Our Services
Transforming Educational Leadership for Lasting Impact, Your Pathway to Exceptional Outcomes
We offer best-in-class, high-touch leadership coaching and implementation programs designed to equip school and district leaders with the tools they need to lead exceptional schools.
By providing a strategic and comprehensive partnership for districts to achieve rapid and sustainable school improvement, BRES empowers districts to boldly transform underperforming campuses. Our research-driven approach is designed to achieve transformational results within 1-2 years, while targeted supports ensure successful HQIM adoption and implementation, strong campus and classroom culture, and insightful data-based decision making.
For districts committed to an all-in approach to systemic school improvement, BRES delivers critical implementation support and a proven track record of results.
Our Approach
We partner with schools and systems to implement impactful change through a collaborative and customized approach.
This includes:
Customized Learning
Tailoring professional development to your leadership team’s specific needs and aligning with your vision to provide the support needed to achieve transformational impact.
Collaborative Coaching
Working closely with your team weekly or bi-weekly, acting as both a coach and an extension of your leadership team, as we conduct classroom observations, data analysis, and support the facilitation of planning and data meetings.
Metrics-Based Approach
Grounding our work in data and research-based best practices to set observable goals and drive measurable results.
Resource Provision & Real-Time Support
Providing a comprehensive toolkit of resources and real-time coaching, while celebrating successes along the way.
Our Programs
BRES Offers two dynamic flagship programs:
Campus-Based Coaching
We offer a high-touch, high-impact, and results-oriented leadership development program for school leadership teams, including metrics-based coaching and customized, intimate professional development experiences. We work closely with your team weekly or bi-weekly, acting as both a coach and an extension of your leadership team.
Executive Coaching for Principal Managers
We offer tailored coaching designed to empower Principal Managers in effectively leading their teams through strategic and data-based decision making, and proven, results-oriented coaching moves.
What are the big rocks?
Big Rock Prioritization
& Implementation
Vision:
Confirming leaders build and align their calendars to ensure they are spending their time on the Big Rock priorities that drive student achievement, prioritize teacher development and support, and promote engaging and joyful academic culture.
What Success Looks Like:
75% of the instructional leadership team members’ time is spent inspecting and coaching Big Rock implementation.
Major Components:
- Time hijackers identified and delegated
- Instructional Leadership Team calendars created weekly with Big Rock action items
- School leader plans their calendar to coach teachers/staff and coach the instructional leadership team, via distributed leadership
Classroom Rigor:
Planning and Execution / HQIM Implementation
Vision:
Building the capacity of instructional team members to implement rigorous curriculum and instructional materials through the planning and leadership of instructional planning meetings or PLCs.
Supporting schools or districts with an adopted instructional resource or High-Quality Instructional Material (HQIM), as well as schools without a standardized resource, through developing systems for curriculum implementation, analyzing state standards, and internalizing or planning for rigorous lessons.
What Success Looks Like:
The instructional leadership team facilitates planning meetings and teachers leave with exemplar rigorous, aligned, internalized, and rehearsed lessons.
Major Components:
- For exemplar lessons, highest leverage teacher actions identified
- For exemplar lessons, standards prioritized, scoped, and analyzed / curriculum internalized
- Rigorous and aligned exemplar lessons planned, practiced, and performed
Student Culture
Vision:
Developing an engaging student experience through the creation of inclusive and rigorous classroom environments while fostering safe and purposeful student culture in community areas: arrival, hallway transitions, lunch, and dismissal.
What Success Looks Like:
90 to 100% of students authentically engaged in classrooms and transitioning to/from communal areas safely and punctually.
Major Components:
- Real-time coaching on words and actions to engage students and ensure all students are on-task learning in classrooms
- Real-time coaching on words and actions to ensure students are walking safely and purposefully to/from communal areas
Observation & Feedback (O&F)
Vision:
Building the capacity of leadership team members to plan and execute classroom observations and feedback conferences with teachers that both drive improvements in instructional practice as well as foster strong, trusting, collaborative relationships that increase teacher engagement and investment.
What Success Looks Like:
Instructional leadership team observes classroom instruction and facilitates teacher feedback sessions ensuring major components listed below.
Major Components:
- Highest leverage, bite-sized teacher action to upgrade identified during lesson observation
- During feedback session, teacher identifies highest leverage, bite-sized action to upgrade, teacher scripts and practices action
- Leader fosters psychologically safe environments conducive to adult learning
- Instructional leadership team calendars and plans for follow up
Data-Driven Instruction (DDI)
Vision:
Building the capacity of instructional team members to plan and execute data meetings.
By
Planning for the needs of diverse learners, maximizing student access to grade-appropriate content, and designing differentiated learning strategies that drive student achievement.
What Success Looks Like:
The instructional leadership team facilitates data meetings during which teachers analyze data and leave with re-teach lessons for the period of one to two weeks.
Major Components:
- Standards prioritized and analyzed based on assessment data
- Bite-sized student gaps identified: conceptual and procedural
- Rigorous and aligned re-teach lessons planned and practiced
Ready to Make a Difference?
Get in touch with us and learn more about our innovative processes, our expansive services, and how our team of experts can help your organization create success.