Educational Program Development
Secondary Education Strategies will work with your organization to create educational programs tailored to meet your specific needs. These programs will incorporate education and industry standards and leverage your organization’s resources through the establishment of partnerships with local and national leaders in business, industry, and higher education. During the program development phase, Secondary Education Strategies will work to develop monitoring and evaluation tools to track data required for state and internal approvals. Secondary Education
Strategies will outline capital, human, and other resources necessary for optimal program operation and design training programs to ensure continued operational success.
2ES will help your organization:
Create educational programs
Tailor programs to specific needs
Incorporate education and industry standards
Create partnerships (industry, university)
Develop processes for state and internal approvals
Develop monitoring and evaluation tools
Recommend resources (e.g., staffing)
Create staff development and training programs
Determine furniture and equipment needs
Identify staffing requirements (job description, necessary certifications, criteria)
Establish enrollment criteria
Accountability
Secondary Education Strategies will develop an accountability process aligned with regulations and legal parameters set forth by local, state, and federal accrediting bodies.
2ES will help your organization:
Develop monitoring processes
Identify monitoring/accrediting bodies and their requirements
Establish legal parameters for accountability measures
Ensure alignment with state accountability requirements
Establish an accountability unit
Create a strategic process to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local guidelines
Create a system for reviewing and disaggregating data
Strategic Planning
Secondary Education Strategies will develop a comprehensive process for vision and mission development, leading to a strategic planning process design that ensures stakeholder participation. The strategic planning process will include the development and implementation of a “data dashboard” to monitor the progress of initiatives and the participation of stakeholders. The final product will be a “living” document that ensures alignment between initiatives and your organization’s current financial status and projected outlook.
2ES will help your organization:
Create a process to identify short- and long-term goals and objectives
Establish activities and timelines
Ensure continual stakeholder engagement
Refine vision and mission
Articulate beliefs and principles
Establish district-wide policies and protocol development
Establish means through which to communicate overall vision and mission
Facilitate systemic implementation
Educational Space Design
Secondary Education Strategies will establish an overall strategy for capital development and maintenance, including a system to assess needs for utilizing internal vs. outsourced services. 2ES will establish a program of space requirements for capital development.
2ES will help your organization:
Establish program-of-record space requirements
Establish standards
Identify architectural needs
Ensure stakeholder involvement and participation
Assist with custom furniture design
Identify architects/designers
Provide state-of-the-art lab/classroom design
Recommend technology
District Governance
Secondary Education Strategies will assist your organization to develop a structure that will promote organizational efficiency via the establishment of cross-functional teams that promote the support of academics, business operations, and management functions. 2ES will help your organization develop an effective governance model using a traditional, corporate, or hybrid functional framework.
Educational Marketing & Events
Secondary Education Strategies will help your organization design an effective marketing strategy to target your programs and services to all segments of your constituency: students, parents, administration, faculty, prospective partners, and members of the community-at-large. Secondary Education Strategies will work with your organization to design attention-grabbing special events.
Curriculum Development
Secondary Education Strategies will analyze the disaggregation of data and the overall performance measures established by your organization and recommend the appropriate curricular program which may include the creation of a managed curriculum aligned with local, state, and federal requirements. 2ES will design staff development to provide necessary support for curriculum understanding and delivery.
2ES will help your organization:
Create a system of managed curriculum using stakeholder input
Align curriculum with state requirements
Design staff development
Ensure multicultural inclusion
Ensure academic integration (CTE/academics/arts)
Develop testing and evaluation systems
Develop career and technical, cultural, arts, health, academic, etc. components
Create data-driven instructional models
Recommend resources (textbooks, etc.)
Provide training on audio-visual components
Recommend supplemental aids
Create supplemental programs (after-school, credit recovery)
Formulate articulation agreements
Community, Parent, and Corporate Engagement
Secondary Education Strategies will identify local civic, community, and corporate bodies and assist your organization in developing a strategy for soliciting support via partnership formation and development. 2ES will help your organization:
Recommend strategies for partnership development
Create advisory councils
Develop articulation agreements with employers and postsecondary institutions
Provide direction for sustainable program development
Convene focus groups
Plan educational conferences and symposia
School Structuring Services
Secondary Education Strategies will review your district’s current configuration as well as its historical organization to develop recommendations for implementing best practices and reform models.
2ES will help your organization:
Utilize research and best-practices
Identify appropriate reform measure:
Restructuring
Reconstitution
Reengineering
Develop new models for configuration:
Pre-K – 5,6,8
Middle Years Transition
Junior High Preparatory Academies
Ninth Grade Academies
Gender-Based Academies
Traditional 9 – 12 High Schools
Grade 10 – 12 Schools
Middle Colleges
Career Academies
Small Learning Communities
Fiscal Planning
Secondary Education Strategies will review and analyze your organization's current fiscal status and make projections, recommend realignments or reform of current budgets; develop multi-year budget projections via "zero-based" budgeting or per-pupil spending models
2ES will help your organization:
Develop multi-year projections
Align budgets Develop zero-based budgeting model
Implement grants management procedures
Deficit balancing
Develop per-pupil spending model
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