Services & Solutions for Schools & Districts
SPN provides comprehensive and targeted solutions to today’s K-12 challenges, equipping your school system with innovative, successful practices that empower all students to succeed. We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to develop leadership capacity and to foster instructional practices that address the diverse needs of all learners.
Services & Solutions
Explore our comprehensive range of services and expertise.
Building Leadership Capacity
Through coaching cohorts and strategic planning sessions, SPN’s experts collaborate with district and building administrators to step-by-step build school systems that adopt proactive cultures. The final product? Students ready for a rapidly evolving world.
Executive Leadership Coaching
What do the best of the best have in common? Coaches. SPN’s experts are here to coach your administrators and instructional leaders as they adopt the best and next practices critical to prepare students for their futures. By leading brainstorming sessions, reflective collaborations, and scenario-based learning opportunities that focus on strategic goals and building proactive cultures, SPN’s coaches help refine and finesse your system’s team to become its best version.
Network Support
We learn better together. Be part of the Future-Focused community and continue your system’s journey by joining SPN’s network of visionary leaders, educators, and institutions.
Certifications
Take pride in your successes. SPN and its brands–including the National Dropout Prevention Center–offer certification programs to showcase your system’s excellence in areas such as dropout prevention, trauma-informed instruction, and attendance improvement. With more certification areas coming in the future, your system can be at the vanguard of empowering students to tackle tomorrow.
Creating a Culture to Support Skills
A proactive culture doesn’t just sprout overnight. SPN’s experts help cultivate a proactive, collaborative culture that supports your students now and into the future. From building smart strategic plans that establish your system’s solid roots to nurturing the students blooming on its branches, SPN helps build cultures founded in the best and next practices for success.
Need Assessment
The beginning is a very good place to start. To build a proactive culture, SPN partners with your administrators and educators to understand your school system’s strengths, opportunities, and strategic goals. We’ll initiate a comprehensive needs assessment to determine how to customize our offerings to meet the unique needs of your learning community and to build sustainable plans for the future.
Strategic & Action Planning
Strategic planning. Streamlined.
SPN’s experts can help you create strategic plans that have real impact on your system’s culture, organization, and instructional practices. By honoring your system’s vision and principles, we coach stakeholders into crafting strategic plans that are intentional, focused, and measurable.
Future-Focused Systems
The world is changing. Our students are changing. Our instruction must change. To meet the needs of a rapidly evolving world and to empower our students to contribute to it, we must build Future-Focused school systems. SPN has a comprehensive set of tools, strategies, and experts that can help your system adapt to a changing workforce, to technological breakthroughs like artificial intelligence, and to an evolving postsecondary education landscape. By cultivating a Future-Focused system now, your students will be ready for whatever the world throws their way in the future.
Keynoting
Experienced. Inspiring. Visionary. If your organization, conference, or team needs some inspiration, SPN’s experts have the chops to detail the research-backed needs of the future and pave the pathway for its success.
Supporting ALL Students
All means all. SPN takes our mission to care for the present and enable the future for all students seriously. Whether SPN’s experts partner with your system to build dynamic strategic plans, to harness the tremendous opportunity of artificial intelligence, or to build instructional practices that prepare students for a rapidly evolving world, we believe all students deserve to benefit from learning experiences that honor their unique aptitudes
Trauma Skilled™ Services (TSS)
Caring for the present and enabling the future requires an empathy-first approach. This means that schools and districts have an obligation to care for all students who find themselves along a trauma continuum. SPN’s experts offer specialized strategies to ensure that Future-Focused systems honor students’ individual stories and cultivate resilience.
Attendance Improvement Services
Being Future-Focused means being present. SPN wants all students to be present for their education. That’s why SPN’s experts—including those at the National Dropout Prevention Center—have extensive expertise in implementing evidence-based strategies to promote increased student attendance.
Dropout Prevention
Meet kids where they’re at to keep them where they should be. Dropout rates have skyrocketed post-pandemic as students try to find their place in a rapidly evolving world. SPN believes that all students are entitled to a successful educational experience–but that experience might look differently in a changed world. By using research-based practices, data analysis, and cutting-edge instructional practices, SPN’s experts can help your system decrease its dropout rate and hone its strategies for reengaging students.
Diploma Planning Institute (DPI)
More diplomas. Fewer dropouts. The Diploma Planning Institute is a multi-day event that guides teams to build school-specific, research-based dropout prevention plans to support at-risk students. During the institute, educators work directly with national field experts to utilize local data and knowledge of their students to create actionable plans that improve graduation rates.
Implement Instructional Practices
Bring SPN’s exceptional in-person and virtual professional learning experiences to your school communities. SPN’s experts craft professional learning tailored to your school system’s needs. Our experts design and deliver best-in-class engagements that are dynamic and that have immediate impact on culture, instruction, and innovation. Whether we’re working together to promote social-emotional learning strategies or building lessons that leverage artificial intelligence, SPN’s professional learning goal is always the same: to produce resilient students ready for our rapidly evolving world.
School-Based Professional Learning
The best and next practices delivered to you. SPN’s experts help craft professional learning programs that are personalized to your administrators, teachers, and instructional staff. By incorporating your strategic plans, learning goals, and educational initiatives into our robust offerings, SPN’s professional learning team delivers experiences that complement your objectives and evolve your approaches.
Instructional Coaching
Putting theory into practice is a team effort. That’s why SPN’s experts are here to assist your leaders and teachers as they implement cutting-edge instructional practices that care for the present and enable the future for all students. By leading coaching cohorts and visiting classrooms, SPN’s coaches guide your staff through a reflective experience that embraces your system’s vision for success.
Executive Leadership Coaching
What do the best of the best have in common? Coaches. SPN’s experts are here to coach your administrators and instructional leaders as they adopt the best and next practices critical to prepare students for their futures. By leading brainstorming sessions, reflective collaborations, and scenario-based learning that focus on strategic success and building proactive culture, SPN’s coaches help refine and finesse your system’s team to become its best version.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Integration
The next big thing is already here. AI has the ability to not only simplify the lives of teachers, but also to unleash the creative potential of students who will never know a world without it. SPN’s experts can help your system embrace the possibilities of AI and navigate its complexities so that your system is at the cutting-edge of the integrated technologies critical to a rapidly evolving world.
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