Designing Schools Where Difference Drives Transformation

One-size-fits-all can’t contain the full spectrum of student and educator brilliance. Whether you’re a 50,000-student district or a 50-student transfer school, our approach to school design produces solutions that work—because your students, families, and educators shaped them.

I want that

School Design Services

Create learning systems that affirm, include, and endure.

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Needs Assessment

See the full picture, so you can build from your strengths.

  • What’s Included: 1–3 day on-site visit to gather qualitative and quantitative insights on school strengths and growth areas
  • Ideal Team: School leaders and enthusiastic staff lead planning; the whole community contributes
  • Time Commitment: 2–4 days total, including prep, visit, and share-out
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Community of Practice Facilitation

Grow together, lead together—one conversation at a time.

  • What’s Included: Workshop series led by a coach to support shared reflection and growth
  • Ideal Team: Educators connected by role, content area, or a shared challenge
  • Time Commitment: 90 minutes per month for the duration of the project
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Curriculum Design

Design learning that meets the moment and every student.

  • What’s Included: Targeted coaching to strengthen learning goals, assessments, and instructional materials
  • Ideal Team: Small groups of educators within the same content areas
  • Time Commitment: 60-90 minute sessions, held weekly or biweekly
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Improvement Project

Tackle what matters most with structure and tools that support big change.

  • What’s Included: Guided improvement cycle to address a key challenge through research-informed design and testing
  • Ideal Team: A dedicated team of educators and one administrator
  • Time Commitment: Yearlong arc with 60–90 minute biweekly sessions + occasional coaching check-ins

The Change Your Educators and Students Deserve

“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

“I really enjoyed looking at data and going directly to the students. I constantly ask for student opinions, feedback, and hold student focus groups to gather data. We have redesigned our interview/enrollment process based on their families’ experiences.”

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“I remember the day the adults were thinking we would focus on conferencing, and a student said, ‘No, we should do something about how students are graded.’ He checked us. The conferencing protocol we do and the way kids get to advocate for their grade grew out of that conversation.”

Teacher
Landmark High School Network Team

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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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