For Schools
We help schools to identify and remove barriers to their organization’s educational success.
Our educational guidance helps schools achieve peak performance and retain students, faculty, staff, and community support.
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Strategic Consulting for Independent Schools: Empowering Enrollment Stability and Growth
Strong and stable enrollment is essential for the health and future sustainability of any independent school.
Independent schools can stabilize and grow enrollment by developing well-defined applicant profiles and proactively meeting the needs of current families, aka super-serving current families. These profiles allow schools to create an effective vision for future enrollment informed by past success. A school becomes more stable and healthy when they understand and build about their success and strengths. Clear profiles also allow a school head to direct resources toward student success – thus super-serving families.
Our expertise draws from years of experience at educational intersections.
Featured Services
STRATEGIC PLANNING, SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION, & CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Strategy, transformation, and change management are three of our favorite terms at Plumewood Educational Partners.
We excel at helping schools, school boards, leadership teams, and instructional teams plan for their future, achieve their goals, transform their learning environments, and manage the challenges and blessings that come with school change.
Our strategic thinking, system-wide school experience, and relationship orientation make us the perfect partners for strategic planning, transformation, and change management.
SPECIAL EDUCATION & STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES
We leverage our years of special education expertise—from the classroom to building and district offices—to help you design and refine your special education practices, delivering the best results for children, teachers, and building leadership.
Our licensed teachers, intervention specialists, and building administrators understand how children learn, how schools work, best practices in special education delivery, and the laws governing special education and accommodation plans.
We will work with you and everyone involved to make sure your school succeeds!
ENROLLMENT CONSULTATION
We love helping schools exceed their enrollment goals and achieve their growth potential!
We work 1:1 with directors of enrollment management and heads of school to create data-based applicant profiles to ensure they are marketing to and enrolling their target students.
Knowing who you can serve best is half the battle!
We also help schools define the systems of support needed to maintain enrollment and support sustainable school growth, including the development or expansion of a student services department.
MENTORING FOR NEW & EMERGING LEADERS
As seasoned school leaders and teachers, our team brings a wealth of experience to all mentorship conversations.
We’re happy to work on specific issues with new and emerging leaders and our guidance is always just a phone call, text, or email away.
Why is our advice so effective? It’s because of our experience in the classroom and principal’s office.
THE CLASSROOM RESET
This high-value service is only offered by Plumewood Ed. Partners.
We bring our diverse skills and talents to schools to help reset the learning environment when things have gone awry.
We diagnose the barriers to learning within a classroom and provide direct assistance, customized resources, and professional development to help teachers, support staff, students, parents, and administrators set, reset, and maintain a productive learning environment in their classroom.
This short-term and intensive process is solution-oriented and strengths-based. We will look at classroom procedures, behavior expectations, instructional routines, learning needs of the entire class, and teachers strengths to move you from challenge to celebrations of learning!
Follow-up services and school-wide PD are also available add-ons to this service.
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING & CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Every minute of classroom instruction counts!
We train schools on proven Tier 1, 2, and 3 strategies that help classrooms and school buildings run efficiently and remain effective for all students.
We are well-versed in many difference approaches to social-emotional learning and classroom management. We often present blended models to meet student needs and teachers or school preferences.
Our strategies help teachers to teach and students to learn by creating consistency across classrooms delivering the right social emotional and classroom management strategies at the right time!
SCHOOL POLICY: DISCIPLINE & BEHAVIOR
It’s our pleasure to review and revise school disciplinary practices to ensure behavior and discipline are managed equitably for all children.
We are versed in multiple approaches to school discipline and behavior management including:
Positive Behaviors Interventions & Supports (PBIS)
Restorative Practices
Positive Discipline
Assertive Discipline
We also assist schools to ensure that policy is written and followed according to due process and fair process legal requirements — avoiding frustration, distraction, and legal fees.
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY TRAINING
(Ex. Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, Predictive Text, etc.)
Assistive technology, like Read&Write for Google Chrome, is an absolute game-changer for people who struggle with independent reading, writing, and focus.
We train children, teens, and adults (teachers, aids, and parents) to be more effective and independent readers, writers, students, and workers.
We Specialize in Professional Excellence!
Special Education
Understanding 504 Plans, ETR/IEP, and Private Evaluations
Utilizing Evaluation Data
Serving Students with Developmental and Learning Differences Autism Spectrum Disorder Sensory Processing Disorder
- ADHD - Dyslexia
- Dyscalculia
- Dysgraphia
- Specific Learning Disabilities (Reading, Writing, & Math)
- Twice-Exceptional (2E)
- Complex Profiles (Academic, Behavioral, Social, & Mental Health)Special Education Instructional Design
- Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 interventions
Post-Graduation Planning for Students with Learning Differences
Special Education Due Process
General Education
Data-Based Decision Making
Student Placement
Differentiated Instruction
Teacher Training
Accommodation Plans
ADHD/Executive Dysfunction
Anxiety/Depression
Social-Emotional Learning & Interventions
School-Home Partnership
Gifted & Twice-Exceptional Students
Intervention and Tutoring
1:1 Mentoring
Building Administrators
Enrollment Managers
Instructional Coaches
Intervention Specialists
Teacher Leaders
Enrollment & Retention
Data-based “Profile of an Applicant”
Optimizing the Enrollment Process
Data-driven Enrollment Management and Retention
Authentic Parent Communication, Engagement, and Partnership
We support all schools , public and private, and individuals within a school.
We specialize in people, process, and product and are absolutely wild about maximizing time, talent, and treasure!
And if that wasn’t enough alliteration for you, we work in three concrete stages:
1. Learn
2. Layout
3. Launch!
Every journey starts with a first step.
Schedule your initial consultation today.