Innovative Solutions to Your Most Critical Problems
We Help You Build for the Future
Our services facilitate organizational transformation. Setting ambitious goals, restructuring your investments, advancing your equity agenda, revamping student services, developing higher education and business partnerships — we provide expertise that leads to meaningful change. We work closely with you to ensure that improvements can be sustained beyond our partnership.
Strategic Advising
We help you design an organizational strategy that is centered on students and rooted in equity. Our planning process begins with a comprehensive needs assessment, which involves not just a detailed analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, but also a genuine understanding of what your stakeholders value. Such engagement ensures that your goals, objectives, and tactics reflect community priorities. Moreover, it generates new ideas on how resources can be maximized to serve students, particularly those who require the most support.
Services
Facilitate a planning process that sets a clear organizational strategy and fulfills grant requirements.
Design systemwide initiatives that align with strategic goals and unlock new partnership opportunities.
Provide technical assistance on braiding multiple funding sources and targeting high-priority areas.
Experience
Developed a three-year strategic plan for a large urban school system with a $750 million annual budget.
Established a college and career readiness initiative with a $40 million annual budget.
Created an expanded learning strategy with $55 million in federal funds.
Program Design
We build your capacity to deliver excellent and equitable services to students, families, and schools. Through authentic stakeholder consultations, as well as extensive analyses of programmatic strengths and weaknesses, we develop multiple options for strengthening operational effectiveness and efficiency. We ensure that these options draw from both research literature and innovative practices. We also align them to your organizational goals and incorporate key performance indicators, which allow for continuous improvement and sustainability.
Services
Adopt new educational approaches and technological tools at scale to enhance current programs.
Integrate data analytics into existing processes and procedures to help customize services.
Pilot, incubate, and institutionalize new academic programs and student supports that promote equity.
Experience
Developed an online dual enrollment certificate program in collaboration with a university partner.
Revamped college advising services for low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students.
Embedded K-12 literacy and math support blocks into the school day at 30 under-resourced sites.
Executive Leadership
We assist you in implementing strategic initiatives on either an interim or fractional-executive basis, with the goal of enabling students to grow academically, complete college, and thrive in the workplace. Our approach is collaborative. We work closely with internal teams to build a high-performance culture across academics, operations, and policy. We also engage external partners, including board members, philanthropic investors, and community representatives, to create conditions for organizational success and student achievement.
Services
Execute large-scale strategic initiatives that improve educational outcomes and close opportunity gaps.
Manage board relations and strengthen the governance culture to ensure alignment with the executive team.
Coordinate learning networks and partnership activities between educational institutions.
Experience
Led the implementation of a literacy initiative, rooted in the science of reading, at 18 under-resourced schools.
Facilitated the development of a long-range board plan and executive director performance review process.
Convened faculty symposia and negotiated multi-year agreements between districts and postsecondary partners.