OUR PROMISE

ADVANCING EQUITY SOLUTIONS THAT TRANSFORM EDUCATION

You matter! This is why our team takes pride in working with you to customize equity solutions that meet your needs and leverage your opportunities.

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OUR
EXPERIENCE

We are a supportive community committed to advancing equity in education. We center youth, communities, and families, providing humanizing approaches to applied research and evaluation, technical assistance, professional learning, facilitation, and other services all based on decades of research and experience to transform schools and advance learning in the pursuit of justice in education and beyond it. The forwardED® team is comprised of visionary experts and organizational change agents who understand the diverse needs of our partners. We are driven by our core values, which guide how we live and work. Learn more about how we can work together!

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We inspire . . .

proven results through collaborative partnerships that advance equity, which is about creating systems that work for the people they serve and serving people through the systems that are intentionally designed to be most responsive to their needs. Read our Equity Statement!

Engagement

We collaborate with partners to create sustainable improvement through research-based professional learning opportunities that address: infrastructure, organization, curriculum, instruction, and achievement through multiple modes of engagement.

Creation

We believe in collective agency, that the best way to predict our futures is to create them. We collaborate with partners to imagine, design, and implement a set of creative solutions that are inclusive in their development and participatory in their approach.

Innovation

We help our partners design changes in their infrastructure by introducing new research-informed methods, insights, ideas, and products. To achieve equity in education, not everything needs to be changed; some things simply need to be reimagined.

Transformation

To achieve equity in education, some things must be transformed. We collaborate with our partners to transform mindsets, practices, and policies, while reshaping dynamics of power and patterns of achievement, offering inspiring solutions that lead to real and lasting systems change.

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250+

SCHOOLS AND ORGANIZATIONS TRANSFORMED

The forwardED ® team has successfully supported more than 250 schools, districts, and non-profit organizations across the United States to advance equity and promote positive and lasting change.

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15+

YEARS COLLABORATING WITH PARTNERS

The forwardED ® team has been serving diverse communities—urban, suburban, and rural—since 2001. We pride ourselves on being diverse, inclusive, and deeply rooted in the communities we partner with.

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250,000+

CHILDREN AND YOUTH IMPACTED

We are proud to have helped create a long-term trajectory of success for hundreds of thousands of children across the US and the globe. We center the young people you work with and ground all our work in what we believe is best for them.

Inspiration

If you can’t fly, then run; if you can’t run, then walk; if you can’t walk, then crawl; but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / Civil Rights Advocate and Nobel Laureate

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Let's Partner

Find out how we can partner to create and sustain a long-term trajectory of growth. Click the "Learn More" button below for more information about the services we provide and ways that you can schedule a conversation with us today.

Applied Research & Evaluation

Our applied research and evaluation services intentionally center equity and systemic change and emanate from a culturally responsive-sustaining education approach.

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Technical Assistance & Professional Learning

Our technical assistance services provide a number of professional learning and staff development opportunities and tools, including implicit bias and DEI trainings as well as leadership dialogues.

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General Services & Consulting

We provide personalized services and general consulting, including a roster of featured speakers who present on topics related to school transformation and education equity.

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Meet Some of Our Partners

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Education gave my life meaning. Educators gave it a chance. While I may never be able to pay them all back, I'm determined to pay them all forward. What we have to offer is not behind us; it's always in front of us. Let's look ahead . . . together.