Invest in Expanding Instructional Equity and Improving Student Outcomes
Emerging from the pandemic, our schools are facing intense pressure to address unfinished learning as well as the trauma and disengagement experienced by many students this year. Highlander Institute offers a research-based approach that integrates critical social, emotional, and academic supports. Partner with us to fundamentally improve instruction, engagement, and student success.
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Our delivery models are designed to flexibly fit your local strengths and needs
Build knowledge and inspire action
Explore the connections between high expectations, powerful relationships, strong academic mindsets"Academic Mindsets are four key beliefs which deeply influence our behaviors as learners, and which enable learning success. These mindsets affect our motivation, strategies, and perseverance. They are:
• I belong in this learning community.
• I can change my abilities through effort (a growth mindset).
• I can succeed.
• This work has value and purpose for me."
- Mindset Works More, and student achievement. Discuss high-impact instructional moves and plan for classroom-level application.
Collaborate and share professional learning
Gather in facilitated learning communities to discuss how to implement culturally responsive and sustaining approaches. Customize new strategies, collect evidence of impact, and reflect on next steps.
Deepen practice and accelerate growth
Develop student thinking skills and persistence through classroom coaching cycles centered on reflection and feedback. Receive individualized thought partnership and share emerging best practices school-wide.
Tackle barriers and nurture inclusive change
Receive personalized, structured support, focused on managing sustainable change, instructional equity, and family engagement. Grow in your role as consensus-builder, communicator, and problem-solver.
"During this very challenging year, I am so proud of the work that my school was able to complete with teachers and the community. If we can have this great momentum during a pandemic, the sky's the limit in moving forward. I am just bursting with gratefulness for the entire Highlander collaboration."
- Principal, Whiteknact Elementary School, RI
There are many ways to engage!
Flexibly combine supports to maximize impact
Scale your engagement from Professional Development to Full Change Management driven by Design Teams
When partnering with us, you can choose your level of engagement based on your current context and capacity. Through combinations of PD, PLC Facilitation, and 1-on-1 Coaching, schools grow teacher and leader practice by matching supports to local strengths and needs. Through full change management - centered on design teams and integrated with school improvement efforts - leaders build momentum for whole school reform through a focus on communication, continuous improvement, and stakeholder empowerment.
"The partnership with Highlander has been one of the very best experiences I have had in education."
- Instructional Coach, Tipton Middle School, IA
