Building Better with Student Voice

Students aren’t just preparing for the future—they’re shaping it. Eskolta helps schools and districts build real partnerships between today’s leaders and tomorrow’s, connecting learners with the communities and careers they care about.

I want that

Youth & Community Engagement Services

Amplify youth voices to drive shared decisions.

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Youth Leadership Programs (YLP)

Build youth-led programs rooted in research, reflection, and action.

  • What’s Included: A modular workshop series that builds capacity to launch and sustain youth leadership programs using models like Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)
  • Ideal Team: Educators, youth program staff, engagement coordinators, student support staff and instructional coaches
  • Time Commitment: 3–6 months, with a flexible hybrid format (in-person, virtual, and asynchronous)
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Intergenerational Fellowships

Create space for multigenerational collaboration and learning.

  • What’s Included: A community of educators and students developing skills to co-design solutions for student success
  • Ideal Team: 2–3 students and educators ready to learn new skills and collaborate on a shared school goal
  • Time Commitment: 3–6 months, hybrid format (in-person, virtual, and asynchronous)
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Work-based Learning Partnerships

Design work-based learning that connects students to meaningful careers.

  • What’s Included: A modular workshop series that equips school and partner staff with the tools, mindset, and strategies to launch and sustain impactful WBL programs
  • Ideal Team: Career and Technical Education (CTE) Coordinators, School Counselors and WBL Coordinators, CBO Staff, Educators integrating career readiness into coursework and workforce development intermediaries
  • Time Commitment: 8–12 weeks, delivered in a hybrid format (in-person, virtual, and asynchronous)
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Community Engagement Network

Build connections between schools and communities.

  • What’s Included: A 6-session, monthly workshop series supporting partners as they identify shared challenges and design tools, practices, and strategies for authentic school–community collaboration
  • Ideal Team: Families, students, educators, district leaders, nonprofit partners and community members
  • Time Commitment: Six 2-hour sessions over six months, offered in a flexible hybrid format (in-person, virtual, and asynchronous)

The Change Your Educators and Students Deserve

“My work with Eskolta and learning how to lead these types of initiatives has helped me reinvigorate my staff for a cause they deemed important and necessary to focus on.”

Eskolta School Improvement Fellows Alum

Executive Director, Institute for Learning

“I think it’s easy to just throw a policy at teachers and to tell them, ‘Do this,’ but what Eskolta has been doing is facilitating that process and fostering our own learning, because just like our students, we are also learners.”

Teacher, Liberation Diploma Plus

“I never felt judged for a mistake I made in the classroom. In this group, I always felt safe to say I messed up today and this is somewhere I could say that. Instead of thinking, ‘Wow, you’re horrible,’ we would ask, ‘Ok, what can we do?’ That energy was really helpful.”

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Landmark High School Network Team

“In my old school, the teachers were not really interested in me and my learning. It’s different here. The teachers give me chances to ask questions and make time to explain things to me. I don’t feel like I have to work alone anymore.”

Student

“Man, this is the first time I’ve felt, like . . . comfortable.”

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The Eskolta Way

Transformation takes strategy and soul, coordination and courage. Whether it’s co-designed school improvement or K-12 education consulting, our work is always:

Collaborative

We work alongside learning communities, facilitating trust and co-leadership.

Holistic

We explore challenges from every angle, listening and looking where others won’t.

Empathetic

We connect with how learning communities feel, not just what they face.

Practical

We build from what educators already do well, keeping their time and capacity in mind.

Let Difference Thrive—and Drive Innovation

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