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Strategic Planning
Competing priorities and daily challenges can cause even the best education leaders to lose focus on their long-term goals. Strategic planning helps clear the fog and gets you and your team energized to create and implement a thoughtful plan that brings bold change. Our approach is collaborative, iterative and attuned to your priorities.
Services
- Strategic Plan Development: We follow a comprehensive, data-driven process that engages and aligns your stakeholders, including students, educators, and the local community. Then we leverage our proven Strategic Planning Framework to facilitate the crafting of a thoughtful plan that guides implementation and can be sustained for years to come.
- Strategic Plan Updating: If you already have a strategic plan, we’ll provide a point of view on how it can be strengthened to more effectively address current challenges and opportunities. We then work alongside your stakeholders to revise the plan.
credentials
Including:
- School District of Philadelphia
- Syracuse City School District
- Jackson Public Schools
Dr. Whitney Oakley
Superintendent, Guilford County Schools
“They have been a trusted partner for many years. Most recently, my team and I have valued their thoughtful engagement of a wide range of stakeholders that brought us to an ambitious, award-winning strategic plan. We couldn’t have done it without them. They stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us to implement the plan. They are true partners.”
Strategic Planning
Competing priorities and daily challenges can cause even the best education leaders to lose focus on their long-term goals. Strategic planning helps clear the fog and gets you and your team energized to create and implement a thoughtful plan that brings bold change. Our approach is collaborative, iterative and attuned to your priorities.
Services
- Strategic Plan Development: We follow a comprehensive, data-driven process that engages and aligns your stakeholders, including students, educators, and the local community. Then we leverage our proven Strategic Planning Framework to facilitate the crafting of a thoughtful plan that guides implementation and can be sustained for years to come.
- Strategic Plan Updating: If you already have a strategic plan, we’ll provide a point of view on how it can be strengthened to more effectively address current challenges and opportunities. We then work alongside your stakeholders to revise the plan.
credentials
Including:
- School District of Philadelphia
- Syracuse City School District
- Jackson Public Schools
Dr. Whitney Oakley
Superintendent, Guilford County Schools
“They have been a trusted partner for many years. Most recently, my team and I have valued their thoughtful engagement of a wide range of stakeholders that brought us to an ambitious, award-winning strategic plan. We couldn’t have done it without them. They stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us to implement the plan. They are true partners.”
Recruitment & Retention
The teacher shortage nationwide demands a rethink of how we recruit and retain our best educators. We deliver on both sides of the solution – filling the pipeline with new teachers and helping schools attract and retain great educators.
We provide career switchers and unlicensed paras and subs with the education and mentoring they need to become licensed teachers.
We help school districts and charter schools predict their hiring needs and start recruiting well in advance of vacancies so they have teachers at the moment they need them. Our teacher development and career pathing plans ensure schools will keep their educators in the classroom for years to come.
Services
- Fill the new teacher pipeline. Online alternative certification education program followed by 12 months of in-classroom mentorship
- Attract and hire licensed teachers. A 12-month recruitment campaign that school leaders can customize and implement rapidly
- Retain teachers. Retention analysis and customized, sustainable strategies to help schools keep their best educators
credentials
Dr. Paul Freeman
Superintendent, Guilford Public Schools (CT)
“They are great thought partners to superintendents, chief academic officers, chief human resource officers, and other leaders. Having worked shoulder to shoulder with them on a number of projects, their experience and expertise for unpacking districts’ challenges and their commitment to partner success is unmatched.”
Accelerated Learning
We help you accelerate learning by giving you the strategy and support to transform instruction across your school and dramatically improve student outcomes as proven by pre- and post-assessments. We work side-by-side with leaders and teachers every step of the way until you see the results in student learning.
Five Components to Maximize Year-over-Year Gains
- Accelerated learning audit and recommendations given your budget and context, such as high dosage tutoring models, learning labs, and extended learning day schedules
- Institute courses for teachers
- Supplemental reading and math curricula
- Side-by-side in-person and virtual teacher coaching
- Connection to a network of experts
- RISE Summer School program to accelerate learning in as little as five weeks
credentials
- 2022 and 2023 National Partner with Bloomberg Philanthropies for Summer Boost
- Exceptional Results Recognized by the Indiana State Department of Education
- Texas Statewide Implementation of Accelerated Learning Models
*2022 RISE Summer School Five Week Program
Josh Pacos
Director of Schools, Rocketship D.C. Washington D.C.
