Focus Areas: the Four Levers of Transformation
Transformational Leadership
Empower change through trust. Foster student-centered classrooms, schools, and districts rooted in authentic, caring relationships.
Data-Driven Improvement
Turn insights into actions. Build a practice of improvement through the routine of team-wide data collection and reflection.
Thriving Learning Environments
Create spaces where students belong. Engage every student in learning that fascinates, inspires, and connects.
On-Track Practices
Help students hit milestones that matter. Equip students to stay on course and achieve the success they deserve.
Transformational Leadership
Data-Driven Improvement
Thriving Learning Environments
On-Track Practices
Our Holistic Approach to Change
Strong leadership supports instructional improvement, which builds more engaging and effective classrooms. When students succeed in ninth grade, they have greater access to postsecondary opportunities. The foundation of our focus areas, these interdependent connections create learning environments where all students thrive.
1. Transformational Leadership
Belonging and innovation start with leaders who build trust among educators, center student experiences, and nurture professional joy. We uplift leadership practices rooted in equity and authentic care, so educators and students come to school each day excited to learn and grow together.
How It Works:
- Re-integrating learning and leadership
- Equitable practices in leadership and teaming
- Leadership ways of doing and being
- Leading Professional Learning Communities
- District strategic planning
2. Data-Driven Improvement
Data and outcomes reveal the most powerful drivers of student success. We help educators routinely examine and organize that data to develop practices, strategies, and classrooms that engage and support all learners.
How It Works:
- Continuous improvement practices
- Collaborative, problem-solving teams
- Bridging research and practice
- Data access and management
- Data use and data culture
3. Thriving Learning Environments
Students learn best when they feel like they belong. We help educators build learning environments where students feel safe exploring their curiosity, tackling every challenge, and pursuing their ambitions.
How It Works:
- Student voice
- Equity-based grading
- Classroom engagement
- Student sense of belonging
- Instructional improvement
4. On-Track Practices
Success is built one milestone at a time. On-track practices ensure that students stay engaged, meet key academic and developmental goals, and build the confidence and skills they need to succeed in school and beyond.
How It Works:
- Middle to high school transition
- Freshman teacher teams
- Improving course performance
- FAFSA completion