Education Support Consulting helps clients realize their goals. We provide outstanding strategy, planning, implementation, leadership coaching, labor relations, & leader selection guidance and solutions. This allows our clients to focus on the improvement of:

• teaching, learning, and life outcomes for all students;

• positive & productive work environments for those entrusted with serving students;

• organizational and leadership development & effectiveness;

• equity of access and outcome; and

• stakeholder relationships.

act

with honesty, integrity, and respect

advance

educational equity—access, quality, and outcomes for all students

Deliver

quality, professionalism, and timeliness

Integrate

what has been and what is with what is envisioned or recommended

listen

to honor and balance diverse perspectives from stakeholders and communities

redress

racist, sexist, and classist structures, systems, & practices embedded within educational institutions

PARTNER

to arrive at solutions based on the best evidence and input available

“Jana was recommended to me by a friend and colleague who is a national leader in evaluation and assessment, especially as it relates to social justice. Jana came to the work with fierce intellect, bringing insight into the data analysis, challenging assumptions and deepening the collective lens to create new research based frameworks. Her writing is impeccable and flawless. She provides leadership to connect data to systems change, outlining the throughline between conclusions and impactful action.

Most recently, Jana led members of our team to collaboratively design a recruitment, hiring and onboarding system for our company. As a Native company, this required that the systems generated reflect our values, cultural approaches (primarily Lakota), and would work within Native recruitment norms of the Northern Plains.

Recruiting Native candidates is challenging because mainstream hiring infrastructure is not inclusive of Native candidates. To successfully reach this market requires engaging informal Native social networks and generating marketing materials reflective of our region's shared tribal values and culture. Not only did the process generate a competitive pool of applicants, ti built our internal capacity and grew the leadership of our team. Jana worked closely with two Native team members who are young in their careers (34 and 20), providing mentorship and guidance while appropriately centering their voice, contributions, and insight. I have witnessed my team grow in confidence, voice, and capacity under Jana's leadership. With strong grounding in equity, our team valued Jana's leadership ni this space and sought her out to strengthen processes, materials, and provide guidance.”

—Jael Kampe, President Indigenous Impact Co.

Jana came to the work with fierce intellect, bringing insight into the data analysis, challenging assumptions and deepening the collective lens to create new research based frameworks.

Dr. Carlisle always maintained a professional posture coupled with an unwavering focus

“With numerous responsibilities in an often politically challenging environment, Dr. Carlisle always maintained a professional posture coupled with an unwavering focus on the academic and social-emotional needs of our 86,000 students. I strongly believe that her ability to communicate, analyze data, unify leaders and manage projects will serve her clients in an exceptional way.”

—Mary Pierce, former Metro Nashville Public Schools Board Member

“During my tenure in the Rochester City School District as a member and president of the Board, Dr. Carlisle was the liaison to several Board committees. In this capacity, she provided the Board of Education with exceptional guidance regarding effective policy development and implementation. For example, Dr. Carlisle was instrumental in developing the elementary school choice policy, which helped balance ethnic and socio-economic demographics and academics across elementary attendance zones.”

—Dr. Bolgen Vargas, former Rochester City School District (RCSD) Board member & Board President, and former RCSD Superintendent & Manchester School District

she provided the Board of Education with exceptional guidance

“I have had the pleasure of working with Dr. Carlisle for many years in education policy for Washington state. This work includes for the Washington State Board of Education, Governor’s Office, for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Partnership for Learning, and Excellent Schools Now Coalition. Jana’s work is always of high quality. She listens carefully to her clients, works well with diverse teams, and creates a timely product.”

—Edie Harding, Olympia, Washington

She listens carefully to her clients, works well with diverse teams, and creates a timely product

“All in all, and based upon my knowledge of top-notch educational leaders gained as a long-time superintendent and state agency deputy, Dr. Carlisle is a can’t-miss expert for major consulting projects targeting large, complex, and multi-faceted urban school districts and organizations focused on them. She can see and understand different perspectives on issues and is not a person who becomes overly committed or possessive to any particular initiative. She is pragmatic—a trait that makes her uniquely qualified to provide insights to districts and organizations where various perspectives are valued. She is smart, quick witted, articulate, politically savvy, kid-oriented, knowledgeable about educational policy, a strong presenter, people-oriented, and technologically advanced; understands and values diversity; and possesses high integrity and an incredible work ethic.”

—Alan Burke, Executive Director, Washington State School Retirees' Association

Dr. Carlisle is a can’t-miss expert for major consulting projects

JANA FACILITATED A SMOOTH OVERALL PROCESS

“The key to our team’s success was Jana’s group facilitation skills, planning ahead for projects, and establishing reasonable, yet appropriate timelines for project completion. Prior to diving into a project, Jana identified and openly communicated potential roadblocks early by completing necessary research and collaboratively establishing a strategy based upon the team’s collective strengths, ensuring a smooth overall process.”

—Sandra Schultz, Head of Human Resources, Alpine Learning Group