Staff & Implementation Resources

Staff Resources for Building Metacognitive Infrastructure

As part of the Metacognitive Moves System™ (MMS), these resources support faculty, advisors, tutors, coaches, and institutions with shared language, visible learning processes, and stronger coordination across roles.

Open-access and licensed resources designed to support facilitation, implementation, and system-wide consistency.

See How It All Connects

These staff resources are designed to work alongside the student-facing tools.

See how each resource supports students at different stages of their academic journey — and how the full system fits together.

Student-Facing

The Student Tools

Five interactive tools for planning, preparing, reflecting, and goal-setting. Each includes a practical implementation guide for facilitators — from classrooms to coaching conversations.

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Strategic View

The Student Journey Matrix

How every tool maps across six stages of the academic experience and the student learning and success ecosystem.

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Open Access

Free for Practitioners. No Account Required.

These two resources are available to any educator, advisor, tutor, or coach — right now, at no cost. They establish the conceptual foundation and real-time facilitation language that make every other part of the system more effective.

Open Access

Metacognitive Foundations

The conceptual grounding for the entire system. Establishes a shared understanding of the four core metacognitive phases — Planning, Monitoring, Evaluating, and Reflecting — giving your team the common language that makes practice consistent and recognizable across every role and context.

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Best For

  • Orienting and onboarding new staff
  • Faculty and staff professional development
  • Creating shared vocabulary across roles
  • First-time use of any tool in the system
  • Building a consistent learning culture
Open Access

The Metacognitive Wheel

An interactive tool built around 21 metacognitive moves across the four phases. Designed not as a test but as a mirror — it makes student thinking visible during authentic academic work, giving facilitators and learners a shared way to identify and name metacognitive moves as they happen.

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Best For

  • Real-time tutoring and coaching conversations
  • Study sessions and project work
  • Diagnosing metacognitive breakdowns before and after exams
  • Strengthening self-regulation across contexts
  • Low-barrier entry into metacognitive practice
Included with Institutional Licensing

Deeper Infrastructure for Licensed Partners.

These three resources are included with institutional licensing. They extend the system into observable growth, implementation alignment, and transferable skill development — giving your institution the tools to make metacognitive development trackable, coherent, and institution-wide.

Institutional License

The Metacognitive Crosswalk

An implementation guide that maps each B Optimal student tool to the four metacognitive phases. For practitioners, it provides coaching prompts, facilitation tips, and signs to look for at each phase. At the systems level, it creates coherence — giving faculty, tutors, and advisors shared language so they can build on each other's work rather than operating in silos.

Exclusively available to licensed B Optimal partner institutions. Contact us to learn about licensing options and receive access.

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Best For

  • Mapping tool deployment to curriculum milestones
  • Coordinating implementation across FYE, advising, and tutoring
  • Preventing fragmented or siloed tool adoption
  • Live coaching and program planning conversations
  • Scaling from pilot success to institutional infrastructure
Institutional License

Recognizing Metacognitive Growth

Makes metacognitive development visible for students, practitioners, and institutions. Identifies what growth actually looks like in practice — giving your team observable signals to recognize when learners are deepening their metacognitive capacity and moving beyond surface-level reflection into genuine self-regulation. Introduces four lenses for identifying change over time: awareness, learning, behavior, and academic outcomes.

Available for non-commercial use in institutions of higher education. Request institutional access to receive this resource.

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Best For

  • Recognizing developmental signals in student conversations
  • Connecting observable behaviors to program-level evidence
  • Moving beyond grades as the only measure of growth
  • Staff development and reflective practice
  • Institutional reporting on metacognitive outcomes
Institutional License

Skills in Action Competency Framework

A research-backed, behavior-based competency framework of 11 skills essential for college learners to develop for career and future readiness. Organized by expanding spheres of impact with student-centered language and concrete example behaviors at every level. Translates national standards like NACE Career Readiness Competencies into practical language students can understand, practice, and apply — connecting academic experiences to career readiness and civic engagement.

Available for non-commercial use in institutions of higher education. Request institutional access to receive this resource.

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Best For

  • Creating shared language for transferable skills across contexts
  • Making competency growth visible through concrete behaviors
  • Connecting academic learning to career readiness
  • Aligning with NACE, AAC&U, and other national frameworks
  • Designing and assessing authentic, skill-aligned learning experiences
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