What if
There was a way you could adjust your perspective and experience more joy in your work?
There was a way you could expand your professional network?
There was a way to increase your effectiveness as a leader?
We equip you to embrace your calling with greater skill
Elevate2Excellence Services
Working alongside you, we offer customized professional learning services
In 2020 the Learning Policy Institute revealed that 42% of surveyed principals indicated they were considering leaving their position. Among the top reasons listed were heavy workloads, limited support, high stress, and isolation. Without support, principals face the inevitable reality of burnout. And the sustained stress can lead to a decline in physical health, relational health, and mental health.
Whether you’re a new principal or a seasoned principal, we can provide you with the resources you need to thrive! We provide a non-threatening and trusting space in which you can ask questions and confidentially receive support about needs in your local context. We can help you manage your complex role and preserve your health and personal relationships. Don’t wait until it’s too late!
One of the most daunting aspects of school leadership is facing crisis without support and appropriate protocols and policies. As a result, principals spend precious time seeking advice and resources while under intense pressure and scrutiny. Rather than waiting for a crisis to arrive, why not be pro-active and equip yourself with sound strategies and resources? With the right support in place you can make courageous and principled decisions based on best practices. You can avoid fearful and emotional responses and be tempted to cave to the pressure to please rather than to lead with courage.
Let us help you prepare to face and deal with crisis with greater confidence and less stress. Learn how to document, report, and when to consult.
Thorough, meaningful, and regular staff evaluations rarely occur in independent faith-based schools. This is usually due to a lack of time, expertise, and complex relationship barriers.
With our help, you can acquire new tools alongside a transparent, collaborative process. Let us provide unbiased, third-party professional feedback with actionable growth priorities. Develop a robust evaluation process for your school which will lead to improved student learning.
School principals are often focused on the urgent day-to-day needs in their schools and rarely have time to evaluate and measure school programs and processes through data collection and analysis.
Why not let us help you unpack your school data and provide you with the tools you need to make strategic system improvements. Move your organization forward with a new framework.
Do you find yourself deferring to policy manuals when you need to make important decisions? Or are they so ancient you need to dust them off? We know you are extremely busy and do not have a time to dive into the policy minutia.
Let us help you strengthen and bring your organizational policies up-to-date and align them with best practices.
Small-school principals are often thrust into their role completely unprepared for the multiple hats and the list of responsibilities a mile long (often including teaching). They are expected to quickly learn (on the job) how to prioritize tasks, communicate effectively, lead with enthusiasm and vision, manage HR situations, switch gears when crises and conflict arise, all while maintaining their cool under pressure. With the all-consuming stressful hours and limited support, the potential for disillusionment and burnout is high.
Let us help you break your job down, learn how to delegate and streamline tasks. With our expert advice, we can guide you to focus on critical priorities and develop systems of operation. Ease your burden and let us help you thrive, not just survive.
When you were hired as principal, did you know your success would largely hinge on your ability to effectively interface with, and manage people? Effective HR requires a skilled principal to motivate, encourage, inspire, train, recruit, mentor, and recognize and address conflict before it spirals out of control.
Let us serve as a fresh set of eyes to help you identify your people-needs and equip you with the skills to build a cohesive, mission-focused team. We provide job analysis, organizational structure reviews, and coaching on building your deam team.
Are you struggling to inspire optimism and action in your teachers so they can deliver more effective lessons? Are you finding it difficult to establish a culture of engagement and commitment to learning and improvement? Instructional leadership is a top priority for most principals, yet they often lack the time and resources required to design and implement school-wide PD plans that lead to improved student learning outcomes.
Why not let us help you identify fresh instructional goals, in alignment with your school mission and strategic plans. Let us help you develop and implement meaningful PD plans which will create that culture of collective responsibility, set high expectations, allow for the regular examination of practice, and promote mutual accountability for student success and school-wide effectiveness.
Principals understand the important link between accountability and organizational improvement. They recognize that audits and accreditation visits can aid them in achieving objectives and goals, resulting in significant school growth. However, the audit/accreditation season brings on a significant increase in workload for principals. The work leading up to the audit or accreditation visit can be consuming and exhausting.
Let us support you in your preparation for accountability season. Let us assist you in gathering documentation, creating schedules, delegating responsibilities, developing continuous improvement plans, data analysis, etc. Let us help you embrace the power of accountability in moving your organization forward.
Have you been putting off a professional writing project or completing a grant application? Are you struggling to find the time to create content for your website, new school initiatives, or marketing plans?
Let us help you design and develop new content to improve your programming. We can do the leg-work. Take a load off and let us be your content creators!
Does your school board have the tools and training needed to provide effective oversight, vision and direction? Do they have the training and the knowledge to use your school data to make critical decisions on school growth, attrition, student achievement, and financial forecasting?
Let us help you deepen your understanding of school governance, operations, and strategic planning so you can work effectively with your school board to accomplish your goals.
Are you looking for PD that is inclusive, hope-filled, interactive, and fun? Our workshops center around collaborative analysis of real-world cases, and where possible, group interactions facilitated by peer leaders. Solutions and problem-solving approaches are shared and critiqued. Our goals is to increase interactions in learning and model professional practice. Workshop titles include:
- “Leaping From Teacher to School Principal: Thinking Like A Leader”
- “Becoming a Master Priority Juggler: Prioritizing and Time Management”
- “The Plague of Loneliness: Finding Safe Support”
- “Building Bridges: Managing Conflict and Crisis”
- “Exceeding Reasonable Expectations Without Burning Out”
- “I Didn’t Sign Up For This! Firing to Improve Quality”
- “Handling Abuse Allegations: When to Document, Consult, and Report”
- “SOS – the Auditors are Coming!”
- “Creating Inspiring Strategic Improvement Plans”
- “Administrator Trauma Response to Sexual Abuse Disclosures”
- “Help! I’m Afraid of my Parents! Handling Parents with Poise and Confidence”
- “Overhauling Academic Programming to Improve Student Learning”
- “Managing Up When Dealing with Your School Board”
- “Creating a Spiritually-Inspiring Culture”
- “Cultural Sensitivity in the School”
Book now to increase your administrator toolbox and professional network.
Why do you need an education leadership consultant?
Without skilled and healthy principals, schools struggle to maintain focus on their mission and create healthy environments where teachers can succeed. Education leadership consultants have a deep understanding of the challenges and critical priorities principals must operate within to be successful. They provide a confidential and non-threatening space in which principals can grow and develop.
“Successful leaders require more comprehensive perspectives. They need multiple lenses and skills in reframing—looking at old problems in a new light, as well as confronting new challenges with different tools and reactions. Reframing expands understandings, responses, timing, and styles that managers apply to problems. It helps them translate good intentions into effective action.”
Lee G. Bolman & Terrence E. Deal
Principals matter
They make a huge difference to a schools’ success.
Move from a place of survival and exhaustion to a place of strength and joy!
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“For I will give you abundant water for your parched fields. And I will pour out my Spirit and my blessing on your children. They shall thrive like watered grass, like willows on a riverbank.” Isaiah 44:3-4
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