Our Services.

We equip AP Literature educators to teach with cultural intentionality, literary rigor, and a deep sense of purpose. Whether you're just getting started or ready to reimagine your entire curriculum, our offerings meet you where you are — and move you forward.

  • Personalized Literary Strategy for Culturally Intentional AP Classrooms

    Need help rethinking your AP Literature curriculum — but not ready to dive into a full PD series just yet?
    The Curation Call is a light-lift, high-impact consultation designed for educators and instructional leaders seeking clarity, confidence, and a curated path forward.

    We’ll meet for a focused strategy session to talk through your current syllabus, texts, and goals. Afterward, you'll receive a custom Curation Report — a detailed set of recommendations aligned with the AP framework and grounded in the CIE approach to literary study.

    It’s the bridge between where you are and what’s possible — designed for those who want to move with intention.

    What’s Included:

    • Pre-meeting intake form to capture your course context, goals, and constraints

    • 60-minute virtual strategy consultation with Monique Constance

    • The Curation Report: A custom strategy brief with a curated CIE x AP aligned year long plan, aligned texts, instructional approaches, and suggested resources

    Perfect For:

    • AP Literature teachers revising their syllabus

    • Department leads seeking expert input

    • Instructional coaches exploring equitable approaches

    Format: Virtual Consultation + Custom Curation Report. Fee creditable toward a future CIE Lab engagement.

  • The Foundational PD for Reimagining Rigor
    This one-day professional learning experience introduces educators to the CIE Framework through the lens of AP Literature. You’ll explore how to align College Board expectations with culturally intentional instruction — and leave with practical strategies, planning tools, and protocols ready for immediate use.

    Perfect For: AP Literature teachers, instructional leaders, departments looking for alignment without overwhelm.


    Format: Virtual or In-Person | One Day

  • Let’s Build the Future of Your Course Together.
    Our Curriculum Labs are hands-on design sessions where you’ll audit your current texts, expand the canon, and co-create AP aligned units rooted in literary praxis. You bring the vision. We bring the framework, research, and tools to make it real.

    Perfect For: Schools redesigning curriculum, districts expanding access, teachers ready to go deeper

    Format: 2–4 Session Series | Virtual or In-Person

  • Our Signature Learning Experience
    This immersive professional learning arc is anchored in the genius of Zora Neale Hurston and grounded in the CIE Framework. Across workshops, co-design labs, and book studies, we explore what it means to teach differently and with purpose, joy, and critical literacy at the center.

    What’s Included:

    • Full-day anchor PD

    • Unit mapping intensive (Zora + companion texts)

    • Guided book club on Black intellectual traditions

    • Tools, templates, and curated resources

    Format: Multi-week Program | Virtual or In-Person

  • Eat. Talk. Dream. Build.
    This is professional development like you’ve never experienced. This Dinner Series brings educators together for curated conversations, curated cuisine by award - winning chefs, and culturally immersive experiences designed to deepen your pedagogical practice.

    Options Include:

    • Dinner dialogues hosted by Monique Constance

    • Literary salons with featured texts

    • Verbal literacy and memory as pedagogy

    Format: Custom Event | In-Person Only

Partner with us.

Schedule an initial consultation to learn more about bringing CIE Teaching and Learning Lab to your classrooms.