Layered Education
Flagship
Co-Teaching
Coaching, facilitated co-planning days, and walkthroughs that move pairs past one teach, one assist, into models where both teachers hold a true teaching role.
Schools and families, same side of the table.
Co-teaching, reading intervention, and IEP support for schools, districts, and the families they serve.
Where we work with schools
Reading Intervention
Implementation support across the tiers, with a specific focus on grades 6 to 12, run with what your school already uses and with the texts students are actually reading.
Inclusive Programs
Program design, scheduling and caseloads, staff training built as a series rather than one day in August, and the systems work that keeps it running after we leave.
Data and Measurement
Measuring whether an initiative is actually working. We start from the data you already collect and build the trackers, including for programs we had nothing to do with designing.
What changes in the schools we work with
Across 20+ campuses supported with co-teaching, reading intervention, and inclusive program design.
3x
Course grades
Nearly three times as many students with disabilities passed their classes with a C+ or higher at one Los Angeles charter high school, after a year of quarterly facilitated co-planning days.
99%
What teachers said
Said a facilitated co-planning day strengthened their co-teaching relationship, on exit slips collected at the end of every day across two school years.
And in reading intervention, students tell us it is working before any assessment does.
I can read the freeway signs now.Student in reading intervention
I can read the menu at the restaurant.Student in reading intervention
I understand my friends' text messages now.Student in reading intervention
For parents and families
Clarity. Confidence. Better IEPs.
Special education is complex. Meetings move quickly, parents get put on the spot to make decisions, and it's hard to turn data into the right goals and services. We work alongside families before, during, and after those meetings.
Is this normal, or should I be worried?
Hourly advocacy and consultation
Short-term, flexible help when you need it.
Is what they are offering actually enough?
Records review and advocacy planning
A full read of the file, and a plan.
I want someone in the room who has read the file
IEP meeting support
Preparation, someone in the room, and a debrief.
I cannot do this alone every year
Ongoing coaching and partnership
A partnership across every meeting in the year.
Family Advocacy Resource Library
If you have ever walked out of a meeting unsure what you were even allowed to ask for, this is for you. The things an advocate would tell you, written down so you can use them yourself. What to say when the team says no. How to read the assessment report before you walk into the meeting. Which rights are actually yours, and when they apply. Sentence frames you can bring in on paper and read out loud if your voice goes.
For parents who want to walk in prepared without hiring anyone.
The Co-Teaching Resource Library
More than 180 co-teaching tools you can use the week you get them. Planning protocols, model guides, quick checks, look-fors and research briefs, licensed to a school or district so every pair can reach them rather than one coach with a login.
Available now
District and school licenses
Every co-teaching pair on your campuses gets the full library, with onboarding so it actually gets used.
The call is free and runs thirty minutes.
Hardcover and digital
Empower Your Voice: A Student-Led IEP Journal
An interactive journal that walks elementary-aged students through preparing for their own IEP meeting: their strengths, the goals they want, how they learn best, and how to say all of it out loud in a room full of adults.
Student-led IEPs change what gets written into a plan, because the student is in the conversation rather than being discussed. This is the tool that gets them ready.
What partners say
I have been in education for 10 years and while I have received an enormous amount of coaching and professional development from my school and district, nothing has come close to positively benefitting my teaching as much as working with Layered Education. Before working with Layered Education I had no idea how to run a co-taught classroom to its full potential. After my coaching and meetings with Ms. Shulters, my co-teacher and I have improved tremendously and our students' success has as well.Yolanda A., teacher
Layered Education has been critical in expanding the possibilities of adopting equitable practices that truly address the needs of students with disabilities. What I also appreciate about Layered Ed is that they truly take the time to understand our mission so that their support is aligned with our commitment to our community of learners and educators.Dr. Susana C., Director of Special Education and Psychological Services
See Glynis speak
Attendees rate Glynis 6.8 out of 7 as an instructor across her Bureau of Education & Research seminars.
2026 Co-Teaching Conference
Anaheim, California
Science of Reading, grades 6 to 12
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Science of Reading, grades 6 to 12
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Getting the right support to the right student
Glynis Shulters is the founder and principal consultant of Layered Education, now in her 17th year in special education across teaching, program leadership, MTSS systems design, and family advocacy. She works with schools, districts, and families across the country.
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