Education Company Enters Consulting Market

Madison, WI April 13, 2011 – K-12 professional development resource company Inside the School will begin offering consulting services to school districts beginning in May 2011.

Since 2008 Inside the School has produced, developed and marketed online seminars geared toward helping school teachers and administrators from across the country solve problems in practical ways and receive training on various topics.

In late 2010 Inside the School saw a huge opportunity that was a natural fit.
“The online seminar presenters we are working with are being offered consulting engagements from schools that discovered them through Inside the School so we thought what a perfect opportunity,” says company president Bill Haight. “There is definitely a need for consultants and we already have most of the pieces in place.”

Inside the School will begin by working with consultants who have experience in six categories. Those categories are:

• Teacher evaluation, Value-added assessment
• College Readiness, Common Core State Standards
• School turnaround/transformation
• Charter school development
• SROI/efficiency
• School climate

“We wanted to focus our resources in areas that are the most in demand and we can supply the best consultants for,” says Haight. “With federal and state governments offering improvement grants and state standards being tightened there is a need now more than ever for consultants.”

Seminole School Board in Florida approved over $260,000 on consultants in one night in August 2010. In December the Dallas school board sought to spend one million dollars on outside consultants. With the Obama administration’s Race to the Top program, schools are hustling to find help.

The education industry has faced budget cuts and uncertainty just like the rest of the country over the past few years, but that can be good news for education consultants.

“Schools have to be more careful than ever before with their budgets,” says Haight. “But it means funds are being allocated to the most qualified consultants. We’re confident we will provide the best consultants and service.”

With an increasing achievement gap and test scores on a continual downward spiral, schools must take drastic steps to turn things around.

“We see the situations schools are in and they need help. The schools simply need help to get better and we want to do that,” says Haight. “We want to help teachers become more effective, administrators to be able to lead during tough times, and we want school districts to improve. Our consulting service and products will help schools do that.”

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Inside the School is a part of publisher Magna Publications. Magna Publications, Inc. is a well-known communications company that publishes higher education newsletters and manages onsite and audio conferences. Since William Haight founded the company in 1972, it has grown to employ a staff of 31 in the production of ten newsletters, three national conferences, numerous audio conferences, and a business magazine.

Inside the School has been operating since the summer of 2008. It offers an online newsletter and e-zine that delivers teaching tips and strategies to middle and high school educators. Inside the School provides entire schools with national-level speakers with interactive audio and video online seminars and CDs.

2718 Dryden Drive
Madison, WI 53704

Bill Haight, President
608-227-8111
Bill.Haight@magnapubs.com
https://www.InsidetheSchool.com

This release was published on openPR.