Facilitation & Professional Learning

I help school teams have the conversations they've been avoiding.

Twenty years designing and facilitating professional learning for educators — including a decade training New York City school leaders at NYU's Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity, and five years as middle school principal in Austin, TX. Co-author of Protocols in the Classroom.

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Training delivers content. Facilitation builds capacity.

Most professional development hands a team a framework and hopes it sticks. I work the other direction — designing the structures that let a group do its own hard thinking, then teaching them to run those structures without me. The goal is that you stop needing me.

Facilitation for leadership teams

Surfacing real disagreement, working through decisions that keep getting deferred, and building shared accountability that outlasts the meeting.

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Facilitation coaching for leaders

One-on-one and small-group coaching for principals, coaches, and department heads who run meetings and want them to be worth attending. Observation, co-design, debrief, repeat.

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Professional learning design

Building PD that changes practice instead of filling a calendar: professional learning communities, protocol-based structures, and multi-session arcs designed around what your faculty actually wants to do, using their knowledge and expertise.

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