How We Work

Brass Tacks is committed to leveraging proven practices, impactful tools, and practical research-based content as we partner with schools and organizations in enhancing their creative capacity to reframe and solve challenging problems in today’s dynamic educational landscape.

Processes & Tools

The processes and tools we use to partner with leadership teams in heightening overall wellness and success in schools and organizations are many. In order to fully tailor your experience with Brass Tacks to your unique needs, we leverage a proven framework with five phases of partnership as we walk alongside you in your journey.

5 Phases of Partnership with Brass Tacks

Partnership Services

  • Professional Development

    Offered in-person or virtually, we specifically tailor our PD to the unique needs of your school or district.

  • Coaching & Consulting

    With an emphasis on real-world application and impactful outcomes, we prepare you with the necessary tools and insights for success.

  • Improvement Projects

    Let us help you prioritize your improvement initiatives while strategically designing the most impactful path to improved performance.

  • Strategic & Business Planning

    Let us support you with proven systems and strategies that help you develop flexibility, foresight, and frameworks as you bring your growing campus into the future.

A Peek Behind the Curtain

The following processes are fluidly implemented throughout our partnerships.

  • As we work with you, we leverage improvement science to provide the tools necessary to start small, and learn from your efforts as you move forward.

  • The design thinking process allows us to support you through the five stages of empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test in order to develop the most elegant solutions to the most challenging problems. Through this process, improvement science allows us to reflect and make adjustments together as needed for optimal outcomes.

  • Additionally, ongoing professional learning is critical to creating lasting improvements, and includes coaching, trainings, intentional change, and deliberate practice.

  • Moreover, we consistently leverage the process of environmental scanning to identify internal and external challenges that may inhibit efficient movement toward long-term goals.

  • We implement the processes of market analysis and market segmentation in order to stay on top of the latest in educational and organizational best practices and trends as we partner with you to move your school forward and plan for the future.

  • As lifelong learners ourselves, we prioritize best facilitative practices and positive psychology processes throughout our work with leadership teams.

The Mechanics of Transformation

The tools we use to optimize progress toward organizational goals are varied and comprehensive. We believe that these proven resources can work in combination to most efficiently and effectively uncover and address critical needs and facilitate transformation. The content that we use to accompany these tools are rooted in best practices found in the latest research, and are distilled down to actionable playbooks for success.

Brass Tacks leverages the following tools throughout our partnerships with leaders:

  • System maps, root cause analysis, and driver diagrams

  • System and individual diagnostics

  • Empathy and asset maps

  • Flash surveys

  • Financial models

  • Positioning statements and value propositions

  • Competitive analysis

  • Logic models

  • Adoption curves

  • Research-based interventions