We partner with districts, networks, and schools to develop leaders and teachers towards their greatest potential through high-quality professional development, embedded coaching, and strategic planning. We help to create thriving adult cultures that allow ALL students to grow and succeed.
We support schools, networks, and districts at varying levels of intensity:
Monthly Professional Development (to teachers, leaders, admin)
Weekly or Bi-Weekly On-site Coaching
Weekly or Bi-Weekly Virtual Planning
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Improving Schools Inc is a national non-profit educational services provider focused on improving outcomes for all students.
Improving Schools is comprised of high performing school leaders turned coaches. Leaders who are passionate about equity and social justice. Leaders who will not rest until all students have schools where they each can thrive. We are teachers. We are learners. We are leaders.
School Quality Reviews are in-depth assessments of school systems including evaluation of leadership practices for instructional improvement, organizational processes, and efficacy beliefs, based on recent research on continuous improvement in schools.
Improving Schools Network Improvement Community (NIC) program focuses on actively contributing to improving student achievement across schools through shared best practice and problem solving with school leaders.
Our development and coaching includes both professional developpement delivered before/after/during school (per school-based decision) and in-classroom coaching (including modelling and co-teaching).
Improving Schools runs two leadership development programs: one as an aspiring leader program and the other as an in-service development program. The programs are outlined below.
Social and emotional learning (SEL) enhances students’ capacity to integrate skills, attitudes, and behaviors to deal effectively and ethically with daily tasks and challenges.
Culturally responsive (or relevant) teaching is “a pedagogy that empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by using cultural referents to impart knowledge, skills, and attitudes
Improving Schools is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping underserved students gain access to top-quality education by improving existing systems, structures, and practices at the schools, network, and district levels. We focus on developing capacity in school leaders and teachers. We believe that all districts, even those that have traditionally struggled, are home to talented educators who, when properly recognized, organized, and developed, have great potential to lead transformative change in their schools.
Improving Schools Inc is a national non-profit educational services provider focused on improving outcomes for all students.
Improving Schools is comprised of high performing school leaders turned coaches. Leaders who are passionate about equity and social justice. Leaders who will not rest until all students have schools where they each can thrive. We are teachers. We are learners. We are leaders.
Improving Schools Inc is a national non-profit educational services provider focused on improving outcomes for all students.