Effective Practices Guides

  • Principles, practices, and resources to support the development of accessible tuition in your school or institution.

  • Theater productions are incredible opportunities to introduce students to the beautiful and complex nature of our world. Theater is a portal to other times, places, and cultures. Because theater is so vivid and emotional, there are also many places within it where our own biases can lurk. This document provides and offers ideas and examples for a consciously produced show. May all your productions open your students’ eyes and swing open the doors of wonder and empathy.

  • Out of decades of experience leading and supporting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) Committees (who use many variants of the acronym, including EID, EDI, JEDI, and more), we know that strong leadership and clear structure are essential to a committee’s sustainability and working relationships. How can a DEIJ Committee - often made up of volunteers - synthesize a range of opinions, function transparently and effectively, and impact their community for the good of all?

  • Communities thrive when leadership, employees, students, and families come from a variety of backgrounds and identities. How can independent schools and other organizations recruit and retain a wider range of candidates?

Gleaning from our experience working with small schools and organizations for more than five years as a group and decades as individuals, we have created a series of documents on Effective Practices that we are excited to offer to our clients.

Each document is focused on a key theme or area that clients often have questions about or need support to improve. Our intention with the Effective Practice Guides is to offer maps for our clients and share resources that can serve a wide range of small schools and types of organizations. We intend for these resources to support unique inquiries and journeys while addressing common themes, as communities become more inclusive, equitable, diverse, and just.

Each full document (available only to current clients) includes effective practices, suggested questions and/or steps to take, and a list of resources. If you’re a current client and don’t have access to these documents, please write to us at connect@almapartners.net for a copy. We also offer 1-hour consulting sessions to go deeper on the content of the Effective Practices Guides. Book here.

If you’re not a client yet, book an introductory call with us to learn more!

Our list of current and forthcoming documents will be updated regularly on this page.