District Partnerships
Your principals are not struggling because they lack skills.
In thirty years I have rarely met a principal who did not know what good leadership looks like. What she lacked was the fire to sustain it. Depleted leaders do not need more strategy piled on an already exhausted back. They need restoration, and once that happens the strategy finally lands.
A dimmed leader cannot build a thriving school. The achievement gap is real, the culture crisis is real, the retention problem is real. All three sit downstream of one thing that almost no one names out loud.
Full Partnership
The Rekindled District Transformation Partnership™
Call for Quotes · Twelve months, embedded · Three districts per year
A full year inside your district. Not a slide deck and a flight home before lunch.
Sessions
- ·Four full-day leadership institutes for your full leadership team, one each quarter
- ·Twelve monthly coaching sessions with the superintendent
- ·Six small-group coaching sessions for up to three cabinet members
- ·One full-day EMBER Leadership Workshop for every principal and assistant principal
- ·A six-session Rekindled book study for the cabinet, facilitated personally
- ·Two strategic goal-setting and data review sessions
- ·Four equity audit working sessions
- ·Quarterly vertical alignment meetings across campuses
- ·One end-of-year impact and recommitment session
Deliverables
- ·A written district equity audit with specific, actionable findings
- ·An equity action plan with measurable targets and named accountability
- ·A layered instructional coaching system built for your context
- ·EMBER growth profiles for every leader in the district
- ·An end-of-year impact report documenting leadership growth, culture shifts, and student outcome movement
Access and materials
- ·Direct email access to me for the full twelve months
- ·Priority scheduling for every session and site visit
- ·Thirty days of transition support after the engagement ends
- ·A $10,000 credit toward year two
- ·Signed copies of Rekindled for every leader, up to 100, plus EMBER materials for every campus
What we track together
Principal and teacher retention. Student attendance, particularly for the students your data says you are not yet serving. Discipline referrals, disaggregated. Advanced course enrollment, disaggregated. Family engagement. Achievement growth. EMBER scores across all five domains, before and after.
Who this is not for
The superintendent who wants the certificate without the change. The district that wants an equity framework in its recruitment materials and nothing different on Monday. The leader who is not willing to be seen honestly. I say this plainly because the work requires a specific kind of courage, and without it the engagement produces a report instead of a transformation. I would rather tell you now than take your money and disappoint you in month seven.
Equity Audit
Equity Audit and Action Planning
Call for Quotes · 30 to 60 days
For districts that are not ready for a full year and are ready to tell the truth about their data.
A district-wide audit of systems, policies, and practices. Disaggregated data review and gap identification. A belonging audit covering physical spaces, enrollment, discipline, and enrichment access. A community voice assessment of how families and students actually experience your district. You receive a written findings report with specific recommendations, an action plan with measurable targets, and a presentation of findings to your leadership team.
Optional: ninety days of implementation support after the report lands.
Request an Equity Audit