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 provides specific strategies adults use to solve everyday challenges, make a tangible impact, and fit realistically into educators’ already demanding roles.
Co-founders Nancy Burns and Jacki Brickman developed The Catalyst Approach by supporting over 50,000 educators in a variety of school spaces to disrupt frustration, confusion, and inequities. Through ongoing, real-life problem solving, our team helps Catalyst educators prioritize their energy to make the biggest impact.
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?
How do I maintain high engagement and balance all the needs during instruction?
How do I prepare students to be successful when it’s time to work on their own?
How do I maintain a working environment where students stay productive?
Real Partnership
Students can only benefit from what gets implemented. So we support you the whole way. Working with us includes:
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.