Impact Leadership

Our Services

Individual Leadership Coaching

Regular (weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly) coaching sessions focused on the leader’s identified area(s) for growth. Coaching involves problem-solving, planning, role-playing, and practice sessions. Coaching can be in-person o remote as identified by the client.

English Learner Program Supports

Program design support to develop programs that effectively create environments for English learners that are simultaneously inclusive, rigorous, and supportive and meet all relevant state and federal guidelines.

Leadership Development Workshops

As requested by the client. Past workshops include Emerging Leaders (workshop series for teacher leaders and deans), Instructional Coaching and Feedback, Unifying Your Leadership Team Around Your School’s Mission and Vision, Leveraging Lesson Planning and Feedback Structures, and Designing and Leading Schools for English Learners .

Testimonials

I highly recommend Dr. Even's support to any school looking to create a school culture that it truly inclusive to students designated as English Language Learners. Dr. Even shares her expertise about how to best serve our ELL students by incorporating research-proven practices into core instruction. We have worked with her extensively to design new school models and to improve existing models and have been grateful for her support.

Amanda Gardner, VP Schools, Innovate Public Schools

Johanna has a high bar for excellence which allows her to see our schools through our eyes and provide quick, rigorous and actionable feedback. She listens for our priorities and coaches leaders for both immediate and long term impact.

Eve Colavito, Chief Education Officer, Dream Charter Schools

Johanna’s coaching was tremendously impactful on my development as a school leader. Ranging the technical components of principal leadership like building a master schedule, to the more complex challenges like motivating adults and building an instructional vision to support the needs of all students, Johanna challenged, guided, and supported me into becoming an effective leader.

-Tom Milaschewski, former principal, Bates Elementary School, Doctoral Candidate at Harvard Graduate School of Education, EdLD program

Johanna Even has been working alongside me at Ascend for many years. She mentored me and other principals in the early years of Ascend, helping us to find our leader voice in growing schools with high expectations for kids and adults. Because of the trust I developed in her guidance during that period, we have continuously asked her to provide leadership coaching to school leaders and principal managers for the past several years. The school leaders at Ascend who have worked with her deeply appreciate her counsel—so much so that they regularly reach out to her for guidance well beyond their specific engagements. I am glad to count her as both a former mentor and thought partner in the very challenging and exciting work of leadership development.

- Brandon Sorlie, Chief of Schools, Ascend Public Charter Schools

Johanna provided cogent and actionable feedback on our school design plan, helping us shape a new model of success for English language learners.

-Matt Brunell, Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership

COMING SOON!

The First Two Years: Leadership Support and Development for New Principals

The First Two Years – a two-year program designed to support new principals. Based on our experiences of the common challenges of new principals, we are designing a workshop series designed just for first and second year principals. This series is designed to provide new principals with job-embedded support to help navigate the challenges that often arise as new leaders transition into the principalship. The workshops will balance specific content related to the adaptive and interpersonal skills of required of principals with regular opportunities to problem-solve around the real challenges leaders are experiencing. This series will also provide new principals with a cohort of colleagues – a much needed support network for those who are new to the role. The workshop series will consist of four weekend sessions per year with optional on-site and/or remote coaching support provided.

About Our Founder

Johanna Even, EdD

Johanna Even is an educational leader with over 25 years of experience in urban schools. She has worked as a teacher, principal, and principal coach in district and charter schools all over the country. She earned her doctorate from Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she focused her research on the impact of instructional coaching on professional learning communities in schools. She has since experienced firsthand the challenges of leading urban schools, both district and charter, and has expanded her focus from teacher coaching to leader coaching. She believes strongly that targeted coaching support for principals is a key lever in supporting leader job satisfaction, retention, and efficacy.