Your leading partner in examining curriculum, instruction and culture.
Create the conditions for EVERY student to receive the excellent education they DESERVE!
Trusted by 1000+ educators and leaders around the globe
You know the messiness of middle school. One moment they’re with you, the next, they’re not. One moment they know everything, the next, they’ve forgotten it all.
The work is demanding, complex, and when done well, transformative.
Leaders, educators, and curriculum developers at every level and especially at the middle school level shape student outcomes through the decisions they make about curriculum, instruction, and culture. Liaison Educational Partners exists to support the people whose jobs most directly influence what students experience; by strengthening the mindsets, skillsets, tools, and structures that make excellent education possible.
We move you from intention to impact, from disenfranchisement to empowerment, from protecting power to sharing it through agency development.
"Let us become who we are when we dream." - Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni’s words ground our belief in what education can become when leaders, educators, and curriculum developers expand what they imagine is possible for students and the adults who serve them. When dominant narratives and inherited systems go unexamined, they place limits on learning. But, when those limits are interrogated, new possibilities emerge for what students can do and who they can become.
By examining the historical and structural foundations of education, we work alongside those whose decisions most directly shape student experience; especially those responsible for designing curriculum, guiding instruction, and leading systems.
Who We Partner With
We partner with educators, school and district leaders, curriculum developers, state agencies, and education organizations whose decisions shape student access, opportunity, and agency.
If your work influences what students learn, how they learn it, or whose knowledge is represented, this work is for you.
Showing up, digging in, changing learning environments and cultures for the better for ALL.
We emphasize partnership in creating change and are committed to improving organizations and learning environments for all students, particularly those on the margins.
WHAT WE DO
We Examine, Challenge, and Change Classroom Power Dynamics in Learning Environments
Our Mission:
Liaison Educational Partners exists to ensure every student receives the excellent education they DESERVE. We know that for students to receive excellent educations they need the leaders and educators with the mindset, skillset, tools, resources and materials to create learning environments that center authentic agency and empowerment in their curriculum, instruction and culture.
Our Vision:
At Liaison Educational Partners we envision an education system where EVERY student has the leaders and educators with the mindset, skillset, tools and materials that promote their authentic agency and empowerment as inextricably linked to their curricular, instructional and cultural decision-making.
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What does Liaison Educational Partners do?
LEP directly supports state departments of education, school districts, and individual schools to ensure highly effective teachers educate students, their leaders are supported, and they learn using curricula that authentically represent them.
We also partner with education-facing organizations supporting their efforts to develop culturally responsive, representationally-balanced curricula and ensuring alignment between their mission, vision, values, and practices so that their approach to supporting the education profession centers students.
We offer short- and long-term engagements for leaders and their teams that include:
- Strategic Planning Support
- Thought Partnership
- Leader and Educator Development & Support
- Curriculum Vetting, Review, & Restructuring
- Professional Development
- 1:1 & Team Coaching
Learn more and get in touch on our Services Page.
Who have we partnered with?
Our work with state departments of education such as the Delaware Department of Education has allowed them to engage in the deep work of examining their principles, policies, and practices.
We also work at the individual district and school level like with past clients the Boston Public Schools, High School of Commerce in Massachusetts, and the Forrest City School District to improve educator performance leading to improved student outcomes.
Finally, our work with education-supporting organizations such as Benchmark and Scholastic Education Solutions allows us to be sought-after thought partners shaping national curricula, organizational equity strategy, and development, as well as leader and educator development.
How can I work with Dr. Tanji?
Are you ready to partner? Wonderful.
We listen deeply to provide strategic, creative, and results-oriented solutions to complex educational challenges.
Partnership is paramount, and we recognize that our clients’ investment is an act of trust, which we take seriously.
Therefore, we center their context and seek solutions that best meet their goals with an approach that meets their needs.