Strategic Consulting & Design

Supporting district leaders to design and manage change under complex and uncertain conditions. Learn ways to:

• Meaningfully engage community members throughout the strategic planning and implementation process

• Build trust across diverse community perspectives

• Design flexible goals that remain relevant despite changing conditions

• Create implementation structures that allow for continuous learning

• Transform conflict into creative problem-solving opportunities

• Recognize and leverage existing community strengths and resources

• Measure progress using both quantitative and qualitative indicators

• Develop leadership capacity at multiple levels within your system

• Shift from rigid planning cycles to adaptive, responsive frameworks for educational change management

• Balance short-term needs with long-term vision

Too often change initiatives only focus on taking action, not on learning and adjusting strategies based on the impact of the actions. While specific goals and outcomes are context specific, some common aims for our Community of Practice facilitation include:

• Building shared language, understanding, and increased will, skill, and knowledge to identify, disrupt, and address inequities in participants’ efforts;

• Increased capacity of members to use a racial equity and systems thinking lens to complex organizational leadership and cross-institutional challenges;

• Influencing shifts in members’ respective approaches, intentions, communications, and/or goals related to equity

• Cultivate relationships, incorporate processes, and utilize frameworks to develop a meaningful, authentic and robust learning community in which a commitment to learning, being and doing are expected; 

• Make structural change by interrupting existing institutional dynamics/approaches through the formation of an intentional, change-centric community of practice. 

Communities of Practice may be for a single or cross-sector institutional group and are embedded in a system or organization and are typically a year-long course of study and design for staff from various programs and departments.

Custom PD

For leaders charged with leading a system-level initiative or project. Support in coaching, managing, supervising change initiatives through planning and facilitating effective meetings, managing group dynamics and team development.

Responsive to what the client is working to change or reimagine. This involves developing strategies (not a plan) for creating a more equitable and inclusive organization, institution, or collective effort. Designs are based on data gathered as well as the learning that is taking place. Through collaboration with a diverse group of interest holders, new approaches and solutions are developed that take into account the complex and dynamic nature of the problem in a complex system.

Support for leaders to engage focal student inquiry groups toward building cultures of belonging in the classroom by way of collecting and making meaning of student experience data