Take teaching to new heights.
We help school systems and states strengthen learning today and design the innovations they'll need tomorrow—grounded in one of the strongest records of proven impact in the field.
Help your educators get results that matter, together.
You want every student to be ready for tomorrow, and the stakes have never felt higher. Their success in a rapidly changing world will depend on what and how well their educators teach them now.
Strengthening teaching practice at scale is more complex than choosing a new curriculum or piloting a program. You’re juggling limited time, competing priorities, and pressure for results. What you need is clarity, aligned leadership, structures, and habits that will last no matter what comes next.
That’s where Leading Educators comes in. We help school systems build the instructional capacity to make student success possible and predictable—on purpose and at scale.
We’ve spent 14 years helping school systems nationwide align leadership, professional learning, and classroom practice—creating the conditions for sustained instructional improvement and pioneering the future of learning.
Most importantly, we don’t just make recommendations—we make them happen.
Every great leader deserves a trusted guide.
Dr. Dawn Brooks DeCosta
Shelly Gray
Jacqueline Haynes
Kevin Polston
Arthur Mola
Dr. Simone Wright
Excellence takes practice. We can help.
We strengthen instructional decisionmaking and impact by expanding what leaders see, how they interpret it, and how they act—together, over time. Hear what our partners have to say:
21 partnerships
with student impact that meet ESSA Tier 3 standards or above from 2015 to 2024—including one Tier 1 study accepted by the What Works Clearinghouse. When resources are scarce, you need a partner you can trust.
1 million+ students
supported with knowledge-rich, future-ready learning since the 2022-2023 school year.
100% of system-level leaders
say Leading Educators has increased their capacity to lead and focus on the conditions for adult learning. That means doing less better.
13,000+ Teachers
influenced to create change in classrooms at 379 schools this year. Teachers are gaining access to vetted curricula, building understanding, and collaborating more frequently around grade-appropriate and relevant lessons.
Programs come and go, systems stay.
Using innovative design and discovery practices, Leading Educators offers tailored, scalable support where it matters most: close to the classroom. Our national network, innovation practices, and best-in-class research enable us to identify what works and make it spread.
K-12 Mathematics
We help school systems create joyful, rigorous, and coherent math instruction where every student learns to think deeply, reason confidently, and solve problems that matter with predictability.
Science of Reading
We help states, districts, and schools to bridge the gap between knowing and doing—helping leaders and teachers build the skills, structures, and confidence to make excellent reading instruction predictable for every student.
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System Instructional Strategy
Do you want to explore what is contributing to your current state? Could your instructional vision use a refresh? Our system advising services help leaders build capacity to take their work to the next level.
Innovation & AI Integration
The world is changing rapidly, and education must keep pace. Our Innovation studio is incubating scalable, coherent solutions for the future of teaching and learning–designing in action alongside educators.
Scaling What Works: Proven Pathways to Results That Matter
40+ district and school system professional learning programs. Robust data.Rigorous methods.
After one of the most ambitious studies of professional learning ever conducted, we found ESSA Tier 3 or higher evidence that 21 Leading Educators-supported programs accelerated student learning. Read what we learned about what works and how it can scale.
You deserve the best. We're setting the standard.
We are proud to have been a certified provider of curriculum-based professional learning since the inaugural Rivet Education Professional Learning Partner Guide.
This designation means we have passed a rigorous third-party evaluation process and provided significant evidence of robust, HQIM-aligned professional learning services. Beyond our partnerships, we’re committed to strengthening the field as cofounders of the Research Partnership for Professional Learning (RPPL) and the Coalition to Reimagine the Teaching Role.
"You can’t do the work alone, and we’ve been really fortunate to work with Leading Educators....Having the chance to customize support the way that we need it to be customized so that our teachers and our leaders are receptive is rare. We don’t find many partners that will make that total bend to what we need. That’s why this relationship with Leading Educators has been so fruitful.”
Leenet Campbell-Williams, Chief Academic Officer at Detroit Public Schools CD
Expanding Horizons
The world that today’s students will inherit is rapidly changing. No matter who they are, we want to ensure they are ready for their next step and beyond.
That’s why our Innovation Studio works alongside educators and leaders to pilot solutions for instructional factors that are critical to student success beyond traditional academics, such as engagement, productive relationships, AI literacy, and durable skills.
Guess less, achieve more.
Designed for you, built to last.
Effective and sustainable change attends to context. But the past decade of work has also helped us identify common recipes for success. Learn what current Leading Educators partners are trying and accomplishing on the path to their best results yet.
“When I compare the schools with and without Leading Educators support, there is a very noticeable difference in outcomes. The LE team is flexible in adjusting as needed to meet the needs of the schools—sharing ideas that are coherent, appropriate, and always challenging instruction to improve.”
Andres Flores, Local District Secondary Math Coordinator at Los Angeles USD
Accelerating learning today, designing what comes next.
Building a better world requires all of us to do our part.
Whether you’re looking to transform outcomes in your district, seek your next career opportunity, or want to donate, there are many ways to support our mission. When teachers have the support to challenge every student to high levels and ignite a love of learning, students rise.
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