Schools Cubed

Educational consulting helps school leaders create high-achieving school systems. Empowering schools and districts to create systems, structures and strategies for effective and high achieving schools. Schools Cubed is an educational consulting group that takes under- or low-performing schools and works with district and school leaders to create self-sustaining, high-achieving school systems. Schools Cubed relies on a proven track record as well as effective schools research to empower districts to transform their schools. Schools Cubed believes that it is the Systems, Structures and instructional Strategies that make a difference for schools. Stand-alone programs that merely target a particular instructional area certainly have their place, but have limited impact. Schools must transform what they are doing by creating systems that empower all members of the learning community. Schools Cubed knows the research regarding effective schools, and guides districts/schools to implement the research in order to build school leadership capacity. Schools Cubed believes that powerful educational systems can be created through collaboration within buildings and with local districts. Recently, policies intended to generate increased school performance have led to school systems that are fragmented and lack a cohesive structure for implementation of these policies. Often principals and/or school leaders are left bewildered and confused. Reform becomes a mountain of paperwork that does not translate to increased student performance. Currently 75% of principals find that the job has become too complex, and thereby unsatisfying. (Metropolitan Life). Schools Cubed works with districts and school leaders to create focused systems of learning by empowering school leaders to organize around 5 areas of highly effective schools: collaboration, instructional focus, data analysis, time, and a safe and orderly environment. When principals have the capacity to develop each of these areas in their schools, structures are created that ...