In districts across the country, professional development season is in full swing. Schedules are filling with sessions on instructional frameworks, classroom management, and data-driven strategies. But one critical issue continues to be overlooked—one that quietly undermines all the others:

Educators are exhausted. And pedagogy won’t fix burnout.

We don’t have a professional development problem.
We have a human sustainability problem.

The assumption that more training will automatically lead t...

Rebuilding Confidence, Connection and Culture Through Systemic Family Engagement

By Lisa Imel | Founder & CEO, EdSolutions Group

In a climate where public trust in education is unraveling, student attendance is plummeting, and teacher burnout has become the norm, one solution remains consistently underleveraged: family engagement.
Not as a gesture.
As a strategy.

For decades, we’ve acknowledged that family engagement matters. We've known that students thrive when families and schools are aligne...

Let's Change the World One Positive Parent Experience at a Time

In the spirit of teaching excellence, I challenge you to incorporate a strategy that I began implementing early in my teaching career. The ‘Positive Parent Phone Call Challenge’ is a strategic parent engagement initiative where positive parent phone calls are employed to improve school and classroom culture and ultimately student achievement and success. Not only is it a strategic effort. It has the power to change the world simply...