CONSULTING SERVICES - K-12 Schools and School Districts
"You gave us invaluable recommendations which we can put into effect to improve performance while reducing costs. . . ." - Dr. Ronni Ephraim, Chief Instructional Officer, Elementary, Los Angeles Unified School District.
In today's economy, schools and school districts face greater challenges than ever before, challenges such as:
- Inadequate funding or inefficient use of resources
- Failure to meet No Child Left Behind (NCLB) standards
- Low student test scores and / or achievement
- Technology not aligned with instruction
- High dropout or suspension rates, or low matriculation
- Low employee morale resulting in high faculty / staff turnover
- Lack of strong leadership at all ranks and / or leadership capacity
- Inability to find qualified teachers
- Low performing teachers or a need for implementing teacher testing or improvement programs
- Lack of accountability throughout the culture
- Less than expected results from key instructional programs or initiatives
- Lack of innovation or diversity
- Inability to implement key programs because of poor communications among constituencies and stakeholder groups such as
- Parents
- Faculty
- Administration
- Unions
- Political / governments
- Businesses
With his expertise and experience in a broad range of organizations and disciplines, Dr. McNaughton transforms organizations by removing obstacles to educating students and creating a culture of shared vision, cooperation, exceptional performance and accountability. When students, faculty, administrators, the community, and parents - all stakeholders - feel valued, respected, engaged and empowered, they are able to fully participate and be successful in educating students - their primary job!
Some of the key areas in which Dr. McNaughton can help your district or school include:
- Organizational transformation and change
- Organizational redesign
- Strategic planning and implementation
- Instructional strategy alignment
- Program review and improvement
- Culture change
- Leadership development, training, coaching, and capacity building
- Organization and programatic review / assessment, and improvement
- Improving hiring practices
- Leadership training at multiple levels and train-the-trainer
- Organizational efficiency (including finding new sources of revenue and cost cutting)
- Public-private partnerships
Please see some of the results that schools / school districts have seen as a result of Dr. McNaughton's consulting, facilitation and coaching.
