For schools and districts ready to invest in lasting change. Every Custom Partnership starts with a needs assessment — a collaborative process that helps us identify your school's goals, strengths, and key areas for growth. From there, we design a professional development plan tailored to your community, delivered on whatever schedule works best for you: spread across the school year, delivered as a consecutive multi-day institute (often in summer), or a mix of both.
How a Partnership Works
Needs Assessment — we start by listening. A collaborative conversation with your team surfaces your goals, current strengths, and the areas where support will make the biggest difference.
Staff Developer Match — you're paired with a Staff Developer who specializes in your grade band (K–2, 3–5, and/or 6–8) and has direct experience with the priorities you've named.
Ongoing Collaboration — the partnership evolves with your school. Staff Developers check in, adjust the plan based on what's working, and help your team reflect on progress along the way.
Professional Development
Hands-on, collaborative, and matched to your grade bands.
Staff Developers work side-by-side with teachers in labsite classrooms — modeling lessons, supporting small-group instruction, and helping teachers analyze student work. Sessions may also include grade-level study groups or full-day workshops on topics like assessment, vocabulary, text-based writing, decodable texts, phonics, and differentiation. Schools are matched with a Staff Developer who specializes in their grade band, and most schools find a minimum of five days per grade band provides the most lasting impact — though there's no minimum requirement to get started.
Format | On-site or virtual |
Time | Multiple days, scheduled your way |
Cost | Starts at $3,200/day |
Best for | Schools building sustained capacity across a full year |
Being around so many people who understand the units, how they flow, and how to use them, has helped me hone my craft and helped me do a better job of helping my kids grow as readers and writers.
Flexible By Design
Not every school's PD calendar looks the same, and Custom Partnership is built to flex around that. Some schools spread their days across the school year, checking in regularly as new units roll out. Others prefer a consecutive multi-day block — often over the summer — to get a running start before the year begins. Many schools do both: a summer intensive to build a shared foundation, followed by periodic days during the year to sustain momentum. We'll help you figure out which pattern fits your school best.
What's Included
Access to the Mossflower Learning Community, with invitations to Leadership Conferences
Opportunities to pilot pre-publication curricula
Membership to the Mossflower Treasure Chest, an ever-growing library of teaching resources
Schools receiving 5+ PD days get a 20% discount on all RWP-M events
FAQs
Do you offer virtual literacy professional development options?
Yes! Contact us at brendan@mossflower.com to explore virtual PD.
Do we need to be using the Units of Study curriculum to partner with you?
Do you offer professional development for an entire school or district?
Does this professional development incorporate the latest Science of Reading and Science of Learning research?
Can schools that are part of the NYC DOE work with The Reading & Writing Project?
We're looking to build literacy leadership capacity from within. How can you support this?
Is there a minimum amount of PD days our school or district needs to contract?