
The Coach Membership is designed for those leaders, teacher and instructional coaches who guide teachers to apply best practices, build subject matter expertise, and achieve high fidelity to maximize outcomes with The Creative Curriculum and GOLD.
- Join a five-week program to rapidly elevate coaching practices.
- Work with a dedicated coaching mentor.
- Receive all benefits of the Teacher Membership including over 400 hours of content.
- Engage with a professional learning community of educators and experts.
Measure and improve fidelity.
Equip coaches with the tools and support they need to measure fidelity and effectively guide teachers.
Apply in-the-moment guidance.
Effectively individualize coaching with positive guidance, clear strategies, and observation tools.
Build relationships and garner insights.
Leverage the power of a dedicated mentor and engagement in a world-class professional learning community.
Scale your coaching practice.
Research shows that sustained, individualized coaching improves instruction and learning.
Ready, Set, Coach!
Join a 5-week program dedicated to rapidly providing coaches with the training they need to support teachers in achieving fidelity of implementation and elevating their early childhood education instructional practices.
Coach Mentorship
Advance your coaching practice with a personal mentor, private virtual coaching sessions, interactive small-group coaching sessions*, and weekly live discussions.
Coaching to Fidelity App
Equip coaches with the tools and guidance they need to measure fidelity and effectively guide teachers towards optimal implementation of The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos, The Creative Curriculum for Preschool, or GOLD and best practices, including the ability to capture photo and video observations, embedded guidance and mitigation strategies, shareable action plans, and note-taking capabilities.
Professional Learning Community
Engage, connect, and share experiences with other early childhood educators through mentor-moderated discussion forums; exclusive community groups, including a “Coaches Corner”; and the open sharing of ideas. Plus, gain insights into teacher needs and challenges.
On-Demand eLearning Courses
Enjoy a comprehensive professional development system with unlimited access to a large catalog of flexible, modular, and asynchronous courses in English and Spanish; over 400 hours of research-based content; all training required by CCDF annually and for the CDA credential; the ability to earn continuing education units (CEUs) and state training hours; personalized learning journeys; real-time progress tracking with a professional development dashboard; and certificates and badges.
Live Classes
Gain unlimited access to register for scheduled, live, and virtual professional development sessions on a variety of popular topics.
I have to admit this coaching thing is AWESOME.
Aileena Acoff, Teacher, Early Childhood
Detroit Public Schools Community District
More Reasons to Love
the Coach Membership
Track Teacher Progress and Growth
Coaches can report on teachers’ progress, monitor action plans, personalized learning journeys, certificates, and badges in real time.
Coach for Success
At Teaching Strategies, we believe that early childhood classrooms are most successful when they implement curriculum and assessment with fidelity. Coaching helped Detroit make big gains for little learners.
Set Teachers Up for Success
Programs that provide 30–100 hours of professional development over 6–12 months see the most significant impact on child outcomes. When teachers are supported over time by a coach, their confidence increases, and their classrooms show it.
All CDA Training
Includes all the courses necessary to satisfy the 120 hours of training required to earn the Professional Recognition’s Child Development Associate (CDA) credential.
Meet Annual CCDF Requirements
Includes all courses needed to meet CCDF requirements for programs to complete training in 11 topics each year.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
and State Training Hours
Guide teachers to earn continuing education units (CEUs) and state training hours in the areas you believe they need most.
Course Previews
Preview our on-demand eLearning courses that are packed with research-based content, interactive games and engaging videos and created in a flexible, modular format.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Professional Development Coach Membership (PDCM) is a Teaching Strategies professional development program built for instructional leaders and coaches who guide teachers toward high-fidelity implementation of The Creative Curriculum and GOLD. It combines a five-week rapid-onboarding program, a dedicated coaching mentor, a fidelity-tracking app, and a professional learning community, on top of everything included in the Teacher Membership.
The Teacher Membership gives individual teachers on-demand access to eLearning courses, live classes, and progress tracking. The Coach Membership includes everything in the Teacher Membership plus coach-specific tools: a dedicated coaching mentor, the Coaching to Fidelity app, a five-week onboarding program, and the ability to track and report on other teachers’ progress. The Coach Membership is built for people who support and guide teachers, not just for individual teacher use.
The Coaching to Fidelity app gives coaches tools to measure fidelity and guide teachers toward best-practice implementation, including photo and video observation capture, embedded guidance and mitigation strategies, shareable action plans, and note-taking.
The Coach Membership includes Ready, Set, Coach!, a five-week onboarding program designed to strengthen coaching practices. Members also receive ongoing support through a dedicated coaching mentor, virtual coaching sessions, and a professional learning community.
Yes. The Coach Membership includes all courses necessary to satisfy the 120 hours of training required for the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential, along with additional professional learning resources to support ongoing educator growth.
Yes. The Coach Membership includes all courses needed to meet Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) requirements, which call for programs to complete training in 11 topics each year.
The Coach Membership is designed for instructional leaders, teacher coaches, and program administrators who guide and support teachers — not for individual classroom teachers working independently. Teachers looking for their own professional development should use the Teacher Membership instead.
Yes. The Coach Membership is grounded in research-based professional development and practice-based coaching approaches designed to help educators strengthen instructional practices, improve curriculum implementation, and support positive outcomes for children.
Yes. Coaches can guide teachers to earn continuing education units (CEUs) and state training hours through the membership’s course catalog, focused on the areas each teacher needs most.
Both. The Coach Membership includes unlimited access to on-demand eLearning courses as well as scheduled live, virtual professional development sessions on a range of topics.
A Champion for Every Teacher
In every classroom is a teacher who is impacting the lives of children. Make an impact on them with the support of a coach who is an expert in early childhood education.
*Includes up to 3 hours of private coaching per year.
