Amplifying Those Leading & Living the Work

Until insights from the margins make it to the middle, systems will continue to fall short. Our research lifts up the ingenuity of students, educators, and communities building ways to thrive despite being pushed to the edges.

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Research & Advocacy Services

Create learning systems that affirm, include, and endure.

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Data-Guided Leadership

Turn insight into action with collaborative, data-informed leadership.

  • What’s Included: A structured inquiry process that gathers community input, analyzes data, and surfaces recommendations for goal-setting and strategic planning
  • Ideal Team: Programmatic leads
  • Time Commitment: Typically 3–12 months, with flexibility based on scope
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Impact Evaluations

Measure what matters with insight that moves your work forward.

  • What’s Included: Mixed-methods and participatory research gauging where and how progress is leading toward program goals
  • Ideal Team: Initially lead programmatic staff; expands to include feedback from all relevant stakeholders
  • Time Commitment: Typically 6–24 months, depending on project scope and goals
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Best Practice Dissemination

Share what’s working, so more schools can thrive.

  • What’s Included: Collect learnings, concrete tools, and stories of impact to spread effective practices across the education system
  • Ideal Team: Program leads, communications staff, and frontline practitioners who can speak to what works and why it matters
  • Time Commitment: Typically 3 months to 1 year

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.”

Teacher
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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