Designing Your Vision, Building Your Future
Your leading partner in examining curriculum, instruction and culture to improve student outcomes, ensuring adults can provide the excellent education EVERY student DESRVES.
We’ve had the privilege of partnering with and supporting educational leaders, curriculum developers and over 1000 educators through keynotes, workshops, and consulting.
Improved Learning Environments And Organizational Cultures:
Your Vision, Our Expertise
Our equity-driven education consulting centers on collaboration, clarity, and measurable impact—because transforming instruction starts with intentional design and informed action.
Classroom Educators & Coaches
The use of your instructional power is affording or constraining student access to learning. We teach from who we are and what we have experienced as a learner, and not from who our students are.
Districts & State Agencies
Get a hold of how power of everyone, including you, and at all levels influences decisions that impact student outcomes. (i.e. biases, funding, misplaced compassion, low expectations, etc).
Corporations & Publishers
Representation matters and it must be balanced so students see themselves in stereotype defying and expansive, more accurate ways.
Creating Conditions for
Excellent Education,
One Partner at a Time
We’re here to share our 20+ years of knowledge base and passion for the field of education. We adopt a 5-phase partnership process to support you in creating and sustaining empowering and agentive learning environments.
Step 01
Learning
After this stage, our partners can answer questions such as:
- What do we need to learn about our curriculum, practices, and culture to positively impact teaching, learning, student, & environmental outcomes
- What quantitative and qualitative data can we use to determine our opportunities for growth, improvement, & transformation?
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Step 02
Planning
After this stage, our partners can answer questions such as:
- What conditions need to be created for learning to be applied for all of our stakeholders?
- What are the barriers?
- How do we challenge the barriers?
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Step 03
Application
After this stage, our partners can answer questions such as:
- How will we apply our learning to improve and create curricular, instructional, and cultural transformation?
- How will we use cycles of improvement to work towards curricular, instructional, and cultural transformation?
Step 04
Evaluation
After this stage, our partners can answer questions such as:
- What strategies are working to create our desired outcomes?
- What strategies are least effective in creating our desired outcomes?
- What strategies should we change to create our desired outcomes?
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Step 05
Integration
After this stage, our partners can answer questions such as:
- How have our curriculum, instructional practices, and culture been transformed to achieve our desired outcomes?
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Interested in Partnering?
Here are a sampling of options to consider.
Liaison Educational Partners offers customized solutions, avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach.
Our services range from keynotes and workshops to hands-on support with organizational culture, curriculum development, and talent assessment. We specialize in strengthening instructional core and transforming cultures through thought partnership, redesigning and aligning curricula, diving into Instructional P.O.W.E.R, along with long-term strategic planning.
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Self-Paced Learning
Build instructional understanding on your own schedule. Access self-paced courses and licensed learning series grounded in the Instructional Power framework to deepen practice and apply learning immediately. Designed for independent learning, this option does not include live facilitation or direct involvement from Dr. Tanji Reed Marshall.
Let's Grow
1-3 Months
Gain clarity and spark quick wins.
Designed to help teams move from uncertainty to action, this option provides focused, short-term support through targeted professional learning, strategic curriculum and/or instructional analysis. Leaders identify environmental challenges and develop meaningful next steps with confidence.
Let's Transform
6+ Months
You are ready to reimagine your educational or organizational environment, we are ready for a comprehensive, long-term partnership is with you. Over the course of a full year or more, we collaborate on professional development, thought leadership, and curriculum and instructional analysis to create lasting transformation that reshapes your environment from the ground up.
Keynotes
60 to 90-minute Talks
My keynotes help leaders translate belief into action through leadership development across disciplines and levels. Participants leave with greater clarity on how to build authentic, empowering, and sustainable environments where people can thriveynotes inspire action and transformation, providing leadership development across disciplines and levels.
Hear from inspired partners and conference attendees
Workshop Attendee
Benchmark Education 2024
The session was informative, joyous, and inspiring. I left feeling re-committed to the crucial work of providing all students access, as well as windows and mirrors in our programs. The session also underscored for me the importance of curriculum developers, and the responsibility in creating programs for young leaners. What I want to avoid most of all is presenting our content as “The One Right Way” or a universal truth, but as a set of perspectives among infinite possibilities.
Webinar Attendee
Scholastic EdWeb Webinar 2024
This was a great webinar because it gave me a way to help teachers who are tied to a particular curriculum that exudes bias. It has given me ideas on how to teach to empower our diverse students so that they can find themselves and reflect purposely on the content and how it can improve
Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, PhD
Dean and Distinguished Professor, School of Education, American University
Dr. Tanji Reed Marshall lands a seminal read that is not to be missed! Understanding Your Instructional Power is a unique teacher-oriented book that addresses instruction within the context of power and the impact of teachers’ power on students’ learning and perceptions of self. The Power Principle matrix should be taught in every teacher training program because it masterfully depicts the power teachers have in instructional decision making—from empowering to disenfranchising.
Conference Participant
Black Literacy Matters 2024
Describing the boy in the book was so eye-opening that when it came to others even describing their work, I found myself making the connections: i.e. putting all of the behavioral problem kids in the basement and how that is identical to them going into “the hole” in prison…
Conference Participant
Ghana ASCD 2024
Engaging opportunity to reflect on one’s practice and consider implications for schools and how we come to define power and exercise power.
Dr. Tanji Reed Marshall
Meet the Founder and Principal Consultant
People, partnerships, and projects are at the heart of what we do.
We thrive on collaborating, creating strong partnerships, and engaging in meaningful projects. Our approach centers on understanding your context and finding solutions that align with your goals.
Reach out to see how, together, we can improve your learning environment and organizational culture.