Strategic Planning & Academic Strategy

Strategy and Growth Strategy

Helping teams set priorities & achieve results

At Stronger Consulting, we partner with educational
organizations to craft forward-thinking, actionable strategic
plans that drive meaningful impact. Our approach combines
robust data analysis, stakeholder engagement, and a deep
commitment to DEI principles using Liberatory design. We
guide your team through a comprehensive 3-5 year strategic
planning process, providing expert facilitation, financial
modeling, and communication strategies to ensure clarity and
sustainability at every step.

The Stronger Approach to Strategy

We empower educational institutions to not only plan but successfully execute strategies that enhance leadership, instruction, and overall academic outcomes.

Our Services Include:

  • Strategic Planning: We co-create long-term strategies to position your organization for success, grounded
    in equity and designed to unlock your team’s full potential.
    • DEI-centered 3-5 year strategic planning
    • Stakeholder engagement, facilitation, financial modeling, and communications mapping
  • Strategy Implementation & Technical Support: Achieve your goals with precision. We provide tailored
    support to align your vision with actionable objectives through OKR and KPI development, alongside
    ongoing progress monitoring and coaching for leaders.
    • Objective & Key Results (OKR) and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) development
    • Strategy alignment coaching, project management, and technical implementation support
  • Academic Priorities & Instructional Strategies: Strengthen your academic vision with strategic guidance.
    Our experts assist in developing instructional leadership, setting priorities for the school year, and ensuring
    both students and staff are set up for success.
    • Principal coaching, instructional leadership strategy, and professional development
    • Curriculum design and support for both adult and student learners
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Scaling and Growth

We complete a review of your strategic plan or assist you in developing a strategic plan if there is not one. We support your organization in overcoming barriers to implementing your plan or pivoting strategies.

Advancing Growth

Assessing your growth readiness and working with you to prepare your organization for mission-advancing growth.

Identifying Resources

Identifying and helping to obtain the resources to make your growth a reality while reducing risks to scaling along the way.

Academic Services

Academic Services

Narrowing the Focus to Achieve Academic Outcomes

We understand that the demands on school systems are always evolving. Student outcomes often don’t improve because you set initiatives in place and have to abandon them to address other needs. We see outcomes improve when a clear strategy is put into action with the discipline to adjust but stick to it until outcomes are achieved.

We work with your team to identify the highest leverage areas of strength to build upon and the greatest potential areas to lead to improved outcomes on your organizational goals. We customize a set of solutions, sequence them for the short-term and long-term, and work alongside you to ensure successful implementation.

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A few words from Kristin, Director of Academic Services

“Many school systems don’t succeed because they are attempting to win at too many priorities at once. Everything is urgent, so it’s hard to leave anything off the plan – ever. But what happens when we prioritize too many things is that at best, we get marginally better at a few things but at worst, we don’t get better at anything.

We exist to partner with schools to develop strategic priorities paired with implementation plans to improve outcomes for kids and families. We begin by getting to know your organization deeply, focusing on points of success and areas of opportunity. Then, our team of seasoned school and system leaders crafts a customized improvement plan tailored specifically to your context and needs. We always aim to leverage the talents and wisdom on your team while adding capacity to achieve greater impact.

The plan begins with a short-term focus area for quick improvements while we align the supports for a more strategic and proactive longer-term plan. Our team works alongside you the entire way, from design and sequencing to implementation and tracking progress. What sets us apart from other organizations who do this work is that we know the best gains happen with embedded implementation support to provide thought partnership and accountability so we provide 1:1 coaching to support your direct work until we see the gains we seek.”

Strong Plans = Strong Outcomes

Our academic team brings decades of experience leading schools and systems to achieve tremendous outcomes for kids. We believe that one of the primary reasons schools and school systems fall short of the promises they make to kids and families is because of a lack of clear prioritization on the things that matter most and a lack of discipline to align systems and capacity to achieving success on those priorities. 

We exist to help schools and school systems think through what those most critical priorities are, how to allocate the resources necessary to achieve them, and the day-to-day work that will lead to successful implementation. With an extremely focused strategy, we believe your school or system can dramatically improve academic outcomes for kids.

Short Term Engagement

Short Term Engagement

  • 3-6 month immediate impact projects
  • 1:1 Coaching options
  • Professional Development Learning Series
  • Includes a dedicated Project Manager and Instructional Coaches
Long Term Engagement

Long Term Engagement

  • 8-12 month strategic solutions
  • Strategic improvement plans for key outcomes
  • Design/redesign, change management, coaching, and implementation support
  • Includes a dedicated Project Director, Project Manager, and Instructional Coaches

Stronger's Approach to Academic Strategy

  • Work collaboratively with your team to align on your goals 
  • Conduct a readiness assessment to determine the areas of strength to build upon and the highest leverage potential areas to focus improvement efforts.
  • Identify a set of short and long-term strategies
  • Immediately tackle the short-term work so that you can achieve a positive impact AND we build out a longer-term and more incremental plan to ensure sustained long-term success.

Most importantly, we work right alongside you and your team with day-to-day support to execute on a comprehensive implementation plan to build the systems and capacity to carry new skills and approaches forward into the future.

Readiness Assessment

Our team of school and system leaders know what it takes for a school to achieve the highest possible academic gains for students. That’s why we’ve designed this self-assessment that prompts you to reflect on key components of your organizational program, assessing strengths and areas of potential opportunity. This assessment results will help us to identify a starting point for building an improvement plan tailored to your goals and school community!