Consulting

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The Cloud Institute consults with our clients over time in a variety of different areas. Examples include:

  • Develop an awareness and shared understanding of sustainability and education for sustainability (EFS) among the faculty and administrators

  • Strengths Analysis of Formal and Operating Curriculum to look for evidence of Education for Sustainability core content standards and performance indicators and instructional practices

  • Increasing and improving EfS curriculum units and curriculum mapping

  • Student Work Analysis Reports from existing curriculum

  • Curriculum revision, adaptation and design in keeping with Education for Sustainability core content standards and performance indicators

Consulting Services

Curriculum: 

  • Embedding EfS Content Standards and Performance Indicators into Curriculum and Instruction

  • Curriculum Design, Assessment & Mapping

  • Coaching  

  • Assessing and Improving EfS Content and Instructional Practices in Units and Courses

  • Assessing, Analyzing and Improving Student Work

Organizational Learning and Change:

  • Planning, Implementing and Assessing for Continuous Improvement

  • Strategic Planning, Implementation and Assessment with Leadership Team

  • Coaching
  • Faculty Planning, Innovation, Peer reviews and Collegial Collaboration

  • Linking Performance Assessments to Curriculum Documentation and Mapping

  • Assessing and Improving Organizational Practices
  • Research and Development

 

Strategic Partnerships

Our whole systems approach combines curriculum and instruction, physical plant, the development of your institution as a learning organization, procurement, investments (where appropriate), and relationship with the surrounding community. The Cloud Institute works primarily with curriculum and instruction. We have strategic partnerships with professionals who specialize in the various other parts of the system.

To begin the process of educating for a sustainable future schools/school systems have to start somewhere. Entry points vary for everyone, ranging from addressing the physical plant and operations to curriculum, green buildings, instruction, assessment, learning, and change.

Teaching and Learning
All our curriculum materials and our professional development protocols are informed by, and in many cases co-written by the master teachers, professional developers, and curriculum and assessment professionals of Learner Centered Initiatives, Ltd.(LCI) and Communties for Learning. These organizations are dedicated to the design of rich, student centered instruction K-12 that is assessment driven, standards based, differentiated for multiple intelligences, and multi and inter-disciplinary.

Learner Centered Initiatives
Communities for Learning

Physical Plant and Operations
We encourage our clients to take a whole systems approach to education for sustainability whenever possible. We work with the professionals who research the sites, develop the plans, design the buildings and the landscapes, construct the wetlands, and work with the operations personnel to maintain the places over time.

Regenesis
Integrative Design Collaborative
Hone and Associates
New Civic Works

Schools and Communities that Learn
We know that in order to move toward a sustainable future, we will need to have schools that learn in communities that learn for sustainability. Schools and their communities must work together and change over time. They need to become systems thinkers and view our world as one system versus isolated parts. This will require education and re-education of all parties, from the kindergarteners to the elders. It is for this reason we are part of the Society for Organizational Learning Education Partnership (SoL Ed). SoL Ed is a multi-year effort to form strong collaborative relationships within, between, and among schools and communities in order to create systemic change for a sustainable future.

Society for Organizational Learning Education Partnership (SoL)
Linda Booth Sweeney
Creative Learning Exchange