You can’t be in every school. Your plan can.
The strategy is right and the board approved it. Then it has to reach thirty classrooms you’ll never visit in the same week. engage2learn builds the plan with your community, coaches alongside your educators to carry it into every school, and shows you and your board where it stands, all year.
Every school’s problems end up on your desk.
A superintendent answers for every school at once. Here is what we hear first, and what comes off the desk when one partner runs the cycle.
On the superintendent’s desk
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Initiatives inherited from the last administration, all still running.
One strategic plan, built with your community, that says what stays, what stops and who owns each goal.
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Thirty schools, and you can be in one of them today.
Former district practitioners coach inside your schools, carrying the plan into classrooms.
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A board that wants to see progress before the year-end meeting.
Progress by goal and by school in GroweLab, ready for any board meeting.
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Work that has to survive the next leadership change.
Your own leaders and coaches learn to run the cycle, so the capacity stays in the district.
One school year, from the plan to the board table.
Scroll through a superintendent’s year. Each season shows what you would see from engage2learn at that point.
Three offerings that fit the job.
Most superintendents start with the plan. The listening and the tracking make it hold.
- Planning & Design
Strategic Design
A strategic plan built with your community and tracked as it runs, not a binder on a shelf.
- Students, staff and families in the room
- Goals with owners and measures
- Tracked in GroweLab from day one
- Assessments & Software
The Data Triangle
Students, staff and families answer the same questions, so you plan from where they agree and where they don’t.
See how it works - Assessments & Software
GroweLab
The plan, the coaching and the progress in one place, by goal and by school.
See how it works
Superintendents on what one partner changed.
It wasn’t cookie-cutter. It was individualized for each district community, and that’s what we needed. We wanted something that was just for us.
“The engage2learn coaching has been an absolutely critical piece to improving the implementation of our strategies and the things we are trying to accomplish.”
“It has definitely been a super-positive experience. Through engage2learn, we were able to provide an opportunity for our leaders to grow.”
Questions leaders ask.
Who is engage2learn, and how is it different from a vendor who sells one piece?
engage2learn is one partner that runs the whole cycle of educator effectiveness itself: diagnose, design, coach, and connect to community. Most districts buy those pieces from several vendors; with one partner, the assessment, the plan and the coaching all aim at the same educator skills, and your cabinet works with one team rather than several.
What does the first conversation involve?
The first conversation is about the student-outcome gap you want to close and what you have already tried. There is no pitch deck. We listen, ask what your data and your schools are showing, and suggest where to start, often with an assessment, because the assessment comes first.
How do we know it is working this year?
Classroom practice is tracked in GroweLab as it improves. Walkthroughs, coaching cycles and educator growth show up during the year, by school, so progress is visible long before the end-of-year results.
How does a board see progress without reading a binder?
The plan’s goals, owners and progress show by school on one screen in GroweLab, so a board sees where the plan stands without a binder. Strategic Design builds the plan to be tracked this way from the start.
Bring the plan you have, or the one you need.
Tell us where your strategy stands and what your board is asking, and we’ll show you how it reaches every school this year.
