Active Learning Blueprint™ | Teacher Coaching & Lesson Planning Framework

IF YOU ARE A COACH, TEACHER LEADER, MENTOR, OR TEACHER EDUCATOR SUPPORTING NEW TEACHERS—THIS IS FOR YOU!!!
 
 
Active Learning Blueprint™ Lesson Planning FrameworkA Practical Coaching & Planning System for New, Pre-Service & Transition Teachers
Stop helping teachers simply complete lesson plans. Start helping them understand the instructional thinking behind the plan.
Are you an instructional coach, teacher leader, mentor, or teacher educator who spends valuable time helping new teachers figure out what to teach, how to teach it, and how to know whether students are learning?
The Active Learning Blueprint™ Lesson Planning Framework provides a repeatable process you can use during coaching sessions, lesson-planning meetings, teacher induction, professional learning, and pre-service teacher preparation.
THE PROBLEM
Your teachers may have a lesson plan—but do they know how to build one?
New, pre-service, and transition teachers often struggle to move beyond simply completing a required lesson-plan template.
They may ask:
What is the most important learning students need to understand?
How do I unpack the standard into a meaningful learning objective?
What should students actually do during the lesson?
How do I plan for different learners?
How will I check whether students understand?
What evidence will show that learning occurred?
What should I change when the lesson doesn't go as planned?
For coaches and teacher leaders, this can mean repeatedly reteaching the lesson-planning process instead of developing teacher independence.
THE SOLUTION
Give teachers a planning process—not just another lesson-plan template.
The Active Learning Blueprint™ guides teachers through five intentional stages:
PREPARE → PLAN → TEACH → ASSESS → REFLECT
Each phase helps teachers develop the instructional thinking necessary to create purposeful, student-centered lessons.
Instead of asking teachers:
“Did you complete your lesson plan?”
the framework encourages them to ask:
“Does my plan intentionally move students toward the learning?”
WHAT TEACHERS LEARN TO DO
Through the Active Learning Blueprint™, teachers learn how to:
✔ Unpack standards and identify the learning priority
✔ Write measurable, student-centered objectives
✔ Design purposeful student learning tasks
✔ Plan for engagement and differentiation
✔ Align instruction with checks for understanding
✔ Use assessment evidence to determine student learning
✔ Reflect on instructional decisions
✔ Make adjustments for future lessons
✔ Develop a repeatable planning process they can use independently
WHAT COACHES & TEACHER LEADERS CAN USE IT FOR
The Active Learning Blueprint™ can become a common planning language across your teacher-support work.
Use it for:
✔ Individual coaching sessions
✔ Collaborative lesson-planning meetings
✔ New-teacher mentoring
✔ Teacher induction programs
✔ Pre-service teacher preparation
✔ Transition-teacher support
✔ Professional learning workshops
✔ Coaching cycles
✔ Lesson-plan conferences
✔ Teacher reflection and follow-up
THE 5-PHASE FRAMEWORK1. PREPARE
Help teachers identify what they need to know before planning begins.
2. PLAN
Guide teachers in connecting standards, objectives, learning tasks, differentiation, and assessment.
3. TEACH
Help teachers move from the written plan to intentional classroom instruction and active student learning.
4. ASSESS
Use checks for understanding and assessment evidence to determine whether students are progressing toward the learning goal.
5. REFLECT
Help teachers examine what worked, what needs adjustment, and what they will do differently in the next lesson.
WHY COACHES WILL VALUE THIS RESOURCE
The Active Learning Blueprint™ helps you shift coaching conversations from:
“Let's fix your lesson plan.”
to:
“Let's strengthen your instructional thinking.”
It gives you a structured, repeatable framework that can be used across multiple teachers, lessons, and coaching cycles.
THE RESULT?
Teachers are not just producing lesson plans.
They are developing the ability to:
PLAN WITH PURPOSE → TEACH WITH INTENTION → ASSESS FOR LEARNING → REFLECT FOR IMPROVEMENT
IDEAL FOR
Instructional Coaches • Teacher Leaders • New Teacher Mentors • Pre-Service Teacher Educators • EPI Programs • Teacher Induction Programs • Transition Teacher Programs
HELP YOUR TEACHERS MOVE FROM:
Lesson-Plan Completion
↓
Instructional Thinking
↓
Intentional Planning
↓
Active Student Learning
↓
Reflective Practice
YOUR COACHING TOOLKIT FOR MORE PURPOSEFUL LESSON PLANNING
The Active Learning Blueprint™ is designed to help coaches and teacher leaders provide consistent, practical support without starting from scratch with every teacher.
Build teacher confidence.
Plan with purpose.
Strengthen student learning.
Created by Gollar Steed
Mindful Teaching Educational Consulting Services
Creator of the Active Learning Blueprint™
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