A human-centered model for schools ready to move beyond one-time trainings and create lasting, meaningful change.
EDUCATION RESOURCE GROUP
Transform your teaching through Follow Me Forward.
Through Follow Me Forward™, ERG helps schools rethink professional development with a practical model rooted in values, beliefs, and Collaborative Learning Loops — a practical, job-embedded approach to professional learning where teachers grow beside teachers, apply new ideas in real classrooms, and transform over time.
A human-centered model for schools ready to move beyond one-time training and create lasting, meaningful change.
EDUCATION RESOURCE GROUP | GROWING ALL LEARNERS
Transform your teaching through Follow Me Forward.
A practical model for professional learning that works.
INTRODUCING THE Follow Me Forward™ MODEL
Follow Me Forward™ gives educators and school leaders a clear structure for moving beyond one-time professional development. Rooted in values, beliefs, and Collaborative Learning Loops, the model helps schools create the conditions for professional learning to become collaborative, classroom-centered, and sustainable.
Follow Me Forward™ gives educators and school leaders a clear structure for moving beyond one-time professional development.
Rooted in values, beliefs, and Collaborative Learning Loops, the model helps schools create the conditions for professional learning to become collaborative, classroom-centered, and sustainable.
Dr. Amy Nail
"The Follow Me Forward model offers a way to break the cycle of significant investments in PD only to see limited, sporadic, short-term gains."
Dr. Kim Morrison
"For schools ready to move beyond theory, this is your roadmap."
Dr. Jill Hall-Freeman
"This is not just a book about professional development.
It is a model for transforming how educators learn, grow, and lead together."
"For schools ready to move beyond theory, this is your roadmap."
"This is not just a book about professional development.
It is a model for transforming how educators learn, grow, and lead together."
"The Follow Me Forward model offers a way to break the cycle of significant investments in PD only to see limited, sporadic, short-term gains."
Educators and leaders are recognizing Follow Me Forward™ as more than a book about professional learning — it is a practical framework for moving from fragmented professional development to a more collaborative, job-embedded system that supports real classroom change.
What Educators are Saying:
- Begins with values and beliefs that shape meaningful learning
- Builds capacity through host teachers and shared instructional goals
- Supports practice, reflection, and real classroom application
- Creates a loop of continued growth instead of a one-time PD event
At the heart of Follow Me Forward™ is a five-phase cycle of Collaborative Learning Loops.
This structure helps schools move professional learning out of isolated sessions and into daily practice, where teachers can learn, apply, reflect, and refine together.
At the heart of Follow Me Forward™ is a five-phase cycle of Collaborative Learning Loops. This structure helps schools move professional learning out of isolated sessions and into daily practice, where teachers can learn, apply, reflect, and refine together.
Rather than ending after a workshop, the process continues through shared goals, host teacher support, classroom-based learning, reflection, and reset — creating a repeatable model for lasting change.
A structure for moving from compliance to collaboration.
A structure for moving from compliance to collaboration.
The Follow Me Forward™ framework
The Follow Me Forward™ framework
Engaging sessions that introduce the Follow Me Forward™ model and help teams rethink professional learning.
Educational Keynotes
Support that takes place in the classroom with teachers and students through a continuous cycle of feedback that grows all learners.
Job-Embedded Coaching
School Partnerships
Ongoing support for schools ready to build meaningful professional learning systems that last beyond a single session.
ERG helps schools create the conditions for professional learning to move beyond a single session. With structure, support, and collaboration, teachers can apply new ideas in real classrooms and build practices that continue to grow over time.
Support that moves
professional learning
into practice.
Professional learning connected to trusted collaborator relationships, supported by ERG’s implementation expertise.
Collaborative Relations
Support for leaders building the clarity, collaboration, and systems needed for schoolwide implementation.
Consulting Sessions
Implementation Support
Flexible support designed around your school’s goals, context, and professional learning needs.
ERG helps schools create the conditions for professional learning to move beyond a single session. With structure, support, and collaboration, teachers can apply new ideas in real classrooms and build practices that continue to grow over time.
