The AIMS Way Plan is a three-year strategic instructional framework centered on quarterly Cycles of Inquiry, rigorous standards-based instruction, and GLAD adoption, with a big emphasis on professional learning communities and instructional coaching. The petition notes that the prior instructional coach position was vacated and not quickly replaced, contributing to CAASPP declines, and that AIMS now intends to restaff coaching, implement a CSTP-aligned evaluation system in 2026–27, and deepen Teach Like a Champion and BeGLAD training. They also reference working with an external data consultant for quarterly analysis but do not name any broader PD partner. This sets up a need for sustained professional development, coaching capacity-building, and tools to support PLCs, cycles of inquiry, and classroom walkthroughs. Vendors that deliver schoolwide PD in literacy and math aligned to CAASPP, coaching programs, virtual coaching, or turnkey PLC/cycle-of-inquiry facilitation could be considered. Because the plan spans 2026–27 and beyond and explicitly calls out the loss of coaching as a root cause, leadership is likely receptive to proposals that can quickly rebuild and scale instructional support.

They already contract with an unnamed external data consultant; there may be openness to additional ...