Lead Transformative Change in Education
Guide Change Across Schools and Districts with Equity-Driven Support
Leading large-scale change can feel overwhelming without a clear actionable plan and collective buy-in. We work with district and school leaders to build the capacity, confidence, and systems needed to engage their community and guide schools through transformation with empathy and integrity.
Whether navigating leadership transitions, improving student outcomes, or reshaping school culture, we co-create strategic, equitable plans that honor your schools’ unique strengths and needs.
"What Partners in School Innovation has done has been so successful in the three schools that they started the work with that we’ve begun to model those practices across the district."
Superintendent, Battle Creek Public Schools, Battle Creek, MI
Implement School Improvement Plans With Precision and Care
Moving from planning to action takes more than execution—it requires understanding the people driving the change. Our coaches collaborate with K-12 leaders to design improvement plans that align with their district-wide priorities, while addressing the unique needs of each school, ensuring everyone is engaged in the process and committed to a shared vision.
By identifying motivations, addressing concerns with care, and navigating social dynamics, we help leaders proactively address resistance, build trust, and empower their team to adopt new practices.
Build Education Leaders’ Capacity to Inspire Collective Action
Lasting transformation begins with leaders who can inspire their communities and align their teams toward shared goals. Everyone involved must contribute more than performative participation; there must be genuine commitment across the community.
With experience guiding schools and districts through initiatives like strengthening student-teacher relationships, improving academic outcomes, and supporting special populations, we help leaders build the capacity to engage their teams and communities—empowering them to collaborate, overcome challenges, and sustain progress.
Leverage Data to Drive Progress and Inspire Continuous Improvement
Tracking and making meaning of progress—especially in areas that seem difficult to measure—can feel overwhelming. Using frameworks like the Results-Oriented Cycle of Inquiry (ROCI) which encourages reflection and adopting storytelling practices, we empower K-12 leaders to turn data into a tool for building momentum, celebrating wins, and driving meaningful action.
By coaching leaders on how to best configure proven resources and strategies to fit the needs of their schools, districts, and students, we help these change leaders confidently monitor progress, adapt plans, and highlight successes through stories that energize their community. Together, we work toward ensuring that every insight contributes to ongoing improvement and lasting change
"Partners in School Innovation is actually boots on the ground assisting the transformation of public schools. We’re talking about changing communities and the futures of children, preparing them for the 21st century."
Principal, San Francisco middle school, CA
Why K-12 Leaders Work with Partners in School Innovation
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Continuous Co-Creation
School and district leaders play a central role in solving the challenges their schools face. We work shoulder to shoulder with them to drive collaborative, transformative changes from beginning to end.
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Systemic Sustainability
We help leaders implement culturally and linguistically responsive core instructional programs, drive educator learning, and distribute leadership capacity to ensure the progress made is sustaining.
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Adaptive Practices
By tailoring plans to the context and pace of community and school environments, our agile coaches adapt processes as needed to meet the most pressing needs of school and district partners.
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Equity-Focused Lens
We strive alongside you to address the most persistent equity challenges by identifying, dismantling, and replacing inequitable systems with liberatory approaches to create lively, loving learning environments where all students thrive.
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Data-Informed Processes
By leveraging disaggregated data - both qualitative and quantitative, we’re able to work side by side with leaders toward shared outcomes. Together we track, measure, evaluate, analyze, and adjust processes for student betterment.
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Instructional Expertise
Our dynamic team comprises former teachers and leaders who successfully worked in underserved communities and now seek to help others create a better future for students by leveraging their experiences.
How Partners in School Innovation Empowers Driving Lasting Change
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Leadership Coaching for Sustainable Equitable Change
We coach K-12 leaders through root cause analysis using tools like our School Transformation Rubric to identify where to focus efforts. This rubric provides a clear framework to identify key areas for growth and align efforts with strategic goals. With this foundation, we co-create actionable plans, ensuring solutions address the real issues and lead to measurable change.
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Collaborative Learning Networks for Widespread Impact
We facilitate learning networks that connect teachers and K-12 across multiple schools and districts, providing opportunities for collaboration, shared learning, and aligned strategies. These networks support sustainable change by bringing leaders together around common goals, ensuring that improvements reach every level of the system.
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Data-Informed Change Frameworks and Strategies
Our coaches help school and district leaders lead from a continuous improvement mindset, using frameworks like the Results-Oriented Cycle of Inquiry (ROCI) to track progress, adjust strategies, and maintain momentum. We provide support with collecting and interpreting data, ensuring every decision is guided by meaningful insights and aligned with improvement goals.
Need to enable a change leadership approach?
District transformation is multi-faceted. Other ways we work with leaders:
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Strengthen K-12 leadership for lasting impact
We support educational leadership teams with driving meaningful change. Our expert coaches partner with school and district leaders to build their skills and support them with tackling challenges head-on, creating systems that support long-term success.
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Turn your vision into actionable change
Transform the vision for your school or district into real, day-to-day progress. We’ll help you uncover the root causes of persistent challenges and co-create a clear, strategic plan that leads to sustainable improvements and lasting success.
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Offer and lead more effective professional development
Our team of instructional experts and coaches can support your school or district at the individual, department, and site levels with implementing professional development for educators and K-12 leaders that leads to lasting change.
Want to learn more about our approach? Explore these resources.
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Take the “Change Management” course
Learn to manage complex changes in schools and gain the skills to handle resistance and emotional challenges when leading a change.
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Browse available professional development courses
Built in collaboration with leading experts in education, our complimentary online courses are available on demand and can be self-paced or taken with a cohort.
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Read stories of schools that have rallied for change
See how we partnered with engaged communities of educators, caregivers, and dedicated practitioners of continuous improvement on transformative initiatives.
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Learn how we build lively, loving learning communities
Check out the various ways that we develop people at all levels of the K-12 public education system to make it possible for schools to become places where students thrive.