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Featured Work Snapshot Sora Schools
2021-2022
I worked with Sora to align their learner-centered mission with its grade 7-12 school systems, communications, and student and faculty orientations in order to strengthen their school culture and community. I also helped them identify faculty roles and responsibilities, design and implement a student advisory system, and initiate a professional learning community for the Sora faculty.
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Faculty Coaching & Program Development
In dynamic and interactive ways, I support faculty, leaders, and learners to implement and strengthen learner-centered cultures and classrooms as well as competency-based learning design and assessment. I help:
- Coach personalized learning instruction
- Provide student & faculty strategies for learner agency and self-directed learning
- Build cultures of engagement and belonging for youth & adults alike
- Design competency-based curriculum & performance assessments
Strategic Planning & Change Management
🌱A school's innovations are precious seeds of potential for their learners and families, therefore their implementation needs require mindful care in order to thrive.🌱
I help school initiative teams and leaders to successfully transition their:
- Faculty
- Families
- Communities
- Learners
to new models of learning and assessment.
I provide strategies, resources, advice, and jump right in to work side-by-side as needed. Together we:
🔹 Create communication plans & materials.
🔹 Clarify what has yet to be identified or defined.
🔹 Set targeted outcomes & timelines.
Virtual Accelerator
Here with LiFT Learning (the CBE, personalized learning platform I co-founded) you can join a 6-week virtual accelerator program designed to keep your team moving along the path of transformation.
- Review foundational competency-based learning & learner-centered concepts
- Create capacity and sustainability in your instructional practice, policy, and cultural shifts.
- Design a personalized action plan
- Get 1:1 support to create a personalized model that addresses your specific 'problem of practice'.
Personalized Support
I meet one on one with educators, innovators, and leaders to strategize or workshop. We can:
- Ideate & iterate
- Identify issues & obstacles
- Generate solutions & strategize for success
"Josie is so like my coach. I often come to a call feeling frustrated or stuck, but then leave our session feeling newly committed to my work and energized with new solutions."
~ Emily Smith, middle school principal
Skill Testimonials
Energy & Ethos
Strategy & Design
Strategy & Design
Enthusiasm, enterprise, empathy and deep engagement: these are the attributes of an innovator, a caring and sensitive educator, and an ardent crusader for authentic teaching and learning. Josie Jordan embodies all of these and more; her energy and wholehearted embrace of any credo she supports defines her way of being; her unstinting and
Enthusiasm, enterprise, empathy and deep engagement: these are the attributes of an innovator, a caring and sensitive educator, and an ardent crusader for authentic teaching and learning. Josie Jordan embodies all of these and more; her energy and wholehearted embrace of any credo she supports defines her way of being; her unstinting and immersive working style transforms promise into reality.
~ Melanie Stultz-Backus, Teacher Leader
Strategy & Design
Strategy & Design
Strategy & Design
Josie made many incredible contributions and her partnership helped us establish a positive culture and approach to student, family, and faculty orientation at Sora. She guided our growth--from communication consistency to developing ongoing protocols for Professional Learning. I am grateful to her for her contributions in all these key
Josie made many incredible contributions and her partnership helped us establish a positive culture and approach to student, family, and faculty orientation at Sora. She guided our growth--from communication consistency to developing ongoing protocols for Professional Learning. I am grateful to her for her contributions in all these key areas. She really helped us develop a strong and meaningful approach in these areas as we grow, and for that we are all incredibly grateful.
~ Chris Wilson, Director of Schools
Dynamic Teacher
Strategy & Design
Dynamic Teacher
Any school community is lucky to welcome Josie into their fold. She is one of the most innovative, highly-skilled, and engaging teachers I have worked with. Josie brings light and laughter. She brings a wealth and range of experience that enriches even the most robust learning environment. I am so excited for the next school where Josie w
Any school community is lucky to welcome Josie into their fold. She is one of the most innovative, highly-skilled, and engaging teachers I have worked with. Josie brings light and laughter. She brings a wealth and range of experience that enriches even the most robust learning environment. I am so excited for the next school where Josie would bring her teaching to faculty and learners.
~ Lisa Grzyb, Personalized Learning Teacher
Thought Partner
Strategy & Design
Dynamic Teacher
Josie brings a high level of energy and an optimistic outlook to her work. She is a collaborative thought partner with a solutions-oriented approach. Leading with her unique education experience, Josie helps to clearly identify needs and to design creative and impactful possibilities. As an advisor and consultant, Josie is willing to roll
Josie brings a high level of energy and an optimistic outlook to her work. She is a collaborative thought partner with a solutions-oriented approach. Leading with her unique education experience, Josie helps to clearly identify needs and to design creative and impactful possibilities. As an advisor and consultant, Josie is willing to roll up her sleeves to add immediate value to a team.
~ Katie Sowa, Director of Community