consulting services
Leadership Coaching
As the role of school leadership becomes increasingly complex, having a thought partner can be an essential support. Coaching for school administrators offers clarity, fresh perspective, and access to shared resources for yourself or members of your administrative team.
Implementation Planning
The greatest challenge most schools face is not knowing what to do, but rather planning how to effectively, consistently and efficiently do it. When launching an initiative or preparing for a new program, develop a clear, personalized and actionable work plan, as well as tools to support feedback and progress monitoring.
Professional Development for Faculty
Whether creating momentum behind instructional change or deepening understanding behind your school’s philosophy, facilitating engaging, reflective and actionable learning experiences for your faculty can drive outcomes with students. Interactive sessions include a balance of establishing purpose, building common language and meaningful opportunities to apply it to one’s own classroom and context. Topics include inquiry-based instruction, learning targets, equity and diversity, reflective listening, classroom management and effective discipline, scaffolds, differentiation, rigor and evidence of student learning.
Team Meeting Facilitation & Design
When gathering your leadership team, association, coaching team, instructional council or school-based committee, having a purposeful agenda and thoughtful facilitation will allow you to make the most of the rare opportunities we have to gather together. Using strategies from a variety of sources, including Adaptive Schools, Fierce Conversations, Cognitive Coaching and IDEO Design Thinking, agendas will be designed in partnership to reflect your group’s goals, be it mission/vision, strategic planning, relationship building, prioritization, professional learning or reflection/goal-setting.
Master Schedule Support
The master schedule reflects and drives most of a school’s priorities in a given school year. Partnership might include collecting input from stakeholders, designing a work plan, or analyzing your current schedule for opportunities and/or creative solutions.
Data Analysis
Often the greatest data challenges that schools face is not collecting data, but effectively and efficiently analyzing it so that it becomes actionable. Comparing diversity initiative data by demographics can reveal which groups are feeling most supported by your work so far, charting student progress over time can inform earlier, more targeted intervention, and an enrollment model can empower admissions committee to be more strategics in their decision-making. Analysis is built in Excel or Google Sheets with the option to prepare charts for presentations in Power Point and/or Google Slides.
Teacher Support & Coaching
Teaching is a dynamic, complex and evolving profession, and finding more thoughtful and targeted ways to
support educators is essential for both retention and success. Based on your goals for your teacher(s), a variety of coaching styles (transformational, cognitive, facilitative and/or directive) and strategies will be used to work towards a more empowered, aligned approach to instruction, student relationships and/or family partnership.
Educational Consulting for Business
The opportunity to learn more about the educational landscape as you prepare particular services, technologies or products can provide valuable insight to those working outside of schools.
