Educationcounsel

EducationCounsel is a mission-driven education consulting firm that works with leading nonprofit organizations, foundations, and policymakers at all levels to help significantly improve education opportunity and outcomes. We do this by leveraging policy, strategy, law, and advocacy to help transform education systems, from early learning to K–12 to higher education. We work with clients and partners to advance evidence-based innovations and systems change at the federal, state, and local levels, with a central focus on equitable opportunity and outcomes for all. EducationCounsel works with clients and partners from the conception of their goals through efforts to build consensus and drive change. We create implementation plans to actualize them, providing ongoing counsel to address the complexities of the laws, policies, and stakeholders at all levels. We look around the curve to identify big ideas and help develop priority projects that are both ready to move and could have big impact. We do this based on research, science, evidence, data, stakeholder engagement, analysis, creativity, experience, and judgment, and with a deep commitment to equity. We help support diverse clients, partners, and coalitions to lead the change. We provide ongoing, bipartisan counsel and support to help advance significant, sustainable changes in our education systems, with a focus on continuous improvement over time. We focus on both broad-scale transformation and bringing together the stakeholders and systems required to implement at the school and institutional level, and then continue our work with our clients and their partners to ensure that their efforts remain sustainable over time. EducationCounsel's advocacy efforts don't simply rely on relationships to serve as “door openers,” but rather bring the power of information to the policy discussion.