Make your school the place every student belongs.

Strategies that prioritize connection over compliance.

Practical. Impactful. Realistic.

Too many classroom management “solutions” offered to educators have short-term impact at best, are unrealistic, unsustainable, or reduce classrooms to compliance factories. The Catalyst Approach includes specific adult actions that solve everyday challenges, make a tangible impact, and fit realistically into educators’ already demanding roles.

The Catalyst Foundational Skills

The 12 Foundational Skills answer the 4 most common questions of classroom life, so we start there. Contextualizing helps adults focus their energy on specific skills to answer each question.

How do I shift students’ focus so they can access instruction?

5 Skills

How do I maintain high engagement and balance all the needs during instruction?

2 Skills

How do I prepare students to be successful when it’s time to work on their own?

3 Skills

How do I maintain a working environment where students stay productive?

2 Skills

Real Partnership

Students can only benefit from what gets implemented. So we support you the whole way. That means:

Training

Engaging and useful.

Implementation Support

Real problem-solving in your own space.

Catalyst Live

Experience the skills in real classrooms.

Leadership & Systems Development

Increase the scale of implementation.