Consulting
Grounded in our holistic design and systems thinking approach, we work with your school to surface the smartest ideas and implement them successfully - without breaking your budget.
Ways we can help
There are many ways our creative and deeply experienced consultants can help your school move forward. We can tailor a consulting engagement to meet your specific needs, or draw upon one of these standard offerings.
Identifying a Winning Path: Re-evaluating School Priorities
Pre-COVID playbooks do not work in a COVID world. Your school needs to rethink what is important and reprioritize to meet those needs.
Reopening in a Time of Volatility and Uncertainty
With new information coming out daily, planning for the fall can be an overwhelming exercise. There are scores of reopening models, but only some are right for your school. A simple, yet robust process is needed to help your community through the complexity. That's our 2-5-10 process.
Great Management in Times of Crisis: Building Your Distributed Leadership Capacity
In a time of crisis, the model of the single leader shouldering most of the leadership burden is unsustainable and destined for failure. A well structured and thoughtful distributed leadership structure is key to making it through the challenges.
Building Adaptability Quotient (AQ) for All Learners: Students and Faculty
In these volatile and uncertain times, a school community's Adaptability Quotient (AQ) is the characteristic that will inform how well that community will confront ongoing challenges. Building AQ means building for your future.
I have been extremely impressed with the high quality of EXPLO Elevate from our very first encounter. I reached out with a proposed project, and EXPLO Elevate responded with resources and a network that really helped our school move forward. I'm forever grateful!
Donna Milani Luther Head of School, Inly School
How we work with you
We are flexible in our approach and can engage with your school in a variety of ways.
Strategic Planning and Consulting
- Need help on a new strategy or program?
- We can assist you in areas such as school vision, strategic planning, program design and implementation, and measurement and evaluation.
Workshops and Retreats
- Have an important workshop, retreat, or critical meeting that must go flawlessly?
- Our experienced facilitators can design and facilitate workshops with any stakeholder group, including administration, faculty, boards, parents, and students.
Coaching and Leadership Development
- Need a trusted advisor to navigate a challenging decision or to help develop your leadership team?
- Our team of experienced educators, including a former Head of School, can provide coaching, guidance, and leadership development.
Assessments and Diagnostics
- Not sure you know where to begin?
- An on-site assessment or diagnostic of school health or culture can help you identify and prioritize your greatest needs.
Custom Research and Reports
- Need data to support a major initiative? Need to highlight your school’s best practices?
- Our research staff can tackle customized research and develop in-depth high-quality reports suitable for internal or external stakeholders.
Customized Professional Learning
- Not finding the professional learning opportunities your team needs?
- We can tailor an existing professional learning opportunity or work with you to develop an entirely custom program for your leadership or faculty.