Consulting Services

Our Approach to Education Consulting

We approach each district partnership with the mindset that while we can share what has worked elsewhere, we must seek to understand the current culture and context of each district and school. We honor the goals, priorities, and vision of every leader with whom we work, and we help them to hone, articulate, and make those visions a reality.

Our team leads with equity and leverages deep expertise, design thinking, expert facilitation, a spirit of collaboration, and our extensive toolkit of resources and technology to deliver sustainable results.

Instructional Design and Implementation

Instructional design is an iterative process. To achieve the best student outcomes, districts must rigorously evolve instruction to meet student needs.

Curriculum Catalysts can help you identify the biggest instructional challenges facing your district and create student-centered approaches to address them. We provide guidance, support, and facilitated experiences to create meaningful changes in instructional practices.

We will help your team develop the skills needed to implement instructional transformations, continually reassess instructional practices, and update your approach based on changing needs. Our work is grounded in evidence-based practices that have a demonstrable impact on student and teacher success.

Personalized and Blended Learning

This instructional approach empowers students to take ownership of their learning and get the instruction they need, when and how they need it.

We’ll work with your district to develop and articulate a vision and strategy for personalized learning and/or blended learning, and support its implementation through high-quality professional development for teachers and leaders.

School Transformation

School transformation is the process of building (or rebuilding) school structures around the needs of students and communities. This includes school design, restart, and school improvement.

We can help your district develop the systems and vision for a new school or program, or rethink and redesign an existing one.

School Improvement

Curriculum Catalysts designs sustainable solutions to improve student outcomes. We recognize that districts with schools designated as in need of improvement must focus on immediate compliance requirements while investing in leadership and learning practices to achieve long-term sustainable improvements.

Organizational Strategy

Before you can solve complex problems, you need to understand the root causes—sometimes that process is as challenging as solving the problem itself. That’s where our education strategy consulting comes in.

Curriculum Catalysts develops winning strategies through community and employee engagement. We identify core challenges, discover new possibilities through human-centered design, and ensure successful implementation through responsive planning. We’ll help your team prioritize, filter options, and identify what works.

Talent Strategy

Retaining top talent is an enormous challenge in education. The current climate has led to increased burnout and high rates of exit among educators. While the challenge is great, we can help your district support and grow the incredible talent you have — and make your district the destination for new talent.

Strategic Planning

Whether your district needs to create a new strategic plan or implement and monitor an existing one, we can help. Working closely with your team, we'll craft a strategic plan that builds unity in your community, fosters alignment, and is a catalyst for transformational change.

Leadership Strategies

Leadership is an art, and every artist needs time and discipline to hone their craft. Like any expert, educational leaders need opportunities to gain skills and develop habits that will help them implement lasting change in their districts.

At Curriculum Catalysts, we take a systems approach to educational leadership development, leveraging individual and team learning to inspire innovative leadership and help new leaders emerge.

Leading Change Through Teams

By building your leadership capacity, you will establish the foundation needed to support teachers and leaders to more fully design, implement, and sustain innovation in their classrooms and work.

Your team will realize a shared vision and learn how to drive equitable outcomes across diverse and complex learning organizations.

Organizational Leadership to Support District Operations

We work with states to support district teams, increasing alignment and collaboration.

District teams benefit from support in implementing components of a strategic plan, monitoring progress of initiatives, utilizing funding to strategically support programs, and building practices to bring district and statewide initiatives to life.

Surveys & Analytics

Today, many school districts struggle with DRIP syndrome: they are data rich but information poor. Some districts may collect data to check a box, while others may be inconsistent or organize data into silos.

At Curriculum Catalysts, we help you assess your current data culture to help you make smarter, more equitable decisions to improve educational experiences and outcomes for all students. We can help you develop new systems and ways of thinking around data, elevate student voice and autonomy through evidence-based data collection, monitor and improve instructional effectiveness, and measure progress against district strategic plans and school improvement goals.

Teacher & Staff Surveys

Whether you’re rolling out a new initiative, or trying to gauge how to support your teachers, our teacher surveys capture information about school quality, climate and teacher perceptions of instructional leadership and can gather feedback from beginning teachers about key challenges they are experiencing to support retention.

Student & Families Surveys

We believe that highlighting student voice can create positive change in districts. Through our student surveys, you can gather students’ perspectives about teaching practices, student engagement and mindsets, peer support, SEL, school climate, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Family and community voice via our Family Surveys provide input from parents and guardians about school climate, diversity, equity, and inclusion, parent satisfaction, barriers to family engagement as well as other key indicators.