The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) provides professional development to teachers in the instructional strategies of the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) and the Mathematics Design Collaborative (MDC). This professional development provides time for teachers to receive out-of-class guided instruction in planning assignments that engage students in challenging learning experiences followed by embedded classroom coaching and feedback. In 2017, SREB partnered with My Student Survey to develop and administer surveys to middle grades and high school students in schools where LDC and MDC instructional practices were implemented. The focus of the study was to compare the instructional experiences students encountered in the classrooms of teachers who experienced intensive LDC and MDC professional development from SREB (LDC and MDC trained teachers) to students who were in classrooms of teachers who had not participated in this professional development (non-LDC and non-MDC trained teachers). The data show SREB strategies produce good results in helping teachers and students grow and achieve their best.