EDUCATION ACCELERATED
We Make
Heroes.
Great schools are built by great educators
Education Accelerated partners with school districts, international schools, associations, and mission-driven education organizations to build the educator development ecosystems that make great teaching sustainable and student learning personal.
40+
Years of field-tested experiece behind every engagement
Every
Stage of an educator's career from aspiring educator to system leader
26
Countries where our frameworks are in practice
Increased
Student growth in collaborative teaching environments versus solo classrooms
THE PROBLEM WE SOLVE
Most systems were built to manage educators, not to grow them.
Traditional degree programs, professional development, evaluation models, and leadership selection processes are fragmented at best. The infrastructure that great teaching demands: preparation pipelines, structured mentorship, talent development, meaningful advancement opportunities, doesn't exist in most places.
Education Accelerated exists to transform the way educators are prepared, developed, supported, and advanced throughout their careers.
1.
No Pipeline into the profession
The educators who will transform your schools are already in your communities, in your high schools, in your neighborhoods. Most systems have no structure for finding, preparing, or growing them for the classroom. That's not a talent shortage. That's a pipeline that was never built.
2.
The first years left
un-anchored
The most formative years of a teaching career are also the years that most systems invest the least in. New educators arrive with knowledge and preparation, only to face the hardest work of their lives largely alone. Structured mentorship and induction aren't remediation. They're what mastery is built on.
3.
No structured arc for a long career
The educator who has been teaching for fifteen years and has fifteen more to give deserves a path that keeps deepening. Most systems stop investing when the credential is earned. We believe development should span a career, because the best teaching is built over decades, not years.
THE ARC
The Educator's Journey
Most systems invest in two or three of them and call it a pipeline. We build all nine, because the hero's journey does not end at certification. It deepens across a forty-year career.
THRIVING EDUCATORS. THRIVING LEARNERS.
FUTURE EDUCATOR
High school students discovering teaching as a calling, before the college pipeline even begins.
APPRENTICESHIP
4,500+ structured clinical hours. Real classrooms, real mentors, real feedback, before a single roster is assigned.
RESIDENCY
The Educator Residency model, a clinical-year alternative to student teaching, grounded in competency milestones.
INDUCTION
Year one through three. The most formative and most abandoned years of a teaching career. We don't leave people here alone.
TALENT DEVELOPMENT
Years four through seven. Skills consolidate. Identity deepens. This is when most systems stop investing. We don't.
INSTRUCTIONAL
EXPERTISE
The practitioner who has command of the craft. The hinge point between growing and leading.
MENTORSHIP
The gold node. The educator who begins to grow other educators. This is the arc's most critical investment.
PEDAGOGICAL
EXPERTISE
Department chairs, instructional coaches, assistant principals. Leaders of educators who are still close to the classroom.
LEADERSHIP
Superintendents, heads of school, directors of learning. Leaders who shape the conditions for every educator below them.
OUR WORK
We work where
the stakes are highest.
PANAMA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC & GUYANA
International Educator Residency Consortium
Great schools grow from within. Early members are making a deliberate choice to invest in early-career teachers through structured mentorship. Together, they're pairing educators with trained mentors in an 18-month, competency-based residency.
GUATEMALA CITY
Colegio Americano de Guatemala
Nearly fifty stakeholders, board members, teachers, parents, and students, gathered for a 3-day Future of Learning Think Tank. Seven KeySTONE priorities. One unified direction for the next 80 years.
21 COUNTRIES · 5 CONTINENTS
AAIE Think Tank: Washington, DC
Forty international school leaders. Twenty-one countries. Five continents. EA designed and facilitated a two-day Think Tank that turned friction into forward momentum, sending every leader home with a concrete innovation playbook.
HOW WE WORK
Every engagement starts with your priority
We don’t show up with a pre-packaged solution. We start with a conversation about what’s at the top of your list, and build from there. Every EA engagement has a front door tailored to where you actually are.
FRONT DOOR 1.
Visioning & Alignment
Community visioning on how to bring residency models, collaborative teaching teams, purpose-driven learning, and deeper learning to life within your district.
FRONT DOOR 2.
Grow Your Own
Build a homegrown teacher pipeline through the Arc of an Educator program, identifying future educators in your high schools and communities and growing them into the classroom with structured mentorship.
FRONT DOOR 3.
Mentor Depth & Capacity
Develop the mentors who develop everyone else. Targeted programs that deepen mentor capacity and infrastructure, so your district can consistently support early-stage educators.
FRONT DOOR 4.
Leadership & Ecosystem Transformation
Grow leadership capacity for district-level ecosystem transformation, from building leaders to system leaders. For superintendents ready to move from managing a system to redesigning one.
OUR FRAMEWORKS
Structured. Targeted. Proven.
Every Education Accelerated engagement is structured around two proprietary frameworks. They are what separate a consulting visit from a lasting change in how a system operates.
FUSION
INNOVATIVE PLANNING PROCESS
The alternative to traditional strategic planning. EA's Think Tank model brings every voice into the room, board members, teachers, parents, and students, and produces a prioritized action architecture in days, not years. Systems that have tried conventional planning and found it too slow, too top-down, or too forgettable use FUSION instead.