“Our partnership has had a tremendous impact on student achievement in our schools. School leaders have deepened their instructional knowledge and management, our teachers have developed deep content expertise and the tools to push student thinking, and most importantly our students are experiencing academic success on a large scale.”
Custom Professional Development
Schools and districts need a simplified approach to fulfilling their wide-ranging professional development and training needs. Today educators must navigate up to 50 different logins in order to access their subscriptions, tools, apps and resources. And school administrators are overly burdened with purchasing, managing and renewing these resources.
We offer a one-stop solution that is customizable, flexible and comprehensive. We give you a higher return on your education investment and your teachers a more satisfying way to set personal goals, learn, and track their progress. All of our learning content is aimed at giving teachers the knowledge and tools they need to increase student achievement.
Customizable Products and Tools
- 50+ professional development courses
- Award-winning video coaching and self reflection platform
- 1,500+ video library demonstrating exemplar practices
- New teacher development program
- 180+ graduate-level courses
- Master’s and doctoral programs
credentials
Kevin Eakes
Assistant Dean, School of Education College of Charleston
“The robust repository of teaching videos was the first attraction to Teaching Channel. Name a grade, a subject or instructional approach, and Teaching Channel has a resource.”
Equity Consulting
All students should have an equal opportunity to receive highly effective instruction, engage with rigorous curriculum, and benefit from fair policies and processes. Addressing educational equity is challenging work. It requires a strategic approach so that educators and educational organizations are able to both identify and take action to eliminate the inequities that exist.
We deliver thoughtful planning, clear objectives, an honest assessment of the current situation, and a sustainable plan for improvement in close partnership with our clients.
Services
- Equity Analysis: quantitative and qualitative data analysis, comprehensive stakeholder research, detailed report with short-and long-term recommendations
- Equity-Centered Professional Learning, Coaching and Action Planning: Customized support to prioritize and address existing inequitable structures and systems, along with coaching for personal reflection and growth
credentials
in Equity Solutions
Phillip I. Marcus, Jr.
Director of Equity, Inclusion & Wellness;
Chappaqua Central School District, NY
“[Our partnership] has been transformative for the Chappaqua Central School District. We have benefited immensely from their client-focused approach, which places opportunities for students at the center of all conversations.”
Case Examples
Accelerated Learning
Challenge
Research has revealed that 1 in 3 children in kindergarten through 3rd grade have little chance of reading on grade level by the end of 2023 without major and systemic interventions. Students in 4th and 8th grade who took the Nation’s Report Card test in spring 2022 showed the biggest drop in math performance since 1990. And although this problem was previously seen across the country among urban, disadvantaged youth, the pandemic wiped out the gains we had achieved in closing the opportunity gap
Solution
- Five weeks of engaging, standards-aligned curriculum in literacy and math
- Pre-program training
- Weekly virtual professional development for teachers
- Pre-and post-assessments
- Progress monitoring and data analysis tools
- The program is also flexible; schools can design their own summer schedule and pair this program with existing programs and/or enrichment partners.
Results
20,000 students in RISE Summer School 2022 grew an average of 47% in math and 60% in ELA in just five weeks.
Approximately 10,000 NYC students participated in RISE Summer School 2022 through our partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies. In five weeks, the percentage of students proficient in math and English nearly doubled, prompting the program expansion to eight cities in 2023.
5,000 students in Indianapolis in RISE Summer School 2021 achieved statistically significant gains in the end-of-year state assessment, according to research by the Indiana DOE.
Equity Services
Challenge
Solution
- Recruitment and retention
- Policy and audit
- Professional learning; and
- Equity plan development
To ensure organizational cohesion, each of these teams shared and coordinated their work plans. Over the next several years, the district made tremendous progress and achieved its goal of building capacity to assess, address and solve education inequities.
Equity + Teacher Performance
Challenge
Solution
We began by establishing a model for systemic change that we called the 7 Levers of Traction for School Improvement. Each lever was interlinked and designed to be sustainable beyond the first year. Side by side with our partners, we implemented the model in each of the 47 schools within the districts.
- Networked improvement community
- Strategic planning
- Recruitment and retention
- Leadership Academies
- Instructional leadership teams
- Professional learning communications
- Instructional coaching
Results
66% of teachers reported that their students’ achievement improved
74% of teachers reported that their practice improved
In grades 3-8, Black students outperformed the White students in Language Arts and Math both in their districts and in their states as a whole
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