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Consulting built for real-world leaders in both sectors.
Six service areas, each designed to move your organization from compliance-based evaluation to a growth-focused performance culture, in schools or in business.
Job Descriptions Aligned to Your Rubric
You can’t evaluate someone who doesn’t know what is expected of them.
Fair evaluation starts long before the review. We write or revise clear, role-specific job descriptions and align them directly to the rubric you use to evaluate performance. Expectations, feedback, and growth all point in the same direction from day one.
Clear expectations are the foundation every fair evaluation is built on.
What’s included
- Role clarity reviewAudit of current job descriptions against actual responsibilities
- Job description writingClear duties, competencies, and success measures for each role
- Rubric alignmentEvery expectation in the job description maps to a rubric criterion
- Performance rubric designObservable, leveled criteria built for your roles and values
- Onboarding toolsPlain-language guides so new hires know what “good” looks like
- Manager briefingTraining leaders to use the aligned documents in reviews
What you walk away with
- Employees who know exactly what is expected of them and how they’ll be evaluated
- Reviews that feel like a conversation people have been building toward all year
- Documentation that is consistent, fair, and defensible
- A foundation that makes every other evaluation tool work better
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Educator Effectiveness & Evaluation
Observation shouldn’t be something teachers dread. It should be the most useful professional development they receive all year.
Most districts have an evaluation system. Far fewer have an evaluation culture, where teachers understand exactly what excellent practice looks like, administrators observe with consistency, and every post-observation conference moves instruction forward.
We train principals, coaches, and lead teachers to conduct objective observations using your district’s adopted evaluation tools, collect observable evidence, rate reliably, and write feedback teachers can use the next day.
What’s included
- Evaluation system implementationRollout support for any state-approved or district-selected evaluation model
- Observation calibrationEvaluators learn to rate the same lesson the same way
- Administrator observation coachingOne-on-one or small-group skill building for principals
- Custom rubric developmentOriginal tools built for your district’s context and priorities
- SPED & specialized-role toolsAdapted instruments for specialized instructional roles
- Michigan PA 224/225 supportNavigate state educator effectiveness requirements
What districts walk away with
- Administrators who observe with confidence, consistency, and calibration
- Teachers who understand the criteria and aren’t surprised by feedback
- A shared language for instruction that connects observation to growth
- Documentation that is legally defensible and educationally meaningful
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Classroom-Embedded Instructional Coaching
Coaching that happens where learning happens: inside the classroom, focused on the craft of teaching.
One-on-one and small-group coaching cycles built around the high-leverage practices that drive student learning. Teachers get practical, low-friction strategies they can use the next day, and leaders see results in student work and assessment data.
What’s included
- Explicit instruction & modelingBreaking complex concepts into clear steps before independent practice
- Student engagementShifting the thinking to students through discussion, questioning, and writing
- Formative assessmentChecking every student’s understanding and adjusting on the spot
- Classroom routinesClear procedures and smooth transitions that protect instructional time
- Data-based coaching conversationsUsing observation notes and student work to set next steps
- Follow-up cyclesObserve, debrief, practice, and observe again
What schools walk away with
- Teachers with more confidence and practical mastery of their classrooms
- High expectations for every student, with the support to meet them
- Growth you can see in reading benchmarks and assessment results
- Stronger teacher retention because support is real and useful
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Manager Training & Performance Systems
The best managers aren’t born knowing how to evaluate people. They’re trained, and most organizations skip that step.
Most companies have a performance review process. What they rarely have is a management team that knows how to use it well. The result is vague feedback, inflated ratings, little development, and employees who leave because of how they were managed.
Drawing on 25+ years of educator evaluation expertise, Kathy brings a precision to performance conversations that most corporate training programs don’t have.
What’s included
- Manager evaluation skills trainingWorkshops on observation, documentation, and feedback
- Custom performance rubric designRole-specific criteria aligned to your company’s values
- Growth-focused feedback workshopsPractical language for developmental conversations
- Performance review redesignAudit and overhaul of your current review cycle
- HR team consulting & coachingBuild internal capacity to sustain the system
- Inter-rater reliability for managersCalibration sessions to align scoring across your team
What organizations walk away with
- Managers who give specific, evidence-based feedback, not vague impressions
- A performance culture where reviews are anticipated, not dreaded
- Less bias in evaluation through structured observation training
- Higher retention among high performers who feel seen and developed
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Evaluating for Growth™
A half-day or full-day workshop that changes how leaders prepare for and conduct evaluations.
Evaluating for Growth™ was developed over two decades of working with administrators and managers who were responsible for evaluation but had never been taught to do it well. Participants move from evaluation as paperwork to evaluation as the most powerful leadership tool they have.
Half-day (3.5 hours) and full-day (7 hours) formats, customized for education or corporate settings.
Workshop modules
- The mindset shiftWhy evaluation fails, and what it looks like when it works
- The art of observationWhat to look for, how to document it, and how to stay objective
- Evidence-based feedbackTurning what you saw into language that develops people
- The growth conversationMeetings that motivate instead of deflate
- Calibration & consistencyBias awareness and reliability practice across evaluators
- Application practiceLive scenario work with real feedback and rubrics
What’s included
- Workbook & toolsA complete observation-to-feedback framework to use immediately
- Feedback languageWritten and verbal language for growth conversations
- Calibration practiceScoring confidence and bias-reduction techniques
- Follow-up coachingOptional 30-day session to embed the skills
Participants leave with
- A practical framework they can use the next day
- Confidence conducting evaluation conversations that move people forward
- A shared approach across the leadership team
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Strategic HR & Evaluation Consulting
For organizations that need a partner to build or rebuild their entire performance system.
Some organizations need more than a workshop. They need a partner who can audit what they have, identify what’s not working, and build something that does. Whether you’re launching a new evaluation system, redesigning performance management after growth, or inheriting a process nobody trusts, Kathy brings a structured approach to get you where you need to be.
What’s included
- System audit & gap analysisReview of current tools, practices, and culture
- Job description & rubric developmentCustom instruments aligned to your roles and values
- Implementation planningPhased rollout with timelines, communication, and training
- Leader & evaluator onboardingEvery evaluator calibrated and confident
- Ongoing advisory supportMonthly check-ins, troubleshooting, and refinement
- Data analysis & reportingTurning evaluation data into insight for leadership
What this engagement produces
- A documented, customized evaluation system your team can sustain
- Internal capacity, so you aren’t dependent on outside consultants
- Stakeholder buy-in through a transparent rollout
- Results you can report to your board or leadership team
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First step
Every engagement is scoped to your situation.
Start with a free 30-minute discovery call. We’ll talk about where you are, where you want to be, and what would help most.