Business Process Improvement

SCG's business, technology and education experience enables us to develop and implement transformation strategies that will help school districts better understand, better manage and better position their organizations for the future. With experience in the application of a variety of business improvement methodologies, including Baldrige and Six Sigma, SCG has the tools and expertise to ensure that your investments in education result in positive, lasting transformation.

Strategic Planning Services

SCG recognizes that an effective strategic planning process utilizes the unique Board and Superintendent leadership model to connect the community with the work of the district for the benefit of students. This results in the board's adoption of mission, vision and belief statements that reflect the community's highest aspirations and expectations for both district operations and student outcomes. The planning process also ensures the superintendent establishes overarching goals, specific objectives, milestones, measurable targets and strategic initiatives which reflect community interests and ensure the district's ability to manage, sustain, and continuously improve its efforts to fulfill its mission and achieve the community vision of excellence in student performance.

SCG understands that an effective strategic plan:

• Is based on your district's data and community input
• Encompasses mission critical functions
• Aligns performance objectives and measurable targets
• Includes coherent strategies that build capacity
• Identifies long and short term goals
• Facilitates action planning and change management
• Fosters partnerships
• Ensures accountability

SCG's process enables districts to:

• Engage community in defining the district's vision and mission and core beliefs
• Understand the district's current state and the scope and sequence of actions necessary for progress toward the desired state
• Create an action planning framework that aligns goals, objectives and strategies with the district's mission, vision and core beliefs
• Energize community support for the action planning framework
• Sustain the district's ability to align, manage and continuously improve the work which fulfills its mission and achieves its community's vision of student and organizational performance excellence

Change Management

SCG designs and initiates the change management process that is vital to ensure the success of any project, from business process improvements to full-scale ERP implementations. As the organization transforms itself, it is critical to ensure that the people within the organization understand, accept and adapt to the changes, and that transition takes place in a systematic way.

SCG's organizational change management process involves:

• Conducting readiness assessments;
• Engaging senior managers as change leaders or sponsors;
• Building awareness of the need for change through focus groups and other public relations and communication tools;
• Providing the training and education necessary to support the change;
• Helping employees through the transition by offering coaching from managers and supervisors; and,
• Establishing measurement systems, rewards and reinforcement to sustain the change.

Professional Development

SCG's Professional Development services provide educators with the tools they need to maximize student achievement.

SCG offers Professional Development in several key areas:

• Educational Leadership
• Use of Technology in Improving Instruction
• Implementation of RTI Strategies
• Principal and School Administrator Leadership Development

Identification, Implementation and Effective Use of Data Systems

SCG provides stakeholders with the data-driven tools and information to make critical and informed decisions that maximize efficiencies within school districts and increase student achievement. SCG will not only help you gather the information that is available, more importantly, it will assist in analyzing and using the information to continuously improve school performance. SCG will assist school districts in identifying solutions for their instructional needs and implementing solutions that maximize student success and empower teachers and administrators.

• Learning Management Systems
• Assessment
• Data Warehousing
• Curriculum

Special Education

SCG provides consultation services related to special education, student services and alternative programs. SCG's goal is to provide specific strategies to:

• Increase efficiency of the budget process and related expenditures
• Reduce placements in nonpublic institutions
• Expand public special education program options
• Promote the use of RTI to avoid the overplacement of students into Special Education programs
• Design effective alternative programs
• Design effective and efficient special education staffing models
• Improve complaint management
• Design tools to monitor special education identification and least restrictive environment (LRE) data
• Design systems to monitor compliance issues
• Increase collaboration between general and special education personnel, at the school and central office levels
• Design effective, collaborative problem solving models at the school and central office levels
• Design professional development for both general and special education teachers

Stakeholder Relations Superintendent - School Board Relations

We understand that empowered superintendents are supported by school boards focused on providing effective governance and fostering positive community relations. Services we provide that support excellence in governance and stakeholder relations include:

• Defining and developing operating principles & protocols based on roles and responsibilities
• Alignment and accountability in policy, planning and strategy
• Creating and sustaining a culture of continuous improvement
• District and community connections and communications
• Planning/facilitating board retreats and new member orientations
Union - School District Relations

Human Resources

SCG offers the following HR services, ensuring that school districts manage this critical resource in a way that most effectively supports their core mission:

• Determining staffing requirements
• Implementing deployment strategies
• Searching/recruiting key administration personnel
• Identifying and retaining quality staff
• Team building
• Diversity training
• Evaluation systems and services