Northlight
Northlight STEM
STEM consulting & professional learning
Better science teaching, built with your teachers.
Northlight STEM Consulting (NLC) does STEM consulting and professional learning for schools and districts: curriculum, program improvement, teacher workshops, and coaching. Drew Giese serves as thought partner and planning and logistics lead, from first conversation to final deliverables.
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
ConsultingSingle units to full-year maps: inquiry-driven science curriculum, backwards-designed from assessments and aligned to your state standards. You get a scope and sequence, grade-by-grade vertical alignment, and materials teachers actually teach.
Professional development workshops
Professional learningHands-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; logistics and materials fully handled.
Instructional coaching
Professional learningOngoing 1:1 or team cycles: co-planning, honest observation feedback, model teaching. Virtual year-round; in person during breaks and summer.
Program review & improvement
ConsultingStandards-alignment review of your materials, classroom visits, and teacher input, distilled into a prioritized improvement roadmap your leadership can act on.
Science writing & content review
ConsultingPlain-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.
02 · How we work
Simple by design
Lean process, clear next steps, from first conversation to finished deliverables.
How an engagement runs
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Start the conversation
Book a free 30-minute call, or use the project brief builder: two minutes, no commitment.
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Confirm fit, get a proposal
We talk through your goals, confirm it's a fit, and you receive a written proposal: scope, deliverables, timeline, project-based pricing.
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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 sessions, design check-ins, content review, and full remote workshops, on a flexible virtual schedule.
Every month of the yearIn person, school vacations & summer
On-site workshops, kickoffs, and classroom visits happen when school is out, so teachers never leave classrooms for it.
Winter, February & April breaks · SummerBlended engagements pair virtual momentum with targeted in-person visits: the best of both formats.
03 · About
Led by Drew Giese, MPH
Drew Giese is a STEM Instructional Coach at Quabbin Regional, and a science teacher before that, with 15+ years of classrooms and coaching behind the work. He also serves as the school's Innovation Pathways Coordinator, AP Coordinator, and MyCAP leader. That experience shapes one belief: great science 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 pre-clinical biomedical curriculum plus 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 science: lessons teachers trust, workshops they remember, programs built to last.
Program expertise, via consulting or professional learning:
OpenSciEd
Phenomenon-driven science units designed for the NGSS, used in classrooms nationwide.
PLTW
Project Lead The Way's hands-on STEM pathways, from Launch through high school engineering.
Innovation Pathways
Massachusetts's applied-learning pathways linking high schools with employer partners. Drew coordinates Innovation Pathways and leads MyCAP at Quabbin Regional.
Summary: Drew is a STEM Instructional Coach at Quabbin Regional and the school's Innovation Pathways Coordinator, AP Coordinator, and MyCAP leader, with 15+ years in science teaching and instructional coaching. His foundation pairs classroom expertise with research science: published molecular biology research, an MPH from UMass Amherst, completed biomedical training at UMass Medical School, and science writing for the ABC News Medical Bureau.
04 · Book a call
Start with a 30-minute conversation
A free intro call with Drew: talk through your goals, get a read on fit, and leave with next steps. No brief required.
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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.
What does your project need?
Select all that apply. We'll size the proposal to the scope and scale of your project.
How should the work happen?
One choice. Virtual runs year-round; in-person slots follow the school break calendar.
About your setting
Everything is optional, but details sharpen the recommendations.
Your project brief
Review your choices. The brief and recommendations generate automatically.
Project-based pricing, sized to the scope and scale of your project. Copy, download, or email the brief to northlightstem@gmail.com to start the conversation. Prefer to talk first? Book a free 30-minute call.
06 · FAQ