About Solution Tree

About Solution Tree
For over 25 years, Solution Tree has provided a combination of premium professional development
options that include books and videos, onsite and virtual options, unique technology, and events hosted
across North America and international locations.

Our experience includes positive transformation at the school, district, regional, and state levels. We are
one of the largest providers of onsite staff development, and we lead the industry in the number and
scope of successful professional learning events provided to educators. Solution Tree’s professional
development services are designed to build leadership capacity and create sustainability.

By blending administrative coaching, teacher-leader training, onsite workshops, and instructional
modeling and observation, we embed best practice into the daily course of educating students. Our
school improvement services bring the best of both structure and research-based strategy to help you
move student learning and achievement forward.

Solution Tree has experience implementing best practices in a wide variety of settings. Our systematic
approach includes numerous benefits:

    •   coherence and clarity in the district mission, vision, values, and goals across all buildings
    •   a guaranteed and implemented curriculum throughout the district
    •   short- and long-term action plans driven by reciprocal accountability
    •   a collaborative culture that takes collective responsibility for achieving mutual goals
    •   teachers, building administrators, and district staff maintain a continuous improvement
        orientation.




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The Solution Tree Approach
In this undertaking, we will implement the Three Big Ideas of a Professional Learning Community (PLC)
at Work® with fidelity.

    •   A focus on learning
    •   A collaborative culture
    •   A focus on results
Teams who are organized as PLCs work collaboratively to answer, “Four Critical Questions”, and a PLC at
Work consistently exhibits the Six Essential School Cultural Characteristics.




Our approach to training builds the capacity of leadership staff while also providing targeted coaching to
educators on the front line – individual teachers.

Establishing and sustaining an effective collaborative culture requires overcoming common obstacles,
such as staff turnover, adopting best practices, and focused collaboration on “the things that matter” in
improving student achievement. The challenge is reaching the greatest audience of educators within the
limitations of available resources. Solution Tree supports educators in these efforts through events,
innovative publishing of renowned thought leaders, and inspired professional development.

Educators in a district who function as a PLC at Work benefit from clarity regarding their shared purpose,
a common understanding of the school district they are trying to create, collective communities to help
move all schools in the desired direction, and specific, measurable, attainable, results-oriented, and
time-bound (SMART) goals to mark their progress.