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Presence before prescription.

Every recommendation The Jackie Project makes is earned through being present first. We observe culture before we design for it. We learn your school before we say a single word about what it needs.


This isn't a workshop. It isn't a checklist.

It's a whole-school engagement built on what's actually true — about your students, your staff, and the dynamics between them. The Jackie Project doesn't arrive with a pre-built curriculum. We arrive with presence, curiosity, and a commitment to building something that actually fits your school.

Schools that have tried DEI trainings, culture audits, or one-day professional development and found them hollow — this practice was built for you. Not because those things are wrong, but because they're usually prescribed before anyone has sat still long enough to learn what the school actually needs.

The model is simple. Three phases. Every one earned.

01

Observation Week

On-site, daily presence. Ashle is in the building, in the classrooms, in the hallways — watching, listening, and learning before anything else. Anonymous surveys from students and staff run alongside the observation. Nothing goes in a file with anyone's name on it.

Typically 5 days on-site · Anonymous surveys · No evaluation component
02

Planning & Framework

Based on findings, we co-create a customized culture framework, curriculum, and staff development plan. Built for your school, not borrowed from another one. Every recommendation is grounded in what we actually observed.

Co-created with school leadership · Customized to your community · Specific and actionable
03

Implementation

Facilitation, training, and ongoing consultation to bring the framework to life across your school community. Staff development, student sessions, family engagement — woven together. Not at you. Not about you. With you.

Ongoing support · Staff + student + family sessions · Progress check-ins
Three Foundational Pillars

The framework everything is built on.

01

Educator Truth Rooms

Educators need space to name what they actually feel — discomfort, bias, confusion, fear — without judgment and without consequence. You cannot teach what you won't confront. You cannot build culture you're not willing to examine yourself.

This pillar creates the conditions for real educator growth. Not professional development that checks a box, but a space where the hard, honest conversation about what it means to teach in this school, with these students, in this moment can actually happen.

"Please set down whatever DEI framework you've been handed before. I am not here to audit your language or measure you against a standard that was probably never built with your reality in mind."
02

Culture Is Everyone's Conversation

Culture can't be siloed to one group, one month, one program, or one administrator. Real culture shift — the kind that persists after the consultant leaves — happens when students, staff, administration, and families are all in the room at the same time.

This pillar ensures no one is left out. Not the students who are hardest to reach. Not the staff who are most resistant. Not the families who feel furthest from the school. Everyone has a seat and a voice, or the work doesn't hold.

"The hawk doesn't get to decide how the colony is ran. Culture is determined the minute you step in the building — what is your welcome mat saying?"
03

Individuality IS the System

Schools are built on conformity — same pace, same style, same expectations, same expression. The Jackie Project flips that model entirely. Individual identity, learning style, and expression aren't accommodations. They aren't exceptions. They are the actual structure.

This pillar asks schools to stop trying to fit students into systems and start building systems that fit students. That shift — in mindset, in practice, and in policy — is where real belonging gets built.

"We are going to work through all of it together. Not at you. Not about you. With you."
What This Is and Isn't

So we're clear from the start.

This is not
  • A one-day professional development
  • A DEI audit or compliance review
  • A pre-built curriculum dropped in your building
  • An evaluation of individual staff performance
  • A program that ends when the consultant leaves
  • A checklist that was built for a different school
This is
  • A whole-school engagement built on presence
  • Honest, non-judgmental observation first
  • A customized framework for your actual school
  • A space where educators can say what's true
  • Work that involves students, staff, and families
  • A practice that stays with the school long-term

Engagements are tiered and custom.

Pricing proposals are delivered following the observation phase — because we build what fits, not what's generic. Scope, school size, and implementation depth all shape what this looks like for your community.

If you're ready to talk about what this could look like for your school, start with the contact form. We'll take it from there.

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