Our Services

In our partnerships we are committed to helping schools deliver on their promise to communities, families, and students. We offer a variety of services to ensure that every child is able to thrive and achieve in every classroom, every day, every year. Below is a list of example partnership options.

School Leader and School Leader Manager Programming

We design and lead a customized sequence of professional development, bolstered by follow-up coaching to guide implementation, spanning anywhere between 6 months to 3 years depending on leader goals. Example focus areas may include:

Focusing on student systems, teacher feedback, professional development, and maximizing school leader time

Focusing on student achievement analysis, giving real-time feedback, and coaching teams

Assessing current successes and gap trends, determining leader responses, and collaboratively planning ahead

Customized Training to Drive Results In the Classroom

We design targeted professional development sessions, based on exemplars from top instructors around the country, resulting in strong planning and practice, whether delivered to classroom teachers, coaches, principals, or district leaders. Training topics may include:

Strategizing principal check-ins, modeling leadership skills, leading instructional teams, and executing school walkthroughs

Building strong student culture, giving effective teacher feedback, incorporating data-driven practices, and leading high-impact teacher trainings

Leading effective teacher feedback meetings, coaching for engagement and rigor, giving real-time coaching, and leading high-impact trainings

Training methods of strong content preparation, building strong classroom culture, ensuring student engagement, and building rigorous learning techniques

School or District-Level Strategic Planning

We provide structured guidance to determine school strengths and gaps, name core goals and metrics for the future, and prioritize initiatives to reach success. Example focus areas may include:

Assessing successes, naming current gaps and the root causes of gaps, and identifying core leader and teacher actions needed to close gaps

Identifying measurable goals and metrics for the upcoming term/year, prioritizing key initiatives, and evaluating each initiative to ensure goals will be met

Building monthly maps of action steps, year-long calendar and leader schedules, identifying role clarity across schools, and drafting upcoming trainings to engage stakeholders

Connecting regularly to evaluate progress and close gaps, reviewing upcoming deliverables, and supporting planning

Individual Leader or Leader Team Coaching

We support ongoing development, through periodic phone or Zoom calls, aimed at unpacking leader motivations, clarity of purpose, and how leadership practices can be fully maximized to ensure impact. Example focus topics may include:

Coaching key leadership skills such as strategic planning, assessing school progress, conducting check-in meetings, providing real-time feedback, modeling key leadership levers

Designing professional development sessions for the leader to use with their team, modeling lead sessions or meetings, or developing drafts schedules and tools

Planning visits during the school year as needed to determine trends, planning key leadership needed to strengthen school progress, and modeling key leadership skills on the ground