k12pd.com

Structured literacy implementation, delivered at the classroom level.

Built by a classroom practitioner. 25 years across Minnesota and international schools.

Coach in Residence is
personalized structured literacy
at scale.

  • Minnesota
  • K-5
  • Read Act
  • 2026-27 launch

What we do

What K12PD does

Adopted frameworks succeed or fail at the classroom level. K12PD operates at the implementation layer, the daily translation of training and strategy into practice across every teacher and every lesson. Coach in Residence: Structured Literacy is the standalone product built on this methodology.

The methodology applies across framework domains. The current focus is the implementation of the Minnesota READ Act.

Adopted frameworks succeed or fail in classrooms

The methodology

The methodology is organized around four operating layers: an implementation cycle anchored to statutory documentation, a daily coaching layer at the moment of teaching, a structured Tier 2 problem-solving protocol, and a year-long engagement architecture designed to produce evidence rather than activity.

Plan ACTION PLAN CREATED Execute DAILY COACHING Update SCREENING WINDOW

The implementation cycle.

Structured action plans serve as the anchor of the K12PD methodology. For each student requiring more than universal Tier 1 instruction, the action plan becomes the planning artifact, the execution anchor, and the update mechanism. A single document that travels through the implementation cycle, used and revised at each stage. The Action Plan Coach guides teachers through a five-step protocol to build each plan: describe what's happening, identify the underlying problem, set a measurable goal, plan specific moves, and name the evidence that will demonstrate change.

The daily coaching layer.

Implementation falters most often after the training ends — in the moments when a teacher has to translate a strategy into a specific move with a specific student, without a coach in the room. The methodology places framework-specific AI coaching at exactly those moments. Not a replacement for teacher judgment, but a thinking partner grounded in the specific pedagogy of the framework being implemented.

Structured Tier 2 problem-solving.

Tier 2 intervention typically operates on the periphery of implementation systems, with paraprofessionals and interventionists working in parallel rather than connected to classroom planning. K12PD treats Tier 2 as part of the same cycle. Interventionists, paraprofessionals, reading specialists, and Title I teachers work through a parallel coaching tool built around a four-step problem-solving protocol. Context from each student's action plan is handed off from the classroom teacher and informs the Tier 2 work. Action plans produced through the protocol are reviewable by the Lead and iterable by the team.

Year-long engagement architecture.

Most professional development produces activity logs without producing evidence of implementation change. K12PD engagements are structured so that the work itself produces the evidence. The engagement runs as a series of touchpoints across the school year, paced around the district's own screening windows and PLC structure: implementation work between screenings, data validation at each window, and a year-end report that consolidates the year's work into evidence ready for the Local Literacy Plan. The shape of the engagement adapts to the district's calendar.

the engagement

What the partnership includes:

Structured Literacy Coach for all licensed K-5 educators

Classroom teachers, reading specialists, Title I, ML, and interventionists. Daily, just-in-time coaching grounded in your district's curriculum.

Paraprofessional Coach for Tier 2 support staff

Real-time coaching for paras working with students on phonics, fluency, and decoding. Scaffolded for the scope of paraprofessional practice.

Action Plan Coach for class-level and student-specific planning

Produces structured planning artifacts through a five-step protocol; supports formal PLP documentation when districts adopt it under the READ Act.

Scheduled implementation touchpoints

Paced around your district's screening windows and PLC structure

Year-end implementation report

Consolidated evidence ready for your Local Literacy Plan narrative.

Written procurement documentation

A two-page alignment document for your business office and auditor, mapping the product to READ Act requirements, IDA Knowledge and Practice Standards, and ESSA Tier 4 evidence-based PD.

A literacy coach in every classroom,
every day.

Current focus

Coach in Residence: Structured Literacy

Built for Minnesota K-5 districts implementing structured literacy under the READ Act. A year-long partnership for districts ready to move past curriculum adoption and into the daily work of implementation across every K-5 classroom and intervention setting — personalized structured literacy at scale. It helps teachers honor the curriculum’s sequence while adapting moves for each student.

Coach in Residence: Structured Literacy launches for the 2026-27 school year. The launch cohort is small and selectively built; founding-cohort terms apply.

Beyond Structured Literacy

Framework applications

K12PD’s methodology is built framework by framework. The current focus is on structured literacy, applied to the implementation of the Minnesota READ Act.  Framework applications for multilingual learners and gifted instruction have been in operation since 2025, deployed at the teacher level through TPAI, a graduate course platform founded by the same practitioner.

Coach in Residence for

Structured Literacy

Direct district partnership · launching 2026-27

The full standalone product for Minnesota districts implementing under the READ Act.

Coach in Residence for

Multilingual Learner Instruction

Deployed via TPAI courses

Grounded in WIDA standards and the practical realities of ML instruction in general education classrooms.

 

Coach in Residence for

Gifted Education

Anchors TPAI's GT Specialist Designation

Built around gifted pedagogy, extension design, and the instructional questions gifted educators work through.

Districts with an adopted framework and a real implementation problem can inquire about partnership conversations. New framework applications are built with the same depth that produced K12PD’s current work: framework-specific pedagogy, practitioner-built tools, calibrated coaching layers. Engagements are taken on selectively.

About

Darren Augustine

Founder, K12PD

K12PD is built by a practitioner. Twenty-five years in K-12 classrooms, including twelve years in international schools in Guatemala City and Istanbul, with specialist work in multilingual learner and gifted education. Based in Minnesota.

K12PD extends work that began with TPAI, a self-paced graduate course platform founded in 2018 and used by educators across all 50 states. Coach in Residence tools for multilingual learners and gifted instruction are embedded in select TPAI courses, where teachers use them as part of their graduate-credit work. K12PD applies the same methodology to classroom-level, district-facing implementation — the place where adopted frameworks actually take hold.

Academic Background

  • B.A. in English
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • M.Ed. in Elementary Education, K-6
  • University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
  • Graduate Certificate in Gifted Education
  • Hamline University

Contact

Start a launch-year conversation.

Minnesota K-5 literacy leads, curriculum directors, and district leaders can reach out about the 2026-27 launch year, district readiness conversations, or partnership fit. Districts in other states implementing structured literacy under analogous statutes can also reach out about partnership conversations.

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