The GUIDE Cycle gives school leaders a clear, repeatable process for supporting and coaching every teacher in their building. It is anchored in student evidence, completely separate from evaluation, and designed to build the kind of professional culture teachers choose not to leave.

The GUIDE Cycle is not a program for struggling teachers. It is a coaching culture for every teacher in your building.

Imagine teachers looking forward to conversations about teaching and their students with administrators and not dreading it.

Teacher turnover is one of the most expensive, least discussed challenges in American education.

Most conversations about the teacher shortage focus on recruitment — how to find more
teachers and attract them to the profession. But the data from the Learning Policy Institute tells a different story: the majority of open teaching positions each year are not created by a shortage of new teachers. They are created by teachers leaving roles they already held.

The GUIDE Cycle in Your School

School leaders learn exactly what is needed to support every teacher on their staff.

Principals & APs, Curriculum Directors, Instructional Coaches, Department Heads, Team Leads, New Teacher Mentors

Works for every grade level, every subject including the arts, PE, music, and other non-academic areas where teachers often feel left out of conversations. This process is designed for public and independent schools.

The full-day, hands-on, experience-based training includes a complete, ready-to-use implementation toolkit with:

-> Comprehensive training guide
-> Coaching language guide
-> Tools for navigating challenging situations
-> Student evidence templates
-> Year-long pacing guides
-> Scheduling and roster tools
-> Self-reflection protocols

All materials are yours to keep, reproduce, and adapt. No annual licensing fees.

Your Coach and Trainer:
Joshua Cabral

I’ve spent thirty years in the classroom across elementary, middle, and high school — teaching students, leading departments, mentoring teachers, and doing the daily work that is vital in education. My perspective is simple: I show up to school every morning. I teach, mentor, and collaborate with colleagues throughout day. I did not develop the GUIDE Cycle from a distance. I build it from inside the work, and I continue to refine it from that same place.

Alongside my teaching, I’ve spent fifteen years collaborating and consulting with school leaders in over 120 schools and districts nationwide, presented at more than 130 state, regional, and national conferences, and studied instructional leadership, mentoring and coaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. My work rests on one conviction: when school leaders have a consistent, evidence-based process for supporting teachers, professional culture changes — and when culture changes, teachers stay in the classroom, students learn and grow, and the work becomes something all teachers and administrators value for the long haul.