At the Center for Excellence we use our 30 years of experience as a leading innovating school , to help schools, districts, and educational networks turn ambitious strategic plans into daily instructional practice that students can actually experience.
Our work focuses on high-impact, practical strategies that help educators strengthen instruction, increase student engagement, deepen learning, and build greater student ownership. Rather than introducing another initiative, we partner with schools to operationalize the priorities already in place—connecting district frameworks, learner and graduate profiles, instructional models, and improvement goals to what happens every day in classrooms.
Through customized professional learning, instructional coaching, leadership development, classroom observation, and long-term partnerships, we help educators build the capacity to move learning from Surface → Deep → Transfer while intentionally developing the dispositions students need to become increasingly independent learners.
Our professional learning is designed to be modeled, practiced, and immediately usable. Participants experience the same routines and protocols they can bring directly into classrooms, PLCs, and leadership teams.
Explore our professional development and partnership options below and discover how the Center for Excellence can support your school, district, or network.
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Center for Excellence supports schools in translating U.S.-based curriculum standards into engaging, rigorous, and relevant learning experiences. Our instructional frameworks help educators move from curriculum to classroom practice, strengthening teacher capacity, student agency, and meaningful learning outcomes.
We use our 30 years of experience of academic impact in education that focuses on interweaving rigorous academic work, 21st century skills and real world applications to prepare students for today and the future from early childhood to 12th grade.
The Center for Excellence provides cutting edge professional development, training, and support for TK-12th grade educators, schools, and districts looking to transform their practices. Housed at New Technology High School, in Napa, CA, the Center for Excellence has worked with K-12 educators, schools, districts, and organizations throughout California, in over 25 states, and on 5 continents. New Technology High School is the flagship school of New Tech Network and for the last 21 years has been a global leader in project-based learning, student-centered culture, and developing deeper learning skills to prepare students.
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Recently, we had the opportunity to highlight one of our elementary school partners. This group of students are reflecting on an activity they completed based on their critical thinking. One of the strategies we use to enhance and ensure all students are doing the heavy cognitive lifting in the class.
Tier 2 Is Not More of the Same: Building Targeted Support That Moves Students Forward Like many school systems across the world, we have a
As a new school year kicks off (or continues for many of our partners across the world), school and district leaders are faced with a
Across the country, school and district leaders are grappling with the same fundamental question: How do we create classrooms where students aren’t just compliant, but
Educational systems across the world are striving to answer a critical question: How do we move instruction beyond simply “covering content” and ensure every student
