About Our Team
Our team is composed of 24 facilitators/coaches, all of whom are experienced former educators and school leaders. 71% of our coaches identify as people of color.
Service Overview
Jounce provides coaching to instructional leaders (district/network academic leadership and school-based academic leaders such as principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches) on an ongoing basis, usually with weekly touchpoints; Jounce also provided direct coaching to teachers, usually with multiple touchpoints each week that include real-time coaching, lesson modeling, and coaching meetings to rehearse, intellectually prepare, and review data. This coaching is grounded in deepening knowledge about how students learn to read, write, and understand math, and applying that knowledge to understand the intent behind curriculum designer’s choices and the moves necessary to bridge the curriculum to the individual learners.
Building District Capacity
At Jounce, we train leaders and educators to use concrete protocols and structures for module and lesson internalization, execution practice, in-class execution of curriculum, and both out-of-class and real-time coaching. By grounding all training in a set of consistent structures, we ensure partner schools, networks, and districts can continue to improve in their implementation beyond our work together.
Addressing Equity
Our team engages in ongoing training regarding the legacy of inequities in our education system and the continued role of implicit bias, systemic racism, and ableism in the experiences of students and educators. We ground the practices on which we train teachers and leaders in rationale so that we all understand how these practices should improve learning and experience for all learners, including BIPOC students, students who identify as LGBTQ+, linguistically diverse students, and students with learning differences. When we review learning outcomes with our partners, we review subgroup outcomes to ensure our impact is equitable across lines of difference.
