What Makes Us Great

LOGISTICS, SITE OPERATIONS, AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS

GOVERNMENT AGENCY, PUBLIC & CHARTER SCHOOL PLANNING / SUPPORT

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION

PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, MANAGEMENT, ASSESSMENT, AND EVALUATION

COMMUNITY, STAKEHOLDER, AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT

Program Development, Management, Assessment, and Evaluation

• Qualitative, quantitative, and legal data collection, research, analysis, and interpretation

• Research design methods and survey instrument development and validation

• Program quality reviews

• Legal compliance assessments

• Competitive analysis and risk mitigation assessments

Government Agency, Public & Charter School Planning / Support

• Change management and new initiative implementation

• Performance improvement by redirecting ineffective spending and streamlining organizational processes

• Long-term sustainability support focused on pragmatic improvements to increase return-on-investment

• Community organization and ally asset mapping to strengthen understanding of core organizational function and service expectations

• Comprehensive charter school authorization / renewal campaign playbook

We are committed to helping build diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizations with the vision of changing the world through the lives of each individual, one person at a time. We do so by: 

• Supporting leaders in gaining qualitative and quantitative understandings of how individual experiences have shaped the organization’s current social climate and impacted progress toward goals.

• Design and facilitate surveys, interviews,  and focus groups with various stakeholders to inform improved organization policies and practices. 

• Conduct holistic reviews of various practices and policies related to, but not exhaustive of, leader and staff accountability and discipline, staff recruitment, hiring, and retention standards, program development, and stakeholder engagement, with particular regard to dealings of race and race-related incidents.  

• Coach and support leaders through the development of new policy and practice considerations that explicitly addresses equity and are culturally responsive to the needs of diverse learning communities. 

• Help organizations revamp their internal and external images into ones that accurately reflect the organization’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, accountability, and excellence on all fronts. 

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Assessment 

Creation, issuance, and data analysis of customized, research-based surveys for stakeholders, staff, and governing Board members.

Culture & Climate Development

Professional development trainings with staff, stakeholders, and governing Board members based on the needs identified during the DEI Assessment.

Governance & Policy Enhancement

Coordination of work with an internal organization committee to revise policies to reflect explicit commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Curriculum Revision & Updates

Support schools to revise subject matter materials to be culturally responsive with leading faculty, department chairs, and learning communities.

Communications & Public Engagement Support

Creation of diverse and inclusive website content, social media, and additional content, including an organizational race and equity statement.

Foresight has a long track record of helping public charter schools secure successful renewal and new charter authorizations. We rely on our political, legal, education policy, and stakeholder engagement expertise develop go-forward school playbooks through a 3 phase strategy: 

Phase 1: Political Landscape Analysis

Foresight first completes a political landscape analysis in order to give the supported school a panoramic view of the landscape at both the local and county office of education levels. These analyses inform the school’s theory of action in engaging its charter authorizer throughout the renewal process. This phase can include:  

(a) Political profiles on each of the members of the local and county boards of education identifying their key political issues, concerns, and positions; 
(b) A database of the organizations supporting the individual board members to identify potential allies and opponents; 

(c) Identification of key community members and organizations that can support the school toward renewal; and

(d) Detailed analysis of the local and county authorizers’ most recent charter renewal and agreed upon charter memorandum of understanding to identify the transferrable themes, questions, and tactics likely to be applied against the Foresight supported school. 

Phase 2: Internal Authorization / Renewal Strategy Development 

Foresight will next engage the school’s leadership team, faculty, staff, students, board members, and parents to identify organizational strengths, weaknesses, opportunities,   and threats to renewal, in addition to conducting a comprehensive review of student achievement and performance data. These qualitative and quantitative data review   processes will inform the school’s strategic offense and aggressive defense, and can include: 

(a) interviews with executive and departmental leaders to identify organizational strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats; 

(b) interviews with teachers, staff, students, and parents to develop supportive themes and defensive narrative creation; and

(c) a thorough review of academic performance data to elevate the supported school’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

Phase 3: Comprehensive Authorization / Renewal Campaign Playbook

Foresight will codify its data, research, and analysis into a go-forward renewal campaign playbook, inclusive of timelines, template correspondence for authorizer and school stakeholder engagement, and sequence of other key milestones to ensure benchmarked forward progress toward successful charter authorization and renewal.