Sabrina Richards-Battiste, PhD, Founder and Principal
About the Founder
Selected Accomplishments
Selected Accomplishments
- 15+ years of service as an educator and educational leader in public, private, juvenile justice, alternative, residential and nonprofit settings
- Committed to programming and practices aimed at positively impacting historically marginalized groups
- Multi-state experience driving data-informed decisions, managing educators and school leaders,
- 15+ years of service as an educator and educational leader in public, private, juvenile justice, alternative, residential and nonprofit settings
- Committed to programming and practices aimed at positively impacting historically marginalized groups
- Multi-state experience driving data-informed decisions, managing educators and school leaders, communicating with stakeholders and meeting objectives
- Earned Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in Social Foundations of Multicultural Education, (2014)
Selected Accomplishments
Selected Accomplishments
Selected Accomplishments
- Presenter at the Florida League of Middle Schools Conference on Differentiated Instruction (2009)
- Recent educator at Tier 3 Achievement School, one of the highest need schools in the state of Florida; school earned a "C" grade in 2021-2022 school year after 6+ years of consistently "under-performing"
- Spearheaded curriculum development, as
- Presenter at the Florida League of Middle Schools Conference on Differentiated Instruction (2009)
- Recent educator at Tier 3 Achievement School, one of the highest need schools in the state of Florida; school earned a "C" grade in 2021-2022 school year after 6+ years of consistently "under-performing"
- Spearheaded curriculum development, assessment monitoring, and educational reporting across multi-state network; 63% of network schools earned an EQA grade of A or B within 3 years of standards implementation
- Successfully lead AdvancED (now Cognia) Accreditation Review across system of over 30 schools across 9 states (2018)
- Developed competency based Career Readiness and Job Training Curriculum (2018)
- Ron Clarke Academy trained (2020)
- Consultant on The Village: Safe Space Pilot (2020)
- Teacher of the Year Nominee for Sulphur Springs K-8 Community School (2022)
Services
Grant and Proposal Writing
Grant and Proposal Writing
Grant and Proposal Writing
Assists individuals and organizations in meeting programmatic and financial goals by providing customized, effectively written narrative responses to a variety of solicitations.
Writing services include:
- Requests for Proposals
- Intents to Negotiate
- Grant Applications
Program Evaluation
Grant and Proposal Writing
Grant and Proposal Writing
Systematically collects, analyzes, and uses information to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of educational operations, instructional programming, and contract compliance.
Services include:
- Accreditation Review Preparation
- Culturally Responsive School Climate Reviews
- School Improvement Planning
- Quality Assurance Reviews
- Fidelity Monitoring for Compliance
Professional Development
Grant and Proposal Writing
Professional Development
Designs customized professional development opportunities and experiences to meet the unique needs of all stakeholders (students, staff, parents, community members).
PD opportunities include:
- Instructional Coaching
- Workshops
- Informal Observations
Priority Areas
Eliminating School-to-Prison Pipeline
The school-to-prison pipeline is a process through which students are pushed out of schools and into prisons. It is a process of criminalizing youth that is carried out by disciplinary policies and practices within schools that put students into contact with law enforcement.
Whole-Student Education
Students are in need of an educational experience that addresses the need of the whole child. With more and more students experiencing a high number of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) a new approach to education is necessary - one that requires social emotional learning, mental health counseling, and behavior modification.
Embracing and Utilizing Culturally Relevant Practices
Culturally relevant practices are methods, procedures, process or rules used by educators that value “the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, and performance styles of ethnically diverse students to make learning encounters more relevant and effective for them” (Gay, 2013)
Acknowledging and Addressing "Education Debt"
According to Ladson-Billings, “education debt” is the combination of historical, moral, socio-political, and economic factors that has disproportionately affected African American, Latino, Asian, and other non-White students (Ladson- Billings, 2006). The disparity in academic performance between middle-class whites and other groups is correlated with education debt. Educational policies must be considered and applied in a manner that is appropriate to the debt that is owed.
Hearing the Voices of Current Educators
According to research by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the teacher shortage could reach 200,000 by 2025, up from 110,000 in 2018. This shortage of workers is due to a number of factors. Among them are pay, working conditions, lack of support, lack of autonomy, and ever-changing curriculum and students at high poverty schools are impacted the most. The COVID-19 pandemic and current political discourse has exasperated long-standing issues.