What We Offer

 

Collaboration

No two schools are the same

We get to know your students, staff, and school to find solutions that work for your community. We commit to collaborate to find equitable outcomes for your school. You wouldn’t want a teacher giving the same handout to all students. Your consultant shouldn’t either.

Transparency

Sometimes, looking in the mirror is hard

We will serve as your mirror. We will be honest with what we see and hear, and equally honest about what we are not seeing and not hearing. You deserve the hear the truth about your school. We do this in service of students and their families.

Accountability

We talk the talk because we walk the walk

You can expect follow up from us on agreed action items, both on our end and yours. We enter into partnerships that’ll result in change, not ones that make us feel good. At the end of the day, feeling good does not ensure equitable education— change does.

Professional Development Offerings

Our PDs are practice based— we will lean into a particular skill and ensure your staff walks away with the ability to execute the skill. Often, PDs talk about a topic instead of actively practicing. Not us: We don’t talk about practice, we practice. The following is a sampling of the PD sessions we have faciliated since 2013:

  • Whole School Professional Development

    • Vision Planning

    • Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)

    • Classroom Systems and Routines

    • DEIB

    • Parent/Care-taker Communication

    • Staff Culture Trainings

      • New Teacher Professional Development (sessions and/or developing a year-long New Teacher Scope and Sequence Plan)

        • Clear Directions, Do-Nows

        • Body Positioning and Classroom Scanning

        • Creating Clear Classroom Expectations and a System for Enforcement

      • Advanced behavior management techniques

        • Least Invasive Techniques for Strong Classroom Culture

      • Restorative Conversations (see sample handout here)

      • Tiered in-class teacher/student conversations

  • Dean of Students/Culture Coaching

    • Mindsets

      • What are the mindsets of a leader? How do these mindsets impact our work?

    • Dean’s Office Organization

      • Office Set-up and Management: Physical Space, Systems and Routines

      • Data Management and Analysis to inform practice

        • Utilizing Deans’ List software to maximize efficiency

      • Student Referral Reflections

      • Post-referral follow up for staff and families

    • Student Conversations

      • Processing of Referrals

      • Successful Return to Class Protocol

    • Alternative to Suspension Professional Development

      • Consequence Matrix Training and Development

      • In School, Non-Suspension Consequences

      • Infraction-Based Reflections (see sample here)

      • Detention Reflections (see sample here)

        • Staff Detention Protocol (sample) and Student Protocol (sample)

  • Educator Organization

    • Taming the Email Beast: A two-hour PD which teaches educators how to walk away with 0 emails in their inbox at the end of each day.

    • Short v. Long Term Planning

    • Personal Organizational Systems

  • In-Person Coaching (in-class teaching/teacher management/school culture/systems)

    • Including resources on personal/school organization, whole-school coaching platform.

  • Whole-School Audit (a 30 point school-based inspection, covering operations, culture, academics, and staffing)

    • Including action steps for areas of growth.

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