Curriculum, Policy, and Assessment Support for the Education Sector
Strengthen your project with expertise.
You have a great idea. Or at least it seems like a great idea.
There is tremendous pressure on state agencies, non-profits, school founders, and cultural institutions to innovate quickly. And there are historical pressures that make education change challenging, complex, and slow. This tension inevitably leads to rushed solutions, repetition of past failed initiatives, or a loss of faith between the field of education and the general public.
The reform landscape of education is shifting in real time. Now is not the time to dig in your heels and maintain the status quo; now is the time to lead with innovation.
My name is Matt Borek. With over two decades of experience in education policy and reform, plus theoretical and practical expertise in large-scale education change, I can help set you up for success.
Contact Me
Las Vegas, NV 89102
mborek@hb3education.com
Services Offered
Background Research
Your projects, proposals and initiatives will be stronger when supported by a thorough review of relevant research. Whether you would benefit from a landscape analysis, literature review, environmental scan, policy brief, or a 50-state scan, let me help create the research base and theoretical foundation you need.
Strategic Planning & Advising
Data Collection and Analysis
Senior leaders often benefit from facilitated ideation sessions at the beginning of a project. Articulating a theory of action and creating a draft logic model can provide a solid plan and accelerate your later work.
In addition, decades of research point to the critical importance of meaningful stakeholder engagement. I can help you identify relevant stakeholders, plan convenings, develop agendas, prepare materials, and facilitate sessions.
Whether you are preparing a grant response, gathering information from proposed partners, planning for project implementation, or developing an evaluation plan, the strength of your metrics and the quality of your analysis can make or break a project.
I can help review your proposed metrics and determine their alignment with project goals, design original data collection instruments including surveys and interview / focus group protocol, or analyze the results of your survey or qualitative data to generate larger insights. Whether you need descriptive statistics of survey responses, personas and journey maps to capture stakeholder perspectives, or coded qualitative data conclusions, I have experience with mixed methods analysis and reporting.
Curriculum and Policy Support
The world of education reform has become crowded. New schooling models are growing and expanding, new institutions are forming who are increasingly involved with the day-to-day work of schools, and state agencies are likely to assume a massive amount of new responsibilities as the federal role in education shrinks. This is also a moment of opportunity for cultural institutions and non-profits.
Whether you need support with curriculum mapping, program development, compliance reporting, or presenting on you reform idea, I can help advance your idea to the next step.
Get in Touch
Use the link below to send me a message or to arrange a brief introductory meeting.