Empowering Education Leaders
Building learner-centered schools is hard. You don't have to do it alone. We work alongside school founders and education leaders to turn bold, learner-centered visions into sustainable, well-supported organizations without losing what makes them human.
Built by school founders. Designed for real-world constraints.
Most education systems and support services are built for scale, not for people actually building schools.
We work with learner-centered school founders and leaders, whether you're early-stage and overwhelmed or established and constrained, to strengthen the systems that hold your work. Operations, curriculum, assessment, enrollment, technology, storytelling, so your energy can go back where it belongs: learners and learning.
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Strategic Consulting
We partner with school leaders to clarify direction, strengthen decision-making, and align systems with values across culture, curriculum, assessment, operations, enrollment,, and growth.
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Technology Tools (Coming Soon)
Founder-friendly tools designed to bring operational relief and systems coherence to learner-centered schools. Built from lived experience, not enterprise assumptions.
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Implementation Support
We don't just advise and leave you to it; we help implement. From systems setup to process design, we work alongside your team to make change stick.
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Concierge-level Support
One-on-one, highly personalized, real-time coaching from people who've been there. For all those moments when you wish you had a team to call who could give you the cheat code.
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Studio Design
We'll partner with you to actively test and refine ideas with feedback, thought partnership, and co-design tools and solutions.
Experience that's
lived
Who We Are
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School Founders
We've been where you are and exist to offer the support we wish we had.
Schools we've worked alongside
as founders, operators, advisors, and partners through school creation, growth, reinvention, and sustainability work. We know the weight founders and school leaders carry because we've carried it ourselves.
1,000+
50+
Years of collective experience
building, leading, and supporting learner-centered schools and education initiatives.
100%
Real Partnership.
We know how hard it can be to work with consultants with brilliant ideas...but leave your already overworked team to do the work. We are here to be 100% committed to increasing capacity where and when you need it.
about us
Two Entities. One shared purpose.
CultivatED Education Partners exists alongside CultivatED Colorado, our nonprofit organization dedicated to ecosystem-building, convenings, and field-level learning across Colorado.
This separation allows each organization to do its best work:
CulitivatED Colorado focuses on connection, research, and community-wide learning.
CultivatED Education Partners delivers consulting, implementation, and tools that help learner-centered schools build sustainable operations.
Learn more about CultivatED Colorado
Discover the Back Office App
Your All-in-One Business Operations Companion
A calmer way to run a school is coming
Small, learner-centered schools are often held together by spreadsheets, folders, and sheer willpower.
We're building a standalone operational hub designed specifically for school founders and small teams, bringing clarity, coherence, and relief to the back office work that drains energy from the work that matters most.
We're currently inviting a small group of schools to learn more and be considered for an early pilot.
What Our Clients Say
"I just want to say thank you again for the work you’re doing with so many schools/leaders across the region. It’s always energizing to be on the other side of your leadership, facilitation, and presence."
"We’re just really grateful for the continued support, conversations, intersections, and partnership around schools, charter schools, innovation, and Gran Via."
-Gran Via
"We were finally able to secure our first grant! Shaina, thank you so much for taking the time to review our application and offer thoughtful feedback. We don’t take that lightly, and we genuinely believe that support helped us secure that critical early $10K."
Collaborating with Leading Organizations
CultivatED
Education
Partners
Whether you're building something new or trying to stabilize what you've already built, we're here to support you.
If you're looking for a thought partner who understands both vision and viability, we'd love to connect.
Contact Us to Get Started
Colorado