School Improvement

Areas of Expertise

• Data Triangle Progress Monitoring Tool
  • The Data Triangle tool helps education leaders improve their school culture and drive better decision making by triangulating input from students, staff, and families. 
  • It has been widely used by schools and has a response rate of greater than one million.
  • Designed to reflect the research and best practices, the protocol has been certified, and includes more than 100 performance benchmarks for the key practices required for high performance.
• Leadership Team Coaching
  • A program designed to give school leaders the specific competencies to impact teaching and learning, and establish the structures, practices, and systems that drive student achievement and school success.
  • Three levels, so that the district may benefit from complete, guaranteed implementation including - Level 1: Building Foundations, Level 2: Digging Deeper, and Level 3: Sustaining Systems.
  • We assign a coach to your school for the purposes of building the capacity of your school leadership team. 
  • We will help your school leaders conduct targeted walkthroughs, engage in high-impact coaching conversations with staff, and become experts in the essential research and best practices that support excellence in instruction. This is a game changer for driving school-wide improvements.
• High-Quality Instructional Support
  • High-impact content, based upon research and best practices. Includes Student ownership of learning and learning targets; High student engagement; Higher-order complex questioning; Checking for understanding and targeted feedback; Differentiated instruction and practice.
• Strengthening the school district’s development of professional learning communities
  • Modify the very culture of the organization and the assumptions, roles, relationships, and norms that make up the culture.
  • We provide best practices from field experts so that all are able to benefit from the works of contributors.
  • Our process includes: Laying the Foundation, Metrics to establish baseline, set goals and progress monitor, Organizing the Work, Securing Culture and a Results Orientation

Your Accountability Partner

We are committed to achieving results
We are completely committed to working with schools and organizations to achieve results.
 
We also provide wrap-around supports
We stay with you and provide our “wrap-around support” and data collection and analysis in order to get to the target outcomes each school and district designates. The result: we help you actually achieve your student achievement and performance goals.
 
We work side-by-side with you
Our team works side-by-side with our schools, guiding, facilitating, modeling and judiciously implementing critical structures. Our approach is “hands on'' comprehensive, and results based. Our Associates are not only educational experiences practitioners, but also are current on research and best practices. All professional learning is delivered in a learning-by-doing highly participatory manner, which is the reason staff are able to immediately apply learnings whether a teacher at the classroom level or an administrator, schoolwide. School leaders attend these programs. Professional learning for staff and may include a turn-key approach.