Solutions & Services
The Southport CoLAB empowers educators to improve student outcomes through evidence-based solutions and services designed to support all learners.
Learning Science for Real Classrooms
Too often, the science of learning remains confined to journals, specialized settings, or theory. The Southport CoLAB closes that gap by translating research into evidence-based solutions and services educators can use across diverse educational settings.
Too often, the science of learning remains confined to journals, specialized settings, or theory. The Southport CoLAB closes that gap by translating research into evidence-based solutions and services educators can use across diverse educational settings.
Grounded in learning science and the daily work of The Southport School, we take what works in real classrooms and help educators, schools, and systems apply it in meaningful, sustainable ways. Our solutions and services help teams build shared language, align around evidence-informed practice, and strengthen implementation across classrooms and systems.
Tested in Real Classrooms
Our solutions and services begin with research and are tested, refined, and strengthened through daily practice at The Southport School. This continuous cycle of implementation, observation, and refinement helps ensure that what we share is rigorous, practical, and responsive to the realities of teaching.
Focused on executive function and literacy, our solutions and services include:
- Professional Learning Training and coaching rooted in research and real classroom experience.
- Instructional Frameworks Scalable, research-informed models that support evidence-based teaching and learning across diverse classrooms.
- Implementation Support Classroom-ready resources and practical guidance grounded in implementation science that bridge research and real-world application.
Executive Function
The Executive Function Blueprint is a metacognitive approach that equips educators with practical, research-informed strategies and classroom-ready tools to explicitly teach and reinforce executive function skills for all learners.
The Executive Function Blueprint is a metacognitive approach that equips educators with practical, research-informed strategies and classroom-ready tools to explicitly teach and reinforce executive function skills for all learners.
Flexible solutions and services fit within existing professional learning schedules and align with the CASEL Framework and Danielson Framework for Teaching. By embedding executive function skills into everyday instruction, educators can strengthen academic performance and prepare students for greater independence in school and life.
Literacy
The Southport CoLAB’s Orton-Gillingham Academy-accredited training equips educators to master a curriculum-agnostic, diagnostic, and prescriptive approach that begins with Tier 1 instruction and builds expertise through Tier 3.
A Complete Pathway to Certification
Our continuum of Orton-Gillingham training extends from foundational classroom literacy instruction through clinical specialization in dyslexia and complex learner profiles. Each course pairs evidence-based structured literacy content with supervised practicum mentorship from an accredited Orton-Gillingham Fellow, helping educators move confidently from coursework to certification.