Teaching Lab — Stronger Consulting Case Study

The Challenge

Rapid growth required structure, focus, and scalability

Teaching Lab is a national professional learning nonprofit that supports educators with research based coaching, curriculum implementation, and teacher development services.

Three core needs drove this engagement:

1
Revenue diversification
Teaching Lab needed to reduce dependence on grants and strengthen earned revenue opportunities through strategic partnerships and service offerings
2
Operational alignment
The organization needed stronger systems for pricing, staffing, forecasting, and cross-functional coordination to support continued growth.
3
Market positioning
Teaching Lab needed clarity about where to focus business development efforts and how to prioritize the highest-impact opportunities.

The Approach

Building strategy, systems, and growth discipline

Assess revenue and growth opportunities

Stronger conducted a full review of Teaching Lab’s revenue streams, market position, partnerships, and organizational capacity. The assessment identified areas for scalable growth and operational refinement.

Develop a scalable revenue strategy

Stronger helped Teaching Lab clarify business development priorities, improve pricing strategy, and identify sustainable earned revenue opportunities aligned to mission impact.

Strengthen internal systems and forecasting

The engagement included recommendations around staffing models, forecasting, operational coordination, and financial planning to support long-term scalability.

Create implementation tools and processes

Stronger delivered practical tools, planning frameworks, and strategic recommendations to support execution, accountability, and continued growth.

Outcomes

What Teaching Lab gained

Significant earned revenue growth

Teaching Lab increased earned revenue from approximately $2 million in 2021 to more than $9 million by 2025.

Clear business development focus

The organization gained clearer priorities around partnerships, opportunity selection, and revenue generating initiatives.

Improved operational discipline

Teaching Lab strengthened internal planning, forecasting, and coordination systems needed to sustain rapid growth.

Sustainable scaling infrastructure

The engagement helped position Teaching Lab for long-term national expansion while maintaining alignment to mission and implementation quality.

Stronger Insight

“

Teaching Lab had already built significant momentum because its work meets a real need in the field: helping educators implement strong curriculum through professional learning that changes practice. Our role was to help convert that momentum into a scalable revenue strategy, with clearer market focus, stronger pricing discipline, better forecasting, and the operating systems needed to sustain growth without losing mission alignment. - Mike Montoya, CEO, Stronger Consulting

Helping Teaching Lab Turn Organic Growth into a Scalable Revenue Strategy

Rapid growth required structure, focus, and scalability

Building strategy, systems, and growth discipline

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