Providing transformative professional learning experiences to school leadership teams.
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past & Current clients:
You question your ability to lead your team and the broader school community to success.
Counting your team’s instructional “wins” has become difficult and you may be losing confidence in your leadership.
Your students continue to demonstrate low proficiency on assessments.
AS A RESULT:
You are unsure how to lead your team to review, analyze, and respond to student data in a way that leads to plans for instructional improvement.
You receive little to no actionable feedback on your instructional leadership.
You are unsure how to balance your priorities. Your time is mostly spent “putting out fires” and not on instructional tasks that matter - such as observing classrooms, providing feedback, and growing coaches and teachers.
You have doubts about how to effectively coach and grow your leadership team to improve instruction.
PROBLEM:
Are you (and your team) ready to improve student outcomes?
New and novice principals often struggle to quickly become effective instructional leaders, This comes as the cost of students and staff. Excel Learning offers customized professional learning experiences that accelerate the development of essential leadership mindsets, skills, and dispositions. Our workshops, coaching, and support are designed for immediate application and lasting impact.
School improvement begins with an effective school leader.
The learning experiences created by Excel Learning deepen the instructional leadership teams' shared understanding of high-impact instructional practices and provide a clear path to school improvement.
Are all key stakeholders aligned on the key problems to address? Is the diagnosis of the problem grounded in evidence?
Does our team possess the requisite skills to address the problem?
Do we have an instructional strategy that is understood and believed in by all stakeholders?
Begin grappling honestly with your contribution to the outcomes you see around you.
Consider:
School improvement begins with a real investment in quality leadership development. Students deserve it.
Leaders who receive quality guidance and feedback aligned to high-leverage aspects of instructional leadership are more likely to develop the mindset, dispositions, and behaviors necessary to improve student achievement. Excel Learning develops strong leaders. As leaders improve, so will their teams. Student success follows.
Excellent school leadership is teachable.
LET'S BE CLEAR:
Depending on how you answered each question, Excel Learning has a different service offering to meet your needs...
Your schedule is reflective of your priorities and actually dictates how you spend your time.
You can observe direct reports and teachers and provide real-time, actionable feedback daily
Evidence and data are the levers for decision-making, as opposed to personal biases and unsupported assumptions.
You lead your school to improved academic performance for students!
More is possible.
Envision leading in a world where…
This service extends the instructional coherence of the leadership team to all of the teachers. By the end of the 5-day workshop series, all instructional personnel develop shared stance and common practices regarding the essentials of excellent instruction. This service is best scheduled to begin in the fall and continue throughout the year. It includes optional on-site walkthroughs & implementation support.
Excellence in Instruction Workshop Series for Teachers
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Excel Learning's most comprehensive service deepens the collective efficacy and instructional coherence of the school’s leadership team through year-long support. We provide Summer Leadership Bootcamp to train leaders, ongoing 1:1 coaching, quarterly on-site implementation support, and optional strategic progress monitoring sessions.
Instructional Leadership Development for School Improvement
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Instructional Rounds advance learning and cultivate collaboration for a team or network of learners who are "stuck" with how to improve instructionally. We create space for varius stakeholder groups to collaboratively observe instruction and engage in an intense debrief process. The result is consensus on the current state of instruction and an emergent pathway for improvement.
INSTRUCTIONAL ROUNDS for TEACHING & LEARNING, COLLABORATION, & CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
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Service Offerings:
Client Experiences
I worked alongside Dr. Adonius Lewis for two years. During that time, he cultivated my coaching skills, deepened my content knowledge, and strengthened my leadership lens. Dr. Lewis helped me plan and execute change management systems, district professional development sessions, and taught me how to implement a data-driven model in my district. He has continually pushed me. I also found it most impactful when Dr. Lewis modeled building walkthroughs with school leadership teams as it helped us to all shape our lenses and ensure we were maximizing the highest leverage moves to drive system changes. Dr. Lewis' feedback was always direct, explicit, and supportive. Thanks for everything!
Jennifer Ligon
School Director at Educare Early Childhood Center
Dr. Lewis helped our school prioritize a cohesive coaching cycle that gave teachers capacity to improve their instruction and allow for their development and enhanced student outcomes. …I found it extremely helpful that Dr. Lewis provided our team with tools to think strategically about how we were organized, and how we identified the biggest rock to improving results at our school. The video analysis protocol was also extremely helpful in allowing us to build our collective coaching lens.
Michael Carter
Executive Director & School Leader, KIPP OKC
The past couple of years have been a transformative experience. My one-on-one coaching meetings were introspective, encouraging me to identify and leverage my inherent strengths while also addressing my areas of growth. I appreciated this so much as a new school leader. Strategic planning was a game changer for me as I prepared for the school year. I began the year with very clear priorities, goals, and a plan to execute. Also, the supportive accountability to execute with fidelity pushed me to be consistent.
l feel this experience sharpened my skills and effectiveness. Dr. Lewis focused on my specific needs and challenges, fostering growth through self-awareness and reflective practices. Also, my pedagogical and instructional acumen increased tremendously. I grow as a leader each time I am able to connect with Dr. Lewis.
Staci Brown-Helger
School Leader at Tulsa Legacy Upper Academy
Meet Dr. Adonius Lewis
Greetings! I am on a mission to normalize equitable student outcomes in schools serving historically marginalized communities. I founded Excel Learning LLC to support the development of more leaders after leading a Title I middle school to perform in the top 1% of the state for multiple years as principal. Since then, I have worked hand-in-hand to accelerate the development of dozens of emerging, new, and novice leaders.
