
Taking Education Forward
Educators want all their students to become confident, lifelong learners—no matter what they look like, where they come from, or how much money their family has. You want to help them build upon their passion with vetted materials, smarter collaboration, and proven practices. We’re helping partners across the country make that happen.
We are also looking ahead to what’s around the corner. Our Innovation Lab is designing, piloting, and testing new services and tools focused on the needs emerging from a more globalized and technologically connected world.
Featured: Value Add of Technology on Teaching
Our core work in literacy and math is achieving rare results and proving that acceleration is possible with an effective strategy and aligned support.
At the same time, young people face a dramatically changing world. Students will need a whole new set of skills to be successful in the future of work that goes beyond current standards. Our Innovation portfolio is developing new supports alongside current educators, school systems, and global leaders to get a head start on the challenges of tomorrow.
One such project is the Value Add of Technology on Teaching (VATT) framework, created alongside Google for Education, to help educators thoughtfully integrate standards-aligned instruction and edtech like AI.

100% of Senior Leaders say Their Partnership Is Meeting Their Goals
Choosing to bring in a partner takes trust and vulnerability. We promise to get you to a place where you won’t need to bring someone like us in again.
We are committed to getting great results and ensuring our partners are ready to sustain new habits and systems without us.

100% of partners say
Leading Educators is *always* reliable, outcomes-oriented, and completes projects with an extremely high bar for excellence.

100% of partners say
they *always* consider Leading Educators to have the expertise to guide them through their work. They believe staff are comfortable advocating for what they believe is the best way forward.

94% of partners say
Leading Educators is *always* flexible and adaptive; "they know when to push me and suggest solutions what a project is off track."
Do you find yourself wondering, “Are we doing the right thing? What else should we be considering?” You aren’t alone.
When you partner with Leading Educators, you join a national network of bold, visionary school systems that are finding nimble, scalable solutions to the challenges you face. We use our proximity to researchers and decades of design experience to provide what you need at the right time.
We exist to help school systems grow their people and put real opportunity within reach for all students right now. We look past simple answers to address root causes, leverage evidence, and empower the people who make up the system to spark sustainable progress.
Offering both Readiness and Direct Impact partnerships, we specialize in the following types of support.
We provide highly customized services steeped in a system’s specific context, priorities, and needs. We help partners create (or reframe) an instructional vision and aligned professional learning; align roles, responsibilities, and resources to a coherent instructional improvement strategy; and establish continuous improvement at the classroom, school, and system levels and build system leader capacity to sustain it.
We help school system leaders vet, select, and implement high-quality instructional materials using a comprehensive vision for excellent and equitable instruction. We facilitate ongoing internalization and use of specific standards-aligned instructional practices beyond unboxing.
Using various customized delivery models, we design and implement professional learning systems aligned to high-quality curricula that facilitate continuous improvement in teaching while building the capacity of district counterparts to implement these systems beyond the partnership. Supports include content-specific workshops for teachers and instructional leaders, capacity building for coaches and content leaders, design of school-based continuous improvement cycles aligned to specific district instructional priorities, and train-the-trainer learning experiences in all of the above.
Our team of experienced educators and coaches supports new and veteran instructional leaders to facilitate collaboration, planning, and ongoing adult learning around high-quality curricula, instructional practices, and equity. We also coach school and system leaders on building the conditions for impactful continuous improvement.
We assess the resources, structures, and system- and school-level conditions needed to support continuous instructional improvement. We develop tailored action plans for partners, targeting how they can strengthen these conditions and resource allocation over time.
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