Support that moves
professional learning
into practice.
Implement Follow
Me Forward™ in your school or district.
BRING THE MODEL TO LIFE
BRING THE MODEL TO LIFE
The book introduces the model. ERG helps schools bring it into practice.
Through job-embedded support, coaching, consulting, keynotes, and custom implementation partnerships, ERG works alongside schools to help professional learning move beyond theory and into daily classroom practice.
This is where the model becomes real —
through teachers learning beside teachers, supported by a process designed for lasting change.
Implement Follow
Me Forward™ in your school or district.
The book introduces the model. ERG helps schools bring it into practice.
Through job-embedded support, coaching, consulting, keynotes, and custom implementation partnerships, ERG works alongside schools to help professional learning move beyond theory and into daily classroom practice.
A strong majority of school leaders report wanting to continue the work after their initial ERG experience.
93% Desire to Continue Services
Students demonstrate increased academic performance when their teacher is involved in ERG professional development.
>10% Increased Student Achievement
Teachers involved in ERG projects demonstrate measurable growth in instructional skill, confidence, and enthusiasm.
55% Improved Teacher Skills
When professional learning is supported over time, schools see growth.
This is what happens when professional learning is practical, collaborative, and rooted in the real needs of educators.
Dacia Quate, Curriculum Facilitator
"The ERG coaching model takes teachers from where they are to where they want to be. ERG coaching is exactly what we needed for beginning teachers to veterans!"
"The ERG coaching model takes teachers from where they are to where they want to be. ERG coaching is exactly what we needed for beginning teachers to veterans!"
Stephy Salazar, Teacher
"I’ve never met more flexible consultants who feel like true partners in learning!"
"I’ve never met more flexible consultants who feel like true partners in learning!"
Shaunne Hall, Principal
"We can truly see the growth not only in classroom practices but in teacher mindset... We could not have shown the growth without ERG's commitment."
"We can truly see the growth not only in classroom practices but in teacher mindset... We could not have shown the growth without ERG's commitment."
Schools partner with ERG because they want more than inspiration — they want support that leads to meaningful change.
What this work feels like in practice.
support that leads to meaningful change
Transforming schools into spaces of curiosity, authenticity, and collaborative growth.
Create Learning Sanctuaries
Teams build shared language, shared goals, and stronger collaboration.
Alignment of Instructional Practice
Teachers gain confidence as they are supported, practice and refine their work.
Build Teacher Efficacy
Build structures that support transformation through collaboration, reflection, and implementation.
No Band-Aids - Real Change with Follow Me Forward.
Qualified educators and instructional leaders can become licensed to facilitate the Follow Me Forward™ model with support from ERG’s training, tools, resources, and facilitator community.
This pathway is designed for educators who want to help schools move from compliance-driven PD to Professional Learning That Works — guided by values, beliefs, and Collaborative Learning Loops.
Qualified educators and instructional leaders can become licensed to facilitate the Follow Me Forward™ model with support from ERG’s training, tools, resources, and facilitator community.
Become a Licensed Follow Me Forward™ Facilitator
Become a Licensed Follow Me Forward™ Facilitator
FOR EDUCATORS READY TO LEAD THIS WORK
For educators ready to lead this work forward
ERG’s work comes from years of experience in classrooms and partnerships with schools. Hope Reagan, Alice Oakley, and the ERG team understand that meaningful professional learning is not something handed down from a distance.
It happens beside educators, inside real classrooms, with support that honors the human side of change and the practical realities of school life.
Built by educators. Refined beside educators.
Resources for educators ready to rethink professional learning.
Start with tools that help make professional learning more practical, visible, and actionable.
Explore free tools and guides designed to support classroom practice, reflection, and implementation. These resources are a starting point for educators and leaders who want to move from ideas into action.
Resources for those ready to rethink professional learning.
START WITH PRACTICAL TOOLS
Explore free tools and guides designed to support classroom practice, reflection, and implementation. These resources are a starting point for educators and leaders who want to move from ideas into action.
