Our Partners

We are proud to have partnered with organizations across the education sector to build effective strategies and strong cultures where talented individuals thrive in service of great outcomes for their students.

Here’s what some of our partners have said about working with us.

 

“Loom helped us to articulate our beliefs about family engagement and student persistence and turn them into an actionable strategy to meet enrollment targets. The plan we co-created has given us clarity, direction, and a common purpose.”

— Alejandro Delgado, Executive Director of Student Enrollment & Attendance, Austin Independent School District

  • AISD’s Student Enrollment & Attendance Department engaged Loom to develop a coherent, multi-year strategy that sought to stem the declining enrollment that the district was experiencing in the wake of the pandemic. The team has a belief that meeting enrollment targets begins with understanding family experiences and authentically partnering with school leadership; this formed the basis of their vision and theory of action. From there, Loom supported the team to develop measurable and moveable goals as well as implementation plans and performance management routines for key initiatives. In addition, we supported the department leader to develop talent strategies, including team structures and culture-building, to ensure their team is set up for success to execute on the strategic plan. Our support of the team contributed to the fact that, at the end of the year, the AISD was just one of two large Texas districts that stabilized its enrollment for SY 22-23.

 
 

“Loom Consulting has been an impactful part of the transformational work we’re engaging in at my state agency. In addition to providing resources and research to support our initiatives, Jessica has served as a strategic thought partner that has really pushed my thinking as a leader. Furthermore, Loom has been able to identify the current state of the agency and then support us in visualizing our future state. This practice has helped to focus us, so we could identify measurable goals and determine the steps needed to accomplish them. Loom has been an integral part of scoping out our transformation and solidifying a path to implementation.”

— Dawn Love, Executive Director of Organizational Development, Louisiana Department of Education

  • Loom provided coaching to the Executive Director of Organizational Development to support her in developing a strategic plan for her team and a talent strategy for the agency. Leaning on our experience leading organizational design and talent strategy for a large state education agency, Loom worked closely with the Executive Director to provide pragmatic, actionable guidance to clarify strategic priorities, increase the team’s capacity, and to build a culture of continuous improvement and growth mindset. In addition, Loom supported the Executive Director to design and plan a new performance management system for the LDOE leadership and staff and a plan for implementation over the course of the 2022-23 school year. By the end of our engagement, the Organizational Development Department had a strategic plan that included a vision, theory of action, strategic priorities, formative and summative metrics, and had built capacity within the team for planning and managing projects aligned to goals.

 
 

“I believe that the success of [the strategic planning] process is due in part to the fact that Loom took the time to understand our unique context, which helped us to craft a plan that was clear, pragmatic, and actionable.”

— Ryan Franklin, Senior Director of Policy & Advocacy, Educate Texas

  • The Senior Director of Educate Texas’ newly-formed Policy & Advocacy team brought Loom on to lead the development of a strategic plan for his team, as well as a set of implementation tools and resources and recommendations for team structure to execute on the plan effectively. Loom facilitated a process that started with clarifying the Policy & Advocacy team’s brand in the Texas education landscape and identifying opportunities that are aligned to that brand and grounded in the organization’s strengths. Loom led the team to codify a vision, theory of action, strategic priorities, desired outcomes, formative metrics, and a two-year implementation plan. To ensure a successful launch to implementation, Loom also developed and trained the team on routines and tools for progress monitoring, which aligned the team, as well as external stakeholders, on the Policy & Advocacy team’s work and goals across the upcoming legislative cycle.