Administrative Partnerships
Partner with a fractional administrator who can devote focused attention to all aspects of the academic experience while maintaining a regular presence on campus and offering consistent support. Shape and shepherd your faculty and translate your mission and vision into faithful, sustainable action. Contact Andrew Elizalde to explore the scope, schedule, and structure that can best serve your school.
Leadership Development
Partner with a fractional administrator who can develop current and emerging academic leaders through regular campus visits featuring observations with feedback, direct support with project and change management, on-site training, individual and small group mentorship sessions, and consistent access to one-on-one coaching calls. Develop leaders who are committed to lifelong learning, speak with humility and conviction, pay attention to the needs of others, show empathy while maintaining high expectations, manage projects and change well, build consensus effectively, get things done completely and on time, and equip teachers with the tools and resources they need to flourish in the classroom. Contact Andrew Elizalde to explore the scope, schedule, and structure that can best serve your school.
Cultural
Transformation
Partner with a fractional administrator who can implement strategies to transform your faculty culture by building trust, increasing transparency, inspiring collaboration, inviting constructive criticism, and celebrating growth. Strategies include facilitating SWOT analysis, composing or refining a master teacher profile, establishing norms of informal observations by peers and supervisors, introducing Critical Friends Tuning Protocols, launching Lesson Studies, reforming file sharing infrastructure, harmonizing meeting rhythms and agendas with your mission and vision, leading book discussions, and encouraging regular joy-filled fellowship. Contact Andrew Elizalde to explore the scope, schedule, and structure that can best serve your school.
Pedagogical
Workshops
Partner with a fractional administrator who can train teachers how to employ the pedagogy native to the liberal arts tradition. Training occurs primarily through on-site workshops featuring self-examination, reflection, thanksgiving, direct instruction, practice, brainstorming, commitment to action, and accountability. Instructional strategies include but are not limited to teaching through Socratic discussion, close reading, reading with metacognition, shared inquiry, collaborative problem-solving, and experimental design. Contact Andrew Elizalde to explore the scope, schedule, and structure that can best serve your school.
Curriculum
Design & Reform
Partner with a fractional administrator who can improve the curation, articulation, coherence, and implementation of your K-12 curriculum. Introduce the Understanding by Design framework to ensure that desired results, assessment evidence, and learning plans are well-aligned so that students acquire not only knowledge and skills but also genuine and enduring understanding. Contact Andrew Elizalde to explore the scope, schedule, and structure that can best serve your school.
Supporting
Exceptional Students
Partner with a fractional administrator who can introduce and refine support systems that can serve the needs of your current and emerging exceptional students - whether they be students who struggle with learning differences or students who consistently find themselves under-challenged. Develop protocol for identifying the needs of students and composing corresponding documentation. Express commitments to particular accommodations or modifications as well as limits to the scope of support. Grow a network of local specialists who understand and support your mission. Build relationships with other schools who may be able to better serve students with incredibly unique needs. Contact Andrew Elizalde to explore the scope, schedule, and structure that can best serve your school.
Policy & Protocol Solutions
Partner with a fractional administrator who can build, document, and refine systems that establish clear academic policies and protocol to support your mission and protect your school against missional drift. Reform an existing parent and student handbook or compose a new handbook all together. Introduce changes winsomely to your community with both empathy, integrity, compassion, and conviction. Contact Andrew Elizalde to explore the scope, schedule, and structure that can best serve your school.