BOARD SERVICES
Strong Boards.
Strong Schools.
Stronger Futures.
Boards are the backbone of great schools. Our Board Services are designed to strengthen governance, build leadership capacity, and ensure every decision made advances student success.
Whether you're a new board learning roles and responsibilities, a veteran board navigating complex challenges, or simply striving for the next level of impact, we meet you where you are—and help you get where you want to be.
How We Support Boards
➔ Board Training & Development
We equip board members with the skills, tools, and confidence to govern with greatness. From foundational governing principles to advanced training and strategic planning, our approach is customized to meet your needs and designed for real-world impact. We offer in-person, virtual, and on-demand development.
➔ Strategic Planning
We facilitate dynamic, mission-aligned planning sessions that unite your board, leadership, and school community around a bold vision for the future. Together, we create strategic roadmaps that focus your efforts and inspire collective action so that you can govern with purpose.
➔ Governance Consulting
We help boards clarify roles and responsibilities, adopt policies, model best practices, and stay aligned with authorizer expectations and legal requirements. Our team has deep expertise in all aspects of the charter sector, supporting your board in leading with integrity and purpose.
➔ Board Retreats & Facilitation
Our expert facilitators guide meaningful retreats that encourage reflection, strengthen relationships, and focus on what matters most. Whether you need a reset, renewal, or recharge—we create space for strategy, learning, and growth.
➔ New School and Start-up Support
We specialize in helping new and start-up charter school boards get it right from the start. From governance fundamentals to strategic planning and readiness, we provide the support and guidance boards need to lead with confidence from day one.
➔ Board Evaluation & Leadership Coaching
We provide tools, frameworks, and coaching that help boards and school leaders assess performance and grow together. Our approach promotes a culture of continuous improvement and high standards.
Why Work with Us?
Our team includes former charter school leaders, authorizers, and governance experts who’ve been in your shoes. We bring unmatched expertise, personalized support, and a deep understanding of the authorizer-board-school relationship.
Board support is not one-size-fits-all—every board has its own local context, strengths, challenges, and stages of development. That’s why we tailor our guidance, training, and tools to meet your board where it is and help it grow with purpose and confidence.
We don’t just train boards—we transform them into confident, mission-driven leaders that know how to ask the right questions and focus on what matters most: providing a quality education for all students.
Explore Our Board Services
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IN-PERSON | VIRTUAL | ON-DEMAND
Board Trainings
Much like students, every board is unique—and so is the way it learns and grows. That’s why we offer in-person, virtual, and on-demand training formats designed to deliver high-impact learning, no matter your schedule or setting. -
POLICY DEVELOPMENT | CONSULTING
Board Policies, Procedures & Guidelines
If you are seeking best practices or looking for the policies your school must legally adopt, we have what you need. Our policies and procedures are being used on a daily basis in scores of charter schools. Our material is legally grounded, practically tested and user friendly. -
TRAINING | COMMUNITY
Board Network: Board Training & Community
Whether you’re a board member or someone who works with a board, this national community is for you. By joining, you’ll have access to specialized tools, resources and trainings, along with opportunities to engage and exchange ideas with experts and peers from around the country. -
Consulting
Board Strategic Planning
If you are seeking best practices or looking for the policies your school must legally adopt, we have what you need. Our policies and procedures are being used on a daily basis in scores of charter schools. Our material is legally grounded, practically tested and user friendly. -
TRAINING | DEVELOPMENT
Board Retreats
If you are seeking best practices or looking for the policies your school must legally adopt, we have what you need. Our policies and procedures are being used on a daily basis in scores of charter schools. Our material is legally grounded, practically tested and user friendly. -
COACHING | DEVELOPMENT
New School & Start-Up Support for Boards
If you are seeking best practices or looking for the policies your school must legally adopt, we have what you need. Our policies and procedures are being used on a daily basis in scores of charter schools. Our material is legally grounded, practically tested and user friendly.
Let’s Build Board Excellence—Together
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Why Work With Us...
Experienced Leaders
We know education. Work with passionate professionals who have walked in your shoes—as authorizers, board members, school leaders, teachers, and even lawmakers.
One-Stop-Shop
We have solutions for all aspects of charter operations—from one-on-one coaching and consulting with seasoned experts, to professional development and training for your team, to robust tools and software systems.
Creative Solutions
Our services, tools and expertise are always growing and evolving. We pride ourselves on thinking outside of the box and challenging the givens, with new and creative solutions that fit your custom needs.
Reliable & Responsive
Our team is trusted nationally for being reliable, respected and dedicated. We are leaders who are committed to students and those who serve them. Kids! They are the WHY behind all we do.
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Trusted by charter school authorizers, boards and schools across the nation.
CPS
CMU
Cleveland
Chicago International
Bay Mills
Bay Mills
Audubon
Alameda
Action Agua Dulce
Abney
UWM
SUNY
SUNY
South Carolina
School authority
Philiadelphia
Orange County
OPSRC
Old Mission
Oklahoma
Ohio
ODE
NEO
Muskegon
Mizzou
Missouri
Mississippi
Learn4life
Indiana
Hawaii
GVSU
Fordham
ESC
DC
Thank you for all you do for us. We are in the trenches and it isn't always simple, straightforward, or easy - but worth it. You put emotional and intellectual labor into this above and beyond what you have to do to be successful with and for us.
Natalie Tucker
Chief of Staff, New Schools for Alabama
I have heard rave reviews from the Commission Members and Board Chairs. Everyone found the conversation enlightening and we’re begin to impact hearts and minds on the Commission.
Lana Ewing
Interim Executive Director, Maine Charter School Commission
The stuff you are doing and that I have tapped into from the Institute since Washington DC has been the best personal PD ever. I feel challenged, but also feel like I'm gaining insights and tools to make me a better educator, a better team member, and just a better informed and better person.
