NorthLight STEM
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STEM consulting & professional learning

Better STEM teaching, built with your teachers.

NorthLight STEM Consulting does STEM consulting and professional learning for schools and districts: curriculum design, program improvement, teacher workshops, and coaching.

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01 · Services

What we do

Five offerings in two lanes: STEM consulting and professional learning. Every engagement fits the scope and scale of your project.

Curriculum design & alignment

Consulting

Single units to full-year maps: inquiry-driven science curriculum, backwards-designed from assessments and aligned to your state standards, with a scope and sequence, vertical alignment, and materials teachers actually teach.

DeliversUnit plansPacing guidesAssessments & rubricsAlignment mapsOpenSciEd support

Professional development workshops

Professional learning

Hands-on PD (half-day, full-day, or series) on inquiry science, phenomenon-driven lessons, assessment design, and productive science talk. Teachers leave with lessons half-built.

DeliversWorkshop sessionsTeacher resource setsFollow-up materialsVirtual or in-person

Instructional coaching

Professional learning

Ongoing 1:1 or team cycles: co-planning, honest observation feedback, model teaching. Virtual year-round; in person during breaks and summer.

DeliversCoaching cyclesCo-planned lessonsObservation & feedbackProgress checkpointsPLTW program coaching

Program review & improvement

Consulting

Standards-alignment review of your materials, classroom visits, and teacher input, distilled into a prioritized improvement roadmap your leadership can act on.

DeliversAlignment auditClassroom visitsStakeholder findingsImprovement roadmapInnovation Pathways design

Science writing & content review

Consulting

Plain-language science writing and expert review for curriculum publishers, edtech teams, nonprofits, and grants. Research-grade accuracy with a teacher's instinct for what learners understand.

DeliversExpert content reviewPlain-language writingAccuracy & standards checks

02 · How we work

Simple by design

Lean process, clear next steps, from first conversation to finished deliverables.

Teachers working together around a table, reviewing notes on paper and a laptop

How an engagement runs

  1. Start the conversation

    Book a free 30-minute call, or use the project brief builder: two minutes, no commitment.

  2. Confirm fit, get a proposal

    A written proposal follows: scope, deliverables, timeline, one fixed price.

  3. Do the work, keep momentum

    Workshops, design sprints, or coaching cycles with clear checkpoints and follow-through, so gains stick after we wrap.

Where & when

Virtual, year-round

Coaching, design check-ins, content review, and full remote workshops.

Every month of the year

In person, school vacations & summer

On-site workshops, kickoffs, and classroom visits when school is out.

Winter, February & April breaks · Summer

Blended engagements pair virtual momentum with targeted in-person visits: the best of both formats.

03 · About

Led by Drew Giese, MPH

Portrait of Drew Giese, founder of NorthLight STEM Consulting

Drew Giese is a STEM Instructional Coach who has taught a variety of science courses, including AP. He is also his school's Innovation Pathways Coordinator and AP Coordinator, and serves on the MyCAP leadership team. That experience shapes one belief: great teaching is a craft, and schools can build it on purpose.

The classroom lens sits on a lab-trained foundation: published molecular biology research, science writing for the ABC News Medical Bureau, an MPH from UMass Amherst (2003), and the full pre-clinical biomedical curriculum and all clinical rotations at UMass Medical School.

Every engagement comes with two strengths: a thought partner who asks the sharp questions and stress-tests the plan, and a planning and logistics lead who handles pacing, materials, schedules, and follow-through, so every workshop and sprint runs clean.

No canned programs, no vague praise. Just concrete, usable professional learning: lessons teachers trust, workshops they remember, programs built to last. When he's not doing all things STEM, he's managing the beautiful chaos of a nine-pet household.

Program expertise, via consulting or professional learning:

OpenSciEd

Phenomenon-driven science units designed for the NGSS, used in classrooms nationwide.

Consulting onImplementation planningUnit-launch coachingAuthentic adaptationsAccommodations and modifications

PLTW

Project Lead The Way's hands-on STEM pathways, from Launch through high school engineering.

Consulting onProgram planningTeacher coachingPathway expansion

Innovation Pathways

Massachusetts's applied-learning pathways linking high schools with employer partners.

Consulting onPathway designPartner planningState criteria reviewMyCAP portfolios

04 · Book a call

Start with a 30-minute conversation

Talk through your goals, get a read on fit, and leave with next steps. No brief required.

Choose a time that works for you.

Calendly shows current availability and confirms the meeting immediately. The conversation is free, focused, and requires no project brief.

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05 · Request a quote

Build your project brief

Four steps, two minutes. You'll get a clean project brief with tailored recommendations to copy, download, or email in.

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06 · FAQ

Fair questions

How does pricing work?
Every engagement is priced project-based, from audience, length, format, and deliverables. You get a written proposal: scope, timeline, one fixed price. Nothing metered, nothing vague.
Virtual or in person?
Both. Virtual work runs year-round; in-person happens during school vacations and summer, so teachers never leave classrooms for it.
Who do you work with?
Public school districts, charter and independent schools, nonprofits, and education companies needing STEM subject-matter expertise, from single-school projects to multi-school programs.
What does a program review include?
Standards-alignment review of your materials, classroom visits (virtual, or in-person during breaks and summer), teacher input, and a written, prioritized improvement roadmap.
How far ahead should we book?
In-person slots around school breaks and summer are limited, so briefs coming in now get first choice of the 2026–27 break calendar and summer 2027. Virtual engagements can usually start within a few weeks.