Who we are · Our team

Our people know education.

engage2learn is led by former educators, and coached by them. The leadership team sets the direction, the partner success team stays beside each district from the first conversation on, and former teachers, principals and district leaders do the coaching.

Meet the leadership team Who coaches
Portraits of twenty-four engage2learn team members in a five-by-five grid around the engage2learn mark
Since 2011Hundreds of districts
Founder & CEO

Shannon K. Buerk

A classroom teacher and an assistant superintendent before she founded engage2learn in 2011, with 28 years of K-12 experience. She built the company to help public schools grow a coaching culture.

Read Shannon’s story
Leadership team

The leadership team.

The team that sets engage2learn’s direction and leads its work with every partner district.

engage2learn consultant Tracey Stokes-Marriott, in a red jacket and glasses, smiles as she greets a partner in a denim jacket at an event
Who coaches

People who have done the job, beside the people doing it now.

  • Former district practitioners

    Teachers, principals and district leaders who have carried the work you are asking your educators to carry.

  • State-certified, with leadership experience

    Coaches with school and district leadership behind them, so they coach the principal as well as the teacher.

  • Inside your schools

    Beside your teachers and leaders, in their classrooms and their PLCs, on the skills the assessment named. Bilingual coaches are available.

  • Partners, not evaluators

    Coaching data opens a conversation about growth, and it is used for coaching alone.

Partner success

The people beside your district, week to week.

The partner success team stays beside each district from the first conversation through the work, so the assessment, the plan and the coaching stay pointed the same way.

The coaching team

The coaches inside partner schools.

Former teachers, principals and district leaders, coaching in partner districts across the country this year.

More of the team

The specialists and facilitators beside them.

Former educators who lead, facilitate and support the work with partner districts.

What it feels like

Coaching that starts from what a teacher already knows.

Our coaches have stood in front of a class, led a school and run a district department. That is why they coach the principal as well as the teacher, and why they start from the experience a teacher already brings.

One thing I loved is that my coach recognized and honored my experience.
Suzanne Davis RileyGrade 4 Dual Language Teacher, Providence Public School District
See the team at work

In a classroom, and in the founder’s own words.

A partner testimonial, filmed in the classroom
Shannon K. BuerkFounder & CEO, engage2learn
Meet them

Talk to the people who would work beside you.

A first conversation is with someone who has led this work in a district. Tell us what you are working on.

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