KeySTONE
Structural · Timeless · Organizational · Non-negotiable · Ecosystem
The model that separates structural priorities from noise. Not every initiative is a KeySTONE move. The ones that are correctly identified reshape how an entire system allocates its energy. KeySTONE keeps leadership focused on what will still matter in ten years.
Global Community of Practice
INNOVATIVE PLANNING PROCESS
The alternative to traditional strategic planning. EA's Think Tank model brings every voice into the room, board members, teachers, parents, and students, and produces a prioritized action architecture in days, not years. Systems that have tried conventional planning and found it too slow, too top-down, or too forgettable use FUSION instead.
"Factories make widgets. Ecosystems grow people. We build ecosystems."
EDUCATION ACCELERATED
VOICES FROM THE WORK
What leaders say
when the system changes.
This work feels deeply aligned with who we are and who we are striving to become as a learning community. We are grateful to be partnering with you to set a strong foundation.
"
Audrey Menard, Ed.D.
Head of School, International School of Panama
Education Accelerated helps us challenge the limits and the boundaries of what is possible at CAG in ways that seem aligned, innovative, and actionable.
"
Don Francis
General Director, Colegio Americano de Guatemala
What Education Accelerated designs is rare, a process that brings every voice into the room and produces decisions that actually hold. Most schools plan. This community designed.
"
Kevin Mattingly
Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
OUR PEOPLE
Built by practitioners,
not theorists.
Every member of the Education Accelerated team has stood in front of a classroom, led a school, or built a system from scratch. We don’t consult from a distance. We work from inside.
Dr. David Palumbo
Co-founder and Chairman
A first-generation college graduate from Uniontown, PA, David brings four decades of experience as an educator, researcher, entrepreneur, and corporate executive innovating learning experiences across 26 countries. Former senior advisor to Avenues: The World School, He holds an Ed.D. in Educational Psychology from West Virginia University and is the author of THE LAST TEACHERS.
Alicia Densford
Co-founder and CEO
Alicia has spent three decades across education leadership, consulting, and system design, including founding Leading Edge Consulting and serving in leadership roles at Degree Analytics and the After-School Opportunity Lab. She holds an M.A. in Teaching and specializes in translating bold ideas into practical, sustainable systems schools can execute.
Fred Greene III
Operating Partner, Education Environments
Fred brings nearly two decades of large-scale real estate development experience, including work on over 3 million square feet of projects in the Washington, D.C. area. He is the co-founder of Project Destined, a national nonprofit that teaches real estate development to underrepresented youth, and now applies that expertise to designing world-class learning environments.
Rich Boerner
Chief Innovation Officer
Rich has spent his career at the intersection of education and organizational strategy, with international leadership experience at the American School of São Paulo, the American International School Dhaka, and Korea International School. A Teachers College, Columbia University Head of School Fellow, he also serves as CEO of TruFit Talent, where he focuses on transforming how schools find and retain great educators.
Dr. Zoltan Sarda
Chief of Learning Experience
A late-career entrant to the classroom, Dr. Sarda was a founding member of High Tech High in California, serving as Assistant Director of Credentialing and Teacher Development. He has spent 35 years working with students and teachers across the U.S. and South America, including extensive work at Avenues: The World School. He brings deep expertise in designing deeper, more purpose-driven learning experiences.
Dr. Charles Xavier
Chief of Educational Neuroscience
An educational neuroscientist and author of Neurofables, a children's book series designed to build better brains through cognitive blueprints and neuroplasticity. At Education Accelerated, Charlie architects cognitively aligned learning systems — from four-year teacher apprenticeship programs to our 10-month international residency — ensure all our of practices are grounded in learning science
Dr. Lisa McCray Cannon
Operating Partner, Collaborative Teaching
Lisa has served as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, school principal, and senior program manager with ASU's Next Education Workforce initiative, where she helped design team-based models wrapping multiple educators around shared learners. She is also a founding member of the East Valley Alliance of Black School Educators and CEO of EduFinderK12.
Shannon Hobbs-Beckley
Operating Partner, School Leadership
An ICF-certified leadership and performance coach with nearly three decades of PreK–12 experience across international and U.S. schools, Shannon has served as an instructional coach, school administrator, and senior leadership team member. She is the founder of Shannon Beckley Coaching & Consulting and currently serves our LATAM International Residency mentorship cohort.
Jake Nelson
Intern, Business Analysis
A senior at the University of North Texas studying data analytics, Jake brings experience from Degree Analytics where he worked on data-driven solutions for college campuses. At Education Accelerated, he serves as the team's "Problem Finder," building data models that sharpen education solutions. Jake's curiosity and tenacity are a great addition to our team.
BEGIN THE JOURNEY
Your educators are ready.
Your learners are waiting.
We know what thriving educators look like, and we know what they make possible for every student in front of them. EA works with a small number of partners at any given time. That's by design. Tell us what's at the top of your list and we'll take it from there.