At Marzano Academies, we provide schools and districts with comprehensive support to implement and sustain personalized, competency-based education. Our services include professional learning courses with digital badging, leadership and teacher office hours, instructional coaching, workshop facilitation, and CBE-aligned tools and resources. Every offering is grounded in the research-based Marzano Academies framework and designed to drive measurable improvements in teaching, learning, and school culture.
We can guide your journey to the realization of your unique vision of a school that develops agency and ensures achievement in all learners.
Products and Services
Lab School Development – Embedded Support for Systems Change
Our proven Lab School model embeds a dedicated Marzano Academies Faculty Member directly into your school, guiding leaders and teachers through every step of the system’s change process. Staff across the district are welcome to join and gain hands-on experience, join live leadership and PLC meetings via Zoom, and receive consistent support and answers in real time. With 24/7 access to streamlined, 45-minute virtual courses, your entire team can build capacity anytime, anywhere. Unlike traditional professional development (PD) that fades after the training day, our approach ensures sustained, high-impact implementation through performance scales and action plans tailored to your unique context. Whether you’re launching one lab school or scaling across multiple sites, Marzano Academies offers the tools, expertise, and ongoing partnership to create high-reliability schools where every learner thrives.
CBE Instruction Courses
Provide contact hours to teachers as they develop knowledge, understanding, and skills in the primary domains of a CBE classroom: Feedback, Content, Context, and Self-regulation. Each course has lecture videos by Marzano Academies faculty, reading from the book, supplemental articles, artifacts, and assignments. Each course is designed to be completed in 15 hours. Textbook included. Contact hours can be provided.
The courses can be purchased directly through our Bookstore
Instructional Badging System
Develop and identify expertise in the educators of a school using the Marzano Academy’s badging system. This unique system is designed to introduce educators to the Elements of the Instructional Model and provide support in applying the concepts and skills. The educator can be credentialed at the single-element level, badged at the Design Area, or earn full certification in the only instructional model specifically built for personalized, competency-based education.
The credential can be purchased through our Bookstore
Teacher Support Office Hour Bundles
Marzano Academies faculty will collaborate with teacher PLCs to provide tailored insight and actionable feedback aligned with your school’s unique vision for personalized, competency-based education. These sessions may include reviewing and refining proficiency scales, assessments, and instructional plans; supporting the alignment of curricular resources with your scales; and guiding teachers in collecting evidence of student learning and determining status scores that can be meaningfully translated into report card grades. Our goal is to ensure that your programs and practices are coherent, aligned, and driving measurable progress toward student mastery.
Leadership Office Hours Bundles
Marzano Academies faculty holds virtual office hours tailored for school leaders who are committed to moving their schools from their current reality to their unique vision. Sessions are sold in bundles to meet the site’s particular needs. In these sessions, we will coach you to align your programs and practices with your guiding principles, develop practical, tactical tools that build capacity and drive execution, overcome implementation challenges with clear, strategic action, strengthen your leadership systems and decision-making.
Implementation Tracker Development and Maintenance Office House
An exclusive service that includes the development and ongoing maintenance of the Implementation Tracker to ensure that the programs and practices chosen by the site, aligned with the performance scales, are effectively implemented. This work supports the development of staff and student capacity necessary to successfully fulfill the mission of transitioning to the site’s unique vision of personalized, competency-based education.
Instructional Supports and Teacher Development in the Marzano Academies Instructional Model Office Hours
An exclusive service that includes the development and maintenance of scales, assessments, and other instructional resources, including alignment of current resources to proficiency scales, development of item frames, cumulative review, cognitive & metacognitive skills, and knowledge maps.
Onsite / Virtual Professional Development
Onsite Professional Development with Marzano Academies offers schools a powerful opportunity to build internal capacity around the key components of the Marzano Academies Instructional Model and the 16 School-Level Indicators. Our expert facilitators work shoulder-to-shoulder with educators and leadership teams to deepen understanding, refine instructional practices, and align systems with a high-reliability, competency-based vision. Whether your site is just beginning the journey or aiming to sustain high levels of performance, our customized sessions provide the practical tools, strategies, and collaborative learning experiences needed to turn vision into action and ensure lasting impact for all learners.
Two-Day Teacher Workshop
This is for districts with multiple schools or professional support organizations working with multiple districts. Marzano Academies Faculty will deliver this immersive two-day workshop at your site. It is designed to help educators gain the essential skills and confidence to implement Competency-Based Education in their classroom. Created for forward-thinking teachers and leaders alike, this workshop empowers them to become CBE leaders at their school and district. Whether they are completely new to CBE or looking to sharpen their approach, they will leave with practical strategies to engage students in purposeful, targeted learning.
Site Audit / Certification Visits
Marzano Academy Site Certification is a collaborative process designed to help schools engage in continuous improvement toward becoming high-reliability organizations that foster learner agency. Through surveys, focus groups, artifact reviews, and classroom visits, schools receive targeted feedback on how well they are meeting the 16 School-Level Indicators. The process identifies effective strategies, areas for refinement, and practices to discontinue—empowering each site to align with its unique CBE vision. Led by Marzano Academies Implementation Specialists, this process supports schools in moving toward applying and sustaining levels of performance of the Marzano Academies system of education.
Standardized Test Analysis
Analyze standardized test data through a CBE lens to identify priority standards, align with proficiency scales, and inform instructional planning. Includes actionable reports, trend analysis, and optional facilitation to support implementation.
Teacher Observation Video Protocol
Support teacher development through video-based observations aligned with key CBE strategies. Teachers submit classroom footage and artifacts demonstrating the use of proficiency scales, item frames, guided discourse, and cumulative review. Includes feedback and self-reflection tools to promote instructional growth.
