Helping individual leaders, schools and districts.

Principal Coaching

In coaching principals/school leaders I am struck by how often new leaders find themselves in “figure it out” environments; I get it.  Superintendents and Assistant Superintendents are often too busy to spend the required time needed to coach up every new administrative hire!  

Invest in your leaders early and often. Our tiered system offers options of weekly, bi-weekly or monthly school visits with regular check-ins via text, call or email.

Strategic Planning

Sometimes leaders jump into planning without asking the right questions or without naming the desired end result. Or worse, they go right to implementation without a good plan.

Strategic planning sessions are custom designed to fit your needs; it could be the school leader needs planning support around an important staff meeting introducing systemic changes, or it could be the school leader wants to enlist school staff to embark on a multi-year school changing journey but doesn’t know where to start.

Let us support this work!

Areas We May Be Able to Support You

  • Communication 

  • Mentoring of School Leadership

  • Handbook and policy completion and review

  • Hiring and Searches

  • Program Evaluation (athletics, facilities, Special Education, English language learners, etc.)

  • School Restructuring

  • School Committee, staff, parent relationships

  • School Building Projects; many years working on MSBA projects

  • Staff Mediations

  • Staff Evaluation

  • Temperature readings on Culture and Climate, including restorative practices, discipline codes etc.

Having a veteran administrator, mentor and coach has been invaluable as a new principal.

Ryan Gendron, Principal, Wilmington High School

During Dana’s tenure with Norwood Public Schools, he has been a crucial member of  district-wide initiatives around: a diversity, equity, and inclusion audit; a new school building  project; a policy audit; mental health support for students; strategic planning; and special  education. He quickly became someone that the administration and school committee relied on  and trusted.


Teresa Stewart, School Committee Chair