Updating Pulse…

For District and Charter Network Leaders

Connect Your Curriculum to the Coaching Teachers Receive.

Instructional Pulse brings curriculum look-fors, classroom evidence, teacher coaching, and student results into one place—so leaders can focus support where it’s needed and follow through across every school.

See how your curriculum and coaching routines come together in Pulse.

Current Imagine School District Home with four live answers and one distinct unfinished walkthrough

Screens show our demo district, Imagine School District.

A Shared View of Instructional Priorities

District & Network Leaders · every school

Coaches · every teacher on their caseload

Principals & APs · every team

Evidence from Your Classrooms

Four Questions to Focus Your Next Leadership Meeting

Review curriculum, teaching, learning, and goal progress together to decide where your leaders should focus next.

01 · Curriculum

Is Our Curriculum Being Taught Well?

See evidence of curriculum-specific practices across classrooms—and where you need a closer look.

02 · Teaching

Are Teachers Improving Their Practice?

Follow coaching priorities, action steps, and evidence of progress over time.

03 · Students

Are Students Learning What We’re Teaching?

Review common assessment results alongside classroom evidence to identify where learning needs attention.

04 · Goals

Are We on Track to Meet Our Instructional Goals?

Track progress toward school goals and focus this week’s leadership conversations.

How it works

See it. Coach it. Move it.

Connect what leaders see in classrooms to focused coaching and the next check on progress.

See it

One walk through the room. Two kinds of evidence.

  • Look-fors that follow the unit. Pick the course and this week's look-fors appear. Monitor curriculum implementation alongside instruction to improve both what teachers are teaching and how they are teaching it.

  • Your rubric, not ours. Ratings, yes/no checks, evidence notes and timed on-task counts. Create custom rubrics and forms.

  • Curriculum Studio. Paste a list, use a grid, copy a course, or draft look-fors with AI from your own documents. Then, monitor implementation.

  • Built for a phone. Every answer saves as you go.

Current Observe screen for 5th Grade Mathematics, with curriculum look-fors and the notes column
Siegfried Engelmann’s current My Teachers list with Needs Me First sorting, pace tracks and Last Seen dates

Coach it

Keep Coaching Focused. Follow Through on the Next Visit.

  • Caseloads built on a Playbook. Each teacher works on a focused skill from your coaching Playbook, with action steps you can revisit and refine.

  • An action step library. Start from bite-sized steps, then reword them for the teacher to make it personal.

  • See It, Name It, Do It meetings. Support the observation and feedback routines used by leaders trained in Relay and Leverage Leadership, with forms you can adapt to your district or network.

  • Auto-scheduling. Pulse imports your academic calendar, bell schedule, and SIS master schedule to tell you which teacher is available when. Coaches then build their weekly observation, prep, and meeting cadence and Pulse sends the calendar invites.

Move it

Goals measured from evidence, not self-report.

  • Set a goal. Track it. From X to Y by when, rolled up automatically so teams stay accountable for real teacher growth.

  • Supervisor monitoring. Goal pace, walkthrough frequency and coach quality across your schools.

  • Results next to practice. Review class-level assessment results beside walkthrough evidence. Check whether changes in instruction are showing up in student learning.

  • AI Insights. Ask a question in plain English and get trends and coaching priorities.

Curie Elementary’s Strong Start goal with current progress, weekly readings and its Teacher Heatmap tab

An Illustrative Coaching Cycle

From the Unit to the Next Classroom Visit

For example, a unit asks students to support an interpretation with evidence from the text.

  1. Observe

    During a walkthrough, the leader notices that the teacher is supplying the reasoning students should be doing.

  2. Coach

    The coach and teacher choose a focused action step and rehearse a prompt that asks students to explain their evidence.

  3. Follow Up

    On the next visit, the leader looks for the agreed practice and records what students and the teacher do.

  4. Review

    The team considers classroom evidence alongside common assessment results to decide what to continue or adjust.

Illustrative example, not a reported customer outcome.

Trust

Safe to bring to your district.

Non-evaluative by design. Pulse runs beside your evaluation system, not instead of it.

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Google sign-in only.

Sign in with your district Google account. No separate Pulse password.

Walled off by district.

Each district's data is separated at the database level.

AI is opt-in.

Your data is never used to train AI models.

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Chris Bostock, founder of Instructional Pulse

Built by a principal supervisor

"Pulse is the system I wanted when I supervised principals: one place to see what's happening in classrooms and what to do about it this week."

Chris Bostock · 20 years in schools, from the classroom to the superintendent's office. Meet the founder

Your Curriculum. Your Coaching Routines. Hands-On Setup.

We help you bring your rubric, curriculum look-fors, coaching Playbook, and first school goals into Pulse, so your leaders can start with the routines your team already uses.

See Your Instructional Leadership Routines in Pulse.

In 30 minutes, explore a walkthrough, a coaching cycle, and a school goal with your schools in mind. Bring a rubric or curriculum unit if you have one—no prep required.