Empowering Schools to Innovate and Solve Complex Educational Challenges

We partner with schools and organizations to enhance your creative capacity to reframe and solve challenging problems in a dynamic educational landscape.

Focus on what you can control.

  • Teacher Retention

    Is teacher turnover becoming a critical concern for your school or district? Have the mitigation strategies you’ve implemented to address this issue yielded less than noticeable improvements? If so, your system might be contributing to the problem, as every system is designed to achieve the results it produces. Let us help you create a teacher retention system instead.

  • Workplace Cultures

    Educators' jobs are increasingly difficult, especially post-COVID, with more and more expectations and deliverables assigned to them daily. This stress is worsened by a lack of support and continuous learning in the workplace culture. Creating a healthy workplace culture while prioritizing teacher well-being and support is crucial to making teaching sustainable.

  • Leadership Development

    The role of an educational leader is inherently unpredictable, with constant changes and diverse responsibilities making each moment unique. This unpredictability can heighten stress, hinder creative problem-solving, and sap the necessary flexibility for success. If these challenges resonate with you, we're here to help.

  • Organizational Improvement

    Is your school or district growing faster than anticipated or facing more changes than expected? Gaining strategic skills that allow you to plan ahead for desired outcomes in unpredictable scenarios can save time and money. Let us help you navigate these challenges successfully.

  • Leveraging AI

    AI is poised to significantly impact education, surpassing past technological promises with its rapid adoption, and will affect every employee and student, requiring leaders to proactively manage its integration to avoid reactive pitfalls. Let us help you navigate the transformative AI era effectively.

Pain Points We Address

  • Teachers leave when they feel unsupported. It’s not the money, it’s the culture. We can help pinpoint exactly which changes are most likely to yield the biggest benefits to your team.

  • Sucking it up isn’t a strategy, it’s a coping mechanism. We use a proprietary diagnostic to assess which demands weigh heaviest on your staff so that we can collaborate on finding more balance to drive better outcomes.

  • Teachers’ jobs are more overwhelming than ever before. We’ll teach you specific, easy, and quick to implement strategies to help teachers not just survive, but thrive in a complex environment.

  • Many schools and organizations struggle to stay agile amidst constant changes. At Brass Tasks, we address this pain point by developing a comprehensive future-readiness plan and creating adaptive strategies to help you navigate and respond effectively to ongoing challenges.

  • Many leaders face challenges in effectively integrating generative AI into their schools, as teachers resist what they believe to be a steep learning curve. We address this by providing training to equip your leaders with the skills needed to leverage generative AI successfully.

Outcomes You Can Expect

  • Balancing job demands and resources will directly impact staff stress and burnout. Let us help you get started with our systematic approach to addressing this enormous problem. We will partner with you to identify and address the root causes impeding teacher retention in your school.

  • As you apply our retention framework to your culture, not only will staff see welcome changes in their work environment, but you’ll experience a greater sense of job satisfaction as you tailor your efforts to better align to what teachers need in order to stay in their jobs long term.

  • Beyond our initial assessment of your school’s specific job demands and resources situation, you’ll gain knowledge and tools to help you measure and respond to increasing the balance between the demands you place on staff and the resources you provide to meet those demands. We'll help you learn about to adapt to uncertainty and create more innovative thinking and problem solving among your team.

  • At Brass Tasks, we help schools and organizations become more agile by creating a comprehensive future-readiness plan and building adaptive strategies to respond to the constant changes you face.

  • We will teach your leaders how to leverage generative AI and integrate it into their schools.

Featured Resources

  • The Daily SEL Leader [Book]

    Social-emotional learning is one of the hottest education topics today. Most of the focus, however, has been at the student level. The truth is that school leaders can’t implement social-emotional learning effectively if they don’t deeply understand it for themselves.

  • Teacher Retention Model [Playbook]

    Turnover is increasing and intensifying, so what can education leaders do over the long term to retain more of their teachers? This playbook aims to provide educational leaders like you with specific researchbased strategies that we’ve woven into Brass Tacks’ Teacher Retention Model (TRM).

  • Navigating the AI Revolution [Playbook]

    Generative AI is moving faster than any technology we've ever seen in society, with major impacts on nearly every industry, including education. This playbook aims to provide school and district leaders with a brief playbook to start leading the transformation of schools into the AI era.

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Testimonials

  • Bailey and Weiner have gifted educators with a multi-tool guide in The Daily SEL Leader. . . inserting SEL inputs within a continuous improvement cycle and a step-by-step instructional manual on exactly how to integrate social emotional learning competencies into everyday spaces.

    Sara M. Burd

    RDT Director of Social Emotional Learning and Counseling, Arlington Public Schools- Arlington, MA Council of Distinguished Educators, National Commission on Social Emotional and Academic Development

  • The Daily SEL Leader is a comprehensive and practical resource that will guide educational leaders to understand, practice and model SEL skills. This book is written for educators, by educators. It is insightful, functional and will foster impactful leadership.

    Michelle L. Trujillo

    Author, Start with the Heart: Igniting Hope in Schools through Social and Emotional Learning

  • Wise leaders know that we are truly only in charge of our own selves, and that we can achieve tremendous personal growth by fine-tuning our social and emotional skills. Bailey and Weiner’s Daily SEL Leader shows the way.

    Julie Lythcott-Haims

    New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult and Real American

  • As a busy school principal, I love the accessibility of The Daily SEL Leader. Written in short, easy to digest modules, this book gives me a daily burst of inspiration, grounding me in the core SEL skills that I seek to deepen in my leadership.

    Lillian Hsu

    Principal of Latitude 37.8, an XQ Super School, Former Principal of High Tech High, Chula Vista, Oakland, CA