SchoolKit has a team of 50 employees and over 200 contractors, which allows us to effectively staff projects of varying sizes and complexity. SchoolKit prioritizes conducting fair and equitable hiring processes that value diversity of experience and a variety of backgrounds. We do this by doing proactive outreach and recruitment to historically underrepresented groups. In our most recent round of hiring (May, 2023 – April 2024), 43% of our applicants identified as candidates of color and 72% of our hires identified as candidates of color. Between our full-time and contracted staff, about 30% identify as having a diverse background or are from underserved populations.

SchoolKit provides districts with district-level strategic planning, school leader coaching and training, and teacher training focused on supporting the district to improve the quality of instruction. These services are customized to the unique context of the district, where they might be in their HQIM journey, and the unique stakeholder group we are working with (e.g., instructional coaches). All services are fully aligned to the district’s HQIM, including role-specific curriculum-specific professional learning at the HQIM adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing implementation phases.

In every partnership, SchoolKit works with each school district to identify key stakeholders who need HQIM training and coaching based on their unique roles. We then provide customized training and coaching services that are role-specific for different levels of leaders (district leaders, principals/APs, coaches, and teachers). Our training attends to the specific instructional and leadership needs of these stakeholder groups (e.g., training for coaches may focus on leading PLCs and giving effective HQIM-aligned feedback, while teacher training focuses more on content and pedagogy). We then partner closely with the district team to design and deliver this plan.

We address equity and supporting all students by training and coaching teachers and leaders on the importance of HQIM as a critical foundation for equitable instruction. We explicitly train and coach educators to take an asset-based and culturally responsive approach to HQIM instruction. This approach helps students develop positive identities as readers, mathematicians, and scientists by leveraging students’ unique cultural and linguistic assets. To increase student access, we also provide training and coaching on how to use scaffolds to increase access and engagement with grade-level content for all students, including MLLs and SWDs.

Assessments are embedded throughout the course, including:

• 20-question untimed Knowledge Inventory (pre-assessment) following the course overview but preceding Tool 1 content
• 5-question untimed tests following Part 1 of each tool’s content (10 total)
• 10-question untimed tests following Part 2 of each tool’s content (10 total)
• 20-question untimed Knowledge Inventory (post-assessment) following completion of all course content.
• Participants must score at least 80 percent on each assessment to unlock content for the next Part or Tool in the course.

As an asynchronous course, participants can access Top 10 Tools whenever and wherever is convenient, including during the contractual school day.

HQIM Adoption Supports

Initial Implementation Supports

Ongoing Implementation: Support for Teachers

Ongoing Implementation: Support for Leaders

Professional Learning: Science of Reading

• Traditional District
• Charter
• Private
• Parochial
• Urban
• Suburban
• Rural
• Fewer than 2,500 students
• 2,500 to 10,000 students
• 10,000 to 50,000 students
• 50,000 to 100,000 students
• More than 100,000 students
• Greater than 60% of economically disadvantaged students
• Greater than 20% of English language learners
• Greater than 20% of students with disability
• Greater than 80% students of color

Thomas Edison Charter School

• K-5 Amplify CKLA Implementation
• K-5 Amplify CKLA Coaching

Colonial School District

• K-5 Amplify CKLA Implementation
• K-5 Amplify CKLA Coaching

Red Clay Consolidated School District

• K-2 ReadyGen, Math Expressions & DDOE Science Training