From Concept to Classroom
The Watershed Team gets to work on Day 1 to understand your unique context and needs
From defining your education vision to implementing a new policy, we meet you where you are and get you across the finish line.
That’s the Watershed Way.
Vision
Delivering results for students and families is core to who we are, so we begin every engagement by setting a vision for what will be true for students and teachers when our work is done.
Policy
We’ll draw on national best practices to help your team design research-backed, actionable policies and craft the legislation and regulations to make them stick.
Plan
Details can make or break a great idea. That’s why we roll up our sleeves and dive deep in the weeds with you — engaging stakeholders, establishing goals and milestones, building a timeline, and preparing to launch.
Implement
We work flexibly to help you get funding, establish partnerships, ensure school teams get adequate training, develop measurements of success, and more — everything you need to deliver better outcomes for kids in your state.
Measure + Improve
Policies are only real when the experiences of students and teachers change. We set up systems to help you track those changes, to the classroom level, over time and make adjustments to turn good practices into even better ones at scale.
Areas of Expertise
We work at every level of the education system:
Early Childhood Quality + Access
K-12 Instructional Quality
Pathways to Career
And on everything it takes to make the system work:
Accountability + Measurement
Funding + Finance
Product + Service Vendor Evaluation
BRINGING GOOD IDEAS TO LIFE
Good ideas almost never scale within the massive and fragmented American child care, education, and workforce systems. In order to find their way to the communities and families who need them, good ideas need an advocate within the system, someone who knows the system and understands how it can work to bring good ideas to life.