Teachers Confidence
Small Group Coaching

A clearer next move when classroom behavior gets hard.

Build more consistent adult responses in your classroom—and shared practice across schools and districts. When one student shuts down, another refuses, and the rest of the class still needs you, find a next move you can use.

Ask About the January Group

StartsJanuary 14, 2027

FormatLive online coaching

Registration$395

Regulation Before Education

For the teacher in the room

You know plenty of strategies. Choosing one under pressure is the hard part.

Maybe the same transition keeps unraveling. A student puts their head down as soon as work begins. An adult response that helped yesterday adds pressure today. You leave wondering what you missed—and what to do tomorrow.

This group gives teachers a place to examine those moments with support, think through the conditions around behavior, and build more confidence in their next decision.

For general and special education teachers supporting students with a range of learning and regulation needs, including students with and without IEPs.

What we will work on

Real situations. A shared lens.
Practical next steps.

INSPECT helps us examine the adult, environmental, instructional, and team conditions shaping the moment.

Read the moment earlier

Look at what happens before shutdown, refusal, disruption, or escalation. Identify the task, transition, environment, and adult response that deserve a closer look.

Choose a practical next response

Use INSPECT to consider what you can adjust: your own urgency, the environment, structure, task access, engagement, consistency, and time.

Bring the learning back to your classroom

Work through a real classroom situation, choose a manageable next step, and reflect on what you notice as you apply it with your team.

How the coaching works

Bring the moment you keep getting stuck in.

Use the group to connect the framework to the reality of your classroom: the students, routines, demands, and supports already in place.

Describe what is happening.
Start with what you can observe, what happened beforehand, and how adults responded.
Examine it together.
Consider which conditions may be adding pressure and what could make participation more accessible.
Choose one manageable adjustment.
Identify a next step that fits your role and aligns with the student’s existing supports and your school team.

30+

years in education

Your coach

Dr. David A. Palmer

Dr. David brings experience as a classroom teacher, special education specialist, administrator, and coach. He is also a neurodivergent adult and a parent of neurodivergent children.

His work helps adults understand big emotional behavior and respond with greater clarity, care, and consistency. INSPECT brings that work into classrooms and school teams.

Learn more about Dr. David

Your next step