MSSP Solutions – Page 2 – School Development Support

Catalytic Agents in Education

At MSSP Solutions our focus is on helping schools be adaptive and responsive in building opportunities to enhance student learning.

In our fifteen years in the field - working with schools in communities across the country:
MSSP has established a track record of successful work with school systems as evidenced by our efforts in support of:
..... District superintendents, cabinets, boards
..... School leaders and school founders
..... Non-profit organizations
..... Traditional district and charter schools
..... School systems in multiple regions across the U.S.

Our primary focus is working with school development teams to plan, build capacity and improve instructional and leadership practices. We bring a background that includes student engagement, adaptive learning, leadership development, strategic planning, technology based solutions, and addressing the unforeseen operational and instructional challenges of school communities.

Watch our blog posting below for the latest news, research and ideas facing schools today.

The Interweave

Human society is driven by the interweave of our separate identities. It is our capacity to build and work within the warp and weft of...

LEAD | PLAN | SUPPORT

What is it we are changing? How? How do we know what has changed? What will we do to get closer to our intent?

Geeky about Process

I admit to this much – I like thinking about process, and I have evidence – stacks of diagrams, outlines, flowcharts and whiteboard scratchings mapping a broad range of abstract notions about learning and organizations, – middle of the night outlines index finger tapped into Evernote or whichever app is…

Resistance and Design Intervention

First – That’s design not divine, OK? We are talking about outcomes that have to be worked for not wished for… In a Wall Street Journal Irving Wladawsky-Berger discusses an idea pulled from a series of four articles in the September Harvard Business Review on the Evolution of Design Thinking.…

Feedback and Data — The metronome of a blended classroom

Read this subhead in an article this morning and knew I had to have it: Feedback and Data 　– The metronome of a blended classroom. This a subheading in an EdSurge article about the strategy an Aspire school used in implementing a rotational blended learning model. A quote from the…

Getting to the Next Right Thing

We used to live in a world where few directed many: where one coach told his players to run this play; where a military general commanded a battalion to take that hill; where a CEO told his team to make those numbers. In that world everyone’s job was to use…

My computer earned a Smiley

Last year I replaced a rapidly fading laptop. The old one had been durable, traveling to schools across the country for six or seven years. The new one, a wide screen, touchscreen, convertible, was getting its break-in during the start-up of a new school we were supporting. Getting late into…

15 years later…

MSSP launched fifteen years ago when we took on a grant funded challenge to address learning opportunities for urban students by developing local school models in partnership with eight school districts, each school designed for the learning needs of the community. Each model was intended to be unique, designed by…

Context Sensitive School Design

Applying Context Sensitive Variables in Schools and School System Design A core element in using Context Sensitive Variables in design of schools and school systems is the intentional establishment of an instructional environment that is defined by the “context” variables that are key to achieving your intent. Context sensitive design…