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PPSG offers strategic consulting, project management, and operations support to large-scale public projects and entities. Led by partner Amy Rosen, PPSG's Public Education Section offers high-level advice and executional support to urban school districts, state secretaries of education, not-for-profit foundations committed to education reform, and private sector entities serving the K-12 public education market.

Areas of expertise include:

  • The design of comprehensive, achievement-oriented school and system reform strategies, especially those that enable public education entities to leverage the benefits of private and philanthropic involvement while maintaining public control over and accountability for student outcomes and the system components that support them;
  • The design and execution of political, media and communications strategies, including crisis management interventions and comprehensive communications plans designed to enable results-driven superintendents, state departments of education and school boards to earn broad public support for transformative innovations and system change; and
  • The design and implementation of the critical operational elements necessary to transform school districts into "high performing organizations," including more targeted and aligned budgeting processes, design of data-driven decision making systems that enable all decision makers, including teachers, to regularly measure progress towards goals and to design "real-time" pedagogical and other interventions to achieve them, and effective Human Resources systems (e.g., hiring strategies, accountability mechanisms, effective professional development, and quality assurance systems) premised on the philosophy that the single greatest variable in determining achievement outcomes for children is the quality of instruction in individual classrooms.

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