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Continuous professional learning + coached planning apps
Turn Professional Learning Into Stronger Daily Practice
Learn, and keep learning, through online courses, thousands of practical resources and the coaching apps to create exceptionally strong, high-yield plans more quickly and efficiently.
Continuous LearningBuild and deepen expertise with courses and apps
Thousands of ResourcesTemplates, tools, and supports
Coaching AppsPurposeful guidance, not generic ai output
Teachers + LeadersOne shared high yield strategies implementation system
One connected Learning-Focused experience
What Is Spark?
Spark is the professional learning and instructional implementation platform from Learning-Focused. It brings learning, resources, coached application, collaboration, and leadership support together in one membership.
Thousands of Resources
Find Learning-Focused models, tools, templates, examples, videos, rubrics, and student supports when you need them.
See what membership includes →Spark Coaching Apps
Apply and deepen your learning through purposeful questions, proven processes, and high-yield instructional decisions.
See how Spark coaches →Teachers + Leaders
Give educators and instructional leaders one shared system for planning, coaching, implementation, and improvement.
Contact Us to Schedule a Spark Walkthrough →The Spark learning cycle
Professional Learning That Keeps Moving
01Learn It
Build and continually expand knowledge through courses and resources.
02Plan It
Work through real decisions with a framework-grounded coaching App.
03Use It
Put high-yield strategies and focused plans into daily practice.
04Share It
Collaborate through folders, resources, sharing, and Groups.
05Improve It
Revisit, revise, reflect, and strengthen the next version.
The primary Spark difference
More Than a Plan.
A Better Planning Process.
Spark Apps do not simply produce random ai generated lessons, units, assessments, or improvement plans. They coach educators and leaders through the thinking that makes the finished work strong.
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Purposeful questionsClarify the goal, context, evidence, and decisions that matter.
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Learning-Focused guidanceStay centered on proven frameworks and high-yield strategies.
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Exceptional results - fasterSave significant planning time without sacrificing quality or professional judgment.
Purpose-built support
Explore the Spark Apps
Each App supports a specific planning, instructional, or leadership process aligned to Learning-Focused frameworks and high-yield strategies.
Transform classroom observation evidence into actionable instructional insight, coaching conversations, and improvement plans.
SparkInsight
Instructional Leadership Assistant
Plan high-yield engagement strategies aligned to lesson goals, student actions, and teacher prompts.
SparkEngagement
Plan Engagement Strategies
Unpack standards into learning goals and rigorous Lesson Essential Questions.
SparkLEQ
Plan Lesson Essential Questions
Plan and review lessons aligned to standards, learning goals, and high-yield strategies.
SparkLessons
Plan and Review Lessons
Plan instruction and learning activities with higher-order thinking strategies embedded.
SparkHOT
Plan Higher-Order Thinking
Plan comprehension strategy instruction and content-area learning activities.
SparkComprehension
Plan Comprehension Strategies
Plan Previewing strategies for vocabulary, concepts, background knowledge, and upcoming learning.
SparkPreviewing
Plan Previewing Strategies
Plan scaffolding based on learning goals, readiness, complexity, and student needs.
SparkScaffolding
Plan Scaffolding Strategies
Plan and review cohesive units, Learning Maps, and Structured Review activities.
SparkUnits
Plan and Review Units
Plan and review assignments aligned to learning goals, standards, rigor, and high-yield instructional strategies.
SparkAssignments
Plan and Review Assignments
Plan Writing to Learn and Writing to Inform strategies, prompts, organizers, and lesson flow.
SparkWriting
Writing • Planning
Learning that accumulates
Your Best Thinking Should Keep Growing
Spark preserves the work created in the Apps so members can return to it, continue the conversation, organize resources, collaborate with colleagues, and improve plans over time.
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Searchable Work HistoryReopen and continue synced Spark App work.
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Plan BookmarksIsolate the outputs that matter most.
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Workspace + FoldersOrganize completed plans and resources.
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Version HistoryPreserve and revisit meaningful revisions.
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Sharing + GroupsSupport collaborative learning and planning.
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Print, Save + EmailPut selected work where it is needed.
Teachers and leaders learning together
A Coaching Partner for Instructional Leadership
The SparkInsight app helps leaders interpret observation evidence, prepare productive coaching conversations, and organize focused improvement while teachers use the same high yield strategies focus and practices in their planning.
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Interpret Observation EvidenceMove from collected evidence to meaningful instructional insight.
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Understand Instructional ImpactConnect teacher and student evidence to the practices that matter.
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Prepare Coaching ConversationsOrganize focused, productive, growth-oriented conversations.
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Plan Focused ImprovementIdentify action steps and build coherent schoolwide improvement plans.
Choose your Spark path
The Benefits of Spark for Teachers and School Leaders
For educators
Plan with confidence
- Learn through courses and just-in-time resources
- Get guided support without surrendering professional judgment
- Create focused plans around proven high-yield practices
- Save, revise, organize, and share the work
For schools and organizations
Make professional learning stick
- Give teams a shared instructional language
- Support a school, leadership team, cohort, or initiative
- Connect professional learning with daily implementation
- Strengthen observation, coaching, and focused improvement
An added Learning-Focused advantage
One Year of Spark Membership Is Included with Almost Any Book or Course Purchase
Eligible purchases open the complete Spark experience: coaching Apps, professional learning courses, thousands of resources, Workspace, and member pricing on additional courses.
For course purchases, the included year applies when the customer is not already a Spark member. Confirm current eligibility before publishing.
Common questions
Frequently Asked Questions
What is included in Spark Membership?
Membership combines online professional learning, thousands of Learning-Focused resources, Spark Coaching Apps, saved Work History, Workspace organization, collaboration tools, and leadership support.
How do Spark Apps coach users?
Each App uses purposeful questions and a Learning-Focused process to help educators and leaders clarify goals, apply high-yield strategies, make strong professional decisions, and create actionable work more efficiently.
Are Spark Apps generic AI plan generators?
No. Spark Apps are grounded in Learning-Focused frameworks, practices, and high-yield strategies. They guide the planning process while keeping educators and leaders actively involved in the decisions.
Can members save, revisit, and share their work?
Yes. Members can return to synced App conversations in Work History, bookmark important outputs, organize plans and resources in Workspace, preserve revisions, and collaborate through sharing and Groups.
What does Spark provide instructional leaders?
SparkInsight supports evidence analysis, coaching conversations, action planning, implementation continuums, instructional snapshots, and focused school improvement.
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Learn More, Choose Membership, or Start a School Conversation
Explore the complete Spark experience on the Spark website, or talk with Learning-Focused about supporting a school, team, cohort, or instructional initiative.
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