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Services for Charter Schools

Foxhall Consulting Services provides the following services for charter schools

FCS has worked with more than a dozen charter schools across the country. Alyssa Whitehead-Bust has been involved with the founding of six charter schools, and is the founding principal of Highline Academy Charter School highlineacademy.org. We have worked with individual charter schools, national educational nonprofits, school districts, and individual district schools.

Be it a program dedicated to a progressive service-learning curriculum, a school focused on a back-to-basics education, or a district with a myriad of priorities, we believe that an organization's ability to succeed is dependent upon its internal consistency and attendant capacity. In all categories of our work, we help clients align their mission with the organization's programs, leadership models, evaluation methods, and budgetary priorities.

We simultaneously produce deliverables and facilitate processes that build internal capacity. For instance, as a component of supporting the launch of a new school, we might design a professional development and teacher accountability program while also imparting to the school's management the knowledge and skills necessary to sustain a collegial learning environment for teachers. In this way, we address both the short and long-term needs of educational organizations. While we custom craft the deliverables and processes of each consulting engagement, we also draw upon our expertise to ensure efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

We offer a wide-range of services that promote powerful environments for teaching and learning and that ensure organizational effectiveness and sustainability. We offer extensive expertise in the following complementary areas:

School/Program Design. Paying constant attention to values and purpose, we help translate an organization's mission into actionable programs. By bringing to bear our knowledge of strategic and tactical planning, we ensure that programs are designed in concert with the organization's priorities, developed in a manner that facilitates outcome-driven accountability, and implemented to ensure fundability and cost-efficiency. Services include:

Integrated system design for curriculum pedagogy, assessment, & benchmarking
Improvement of classroom practice
Scheduling
Program evaluation

Information Management Systems Design. Designed and managed correctly, information systems can facilitate knowledge generation and dissemination and support accountability to myriad constituents from board members, founders, and state authorizers to parents, students and employees. Simply put, our goal is to build the tools necessary for an organization to meet its goals, develop institutional knowledge and memory, and facilitate continual learning. Services include:

Evaluation and accountability systems
Data management systems
Accounting systems design/re-design
Budgeting and financial modeling systems

Human and Financial Resource Development. Focusing on creating immediate solutions to organizational challenges and on cultivating the organizational capacity necessary to create long-term sustainability, we support organizations in their efforts to develop the financial and human capital necessary to achieve their goals efficiently and effectively. Services include:

Instructional leader training
Executive coaching
Board development
Fund development
Budgeting

School/Organizational Culture-Building. Educational organizations cannot become powerful learning environments for students unless and until administrators and faculty members are also supported in their own learning. We work with organizations to create practices and processes that generate a rich professional learning community that mirrors what they would like to create for the students they serve.

Design of systems for continuous learning
Team building
Culture building