What We Do
Every young person deserves a school that prepares them for career, college, and life, not just a diploma.
Districts are asked to do more every year, usually without more money or more people. New programs come and go. What holds is a plan the district's own people helped build and know how to run.
We partner with leaders on the hardest part, turning a good idea into daily practice. We start where you are, help set a clear direction, design the work with the people who will run it, and stay long enough for it to take hold.
When a project calls for research, we bring in researchers to support it.
A lot of good plans fade the day the consultant leaves. Ours are built to keep running without us.
We design the routines, tools, and know-how into your own team, so the work holds through budget years and staff turnover. Plans hold when the people who run them helped build them.
Built to Last
The Questions We Help Districts Answer
Every district is different. Most of our work starts with a question like one of these.
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How do we build a career pathway our local employers will actually hire from?
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How do we redesign our high school so more students leave with a credential and a plan?
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How do we set a direction our staff and families will stand behind?
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How do we grow the leaders we need from inside our own district?
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How do we tell whether our programs are working, and fix the ones that are not?
We Have Done This Work
Our consultants have worked inside schools and districts at every level, from the classroom to the central office to the state, and with the nonprofits and workforce partners that serve young people.
We know what a district's day actually looks like, because we have lived it. That is what lets us design plans that fit real schedules, real budgets, and real people.
When a project needs a research base or an outside evaluation, we have researchers ready to join the team.
What We Work On
Teaching and Learning
We help schools strengthen instruction and design learning models that serve every student, from the classroom to whole-school redesign.
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Who We Work With
We partner with people who are ready to lead their own change and want to do right by their young people. That includes:
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School districts, from single-high-school rural systems to larger systems
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Individual schools and their leaders, public, charter, and private
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State education agencies and state-level initiatives
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Nonprofits and youth-serving organizations
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Community colleges and workforce partners
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Economic and community development groups
Districts are the heart of our work. We partner with others when they are the ones starting the change.
Every engagement is scoped to what your district needs and what it can carry.
We size the work with you, from a short focused project to a multi-year partnership, and we are clear from the start about what we will do and what your team will do.
When a price question comes up, we answer it.
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Our Work
SPOTLIGHT:
ATLANTIC COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, IOWA
By the numbers:
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About 1,600 students, K-12
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One high school
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Southwest Iowa
Challenge: Atlantic set out to strengthen everyday instruction across the district and to build a career-connected model at the high school, The Trojan Forge, that connects students to local employers and to life after graduation.
Customized Support: We are partnering with district and school leaders to sharpen core instruction and to design and stand up The Trojan Forge. The district's own staff are leading the design and will run it, so the work holds after we step back.
"An amazing gift of guidance and direction for my team and myself. You set us up with a great road map."
— Dr. Beth Johnsen, Superintendent
Who We Are
TraxMethod Consulting Group is a team of education consultants based in Washington, DC.
We work mostly with rural districts, the kind with one high school and not much slack in the budget, where a good plan has to do more with what is already there. We also work with nonprofits, community colleges, and workforce and community partners when they are the ones starting the change.
Our consultants have led at every level of the system and served young people through the organizations built around them. We bring in researchers when the work calls for it. We are the people who do the work with you, not a report you file away.
Let's Talk
Tell us a little about your district and what you are trying to do. We will get back to you to set up a time.