The 90-Day School Improvement Partnership
One critical priority. Experienced leadership beside your team. Meaningful progress you can see.
Experienced, part-time K-12 leadership that helps your existing team advance one agreed improvement priority, with a defined baseline assessment, implementation planning, hands-on leadership support, progress monitoring and a sustainability handoff.
What will actually change in our school if we work with Schoolocity?
One priority that has been waiting gets an experienced leader whose job is to move it. Within the first weeks your team has a baseline it trusts and a roadmap with names on it. Through the middle of the engagement the agreed work gets done: the routines run, the meetings end in decisions, the barriers get removed. By the end, the people who will carry it have the tools and the ownership to keep it going, and you can see the evidence of progress against where you started.
What does not change: your authority. Your school keeps every statutory, managerial, instructional and personnel decision. Schoolocity carries the implementation responsibilities written into the agreement, and nothing else is assumed.
Leaders with one urgent priority and the authority to act on it
Principals and assistant principals, superintendents and cabinet leaders, charter executives and network leaders, heads of school, and leaders of small and rural systems. The partnership fits when there is an executive sponsor, access to the relevant staff and information, permission to implement, and a budget or procurement path.
The challenges it addresses
- Decisions and processes that depend on too few people
- Instructional goals that do not reliably reach classroom practice
- Family communication that informs without engaging
- Attendance, engagement and student connection concerns caught too late
Schoolocity will rescope or step back when what is wanted is an unpaid full diagnosis, legal or compliance decision authority, unlimited availability, a guarantee of student outcome movement, or several unrelated priorities under one standard scope.
Five things every partnership includes
Scope, hours, format, success measures and fees are agreed for each client in a written statement of work.
From first conversation to handoff
Possibility Conversation
The urgent priority, why it has stalled, the change you want, who signs, and timing. A preliminary scope, not a free full assessment.
Contract and kickoff
Sponsor named, diagnostic window, access rights, privacy and safeguarding terms, capacity, change rules and reporting cadence.
Baseline assessment
Review the evidence, interview key team members, map present practices, identify constraints and choose baseline measures.
Define the engagement
One priority, the goal, leading and lagging measures, roles, an action-owner map, milestones and a realistic roadmap.
Implement and lead
Convene the people, lead the agreed work, remove barriers, establish routines, document progress, at the intensity set in the scope.
Review, results and handoff
Milestone check-ins and a final review against baseline. Owners receive usable tools and next-step priorities so the work continues.
Evidence you can see in 90 days
Leading measures move first: adoption of the agreed practice, completion of milestones, workflow reliability, participation, response time. Those are what a 90-day partnership is built to change, and they are reviewed at every milestone.
Student achievement, attendance, climate and similar lagging outcomes are tracked where feasible. They move more slowly, and Schoolocity does not promise their movement within a single partnership. What we do promise is the implementation work that makes them possible, carried out and documented.
How responsibilities are shared
The agreement names decision rights, communications, access to data, safeguarding requirements, escalation, site presence, reporting and handoff. Your team keeps its authority; the Schoolocity leader keeps the implementation commitments in writing. Scope changes require a documented amendment, so no one is surprised.
How your team continues afterward
Every partnership ends with named internal owners, the operating tools they will use, and the next priorities. The handoff is a deliverable, not a goodbye.
Scoped to the priority, not the calendar
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A sharply defined, urgent project with available information and a credible closeout.
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A bounded diagnosis-plus-implementation project that can reasonably finish in that term.
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The signature partnership. One priority, a baseline, implementation cycles, reviews and a transfer of ownership.
Semester
Schoolwide change where adoption and outcome trends need more time. Scoped and priced, never presumed.
Five questions we will ask
- Which priority is costing your team time or momentum?
- What have you tried, and where does implementation stall?
- What would visibly improve in 90 days?
- Who owns implementation, and who signs contracts?
- What purchase process, budget availability and start date should we plan for?