Education Strategy Partners.
Learning, Baltimore City Public Schools. 2024,
We serve as expert partners to help schools and districts address discipline, chronic absenteeism, and culture & climate issues. Here is a snapshot of our discipline work.
We build strategies to address the needs of PK-12 systems and mission-driven non-profits.
We translate strategy into action.
Our goal is to create organizational and community based impact as a result of our collaborative action.
Pictured: School and District Administrator Keynote, Lowell Public Schools.
Our team conducts school and district accreditation readiness reviews, organizational effectiveness audits, and continuous improvement assessments designed to strengthen performance and accountability. We also specialize in discipline, attendance, climate, and culture audits that leverage data, stakeholder feedback, and best practices to identify challenges and develop targeted improvement strategies.
Education Strategy Partners works alongside organizations to implement improvement strategies, with integrity and measurable impact. We provide hands-on support, coaching, progress monitoring, and capacity-building to ensure that newly implemented strategies become sustainable systems that drive long-term success.
Our professional learning experiences focus on the practical leadership, operational, and organizational skills that are often overlooked in traditional schools of education programs. We also provide specialized training for school-based roles that are typically ignored for capacity building.
Chicago Public Schools
Baltimore City Public Schools
St. Martin Parish School District
St. James Parish School District
St. Johns Parish School District
Malden High School
Lowell High School
New Rochelle High School
The SEED School of Maryland
Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women
Baltimore County Public Schools
Pictured: Panel Discussion with Climate Staff Baltimore City Public Schools 2025
We partnered with multiple districts to analyze their discipline and attendance data, craft strategies to improve outcomes, and monitored implementation for at least a school year.
Conducted an audit and implemented strategies to reduce student discipline issues and improve the climate of a 3,300 student high school.
Led a city wide TaskForce to develop and implement strategies for increasing student safety in a 3200 student high school and throughout the community.
Provided district wide professional learning to administrators, behavioral interventionist, teachers, paraprofessionals, hall monitors, and other staff that directly interact with students.
Pictured: Climate Staff Professional Learning, The SEED School of Maryland 2023
We measure success by your organization's ability to thrive independently, long after our work together is done.
Let us help you clarify your roadmap-old strategies don't always work.
Waiting to develop the perfect solution prevents organizations from acting on good ideas.
We build the capacity of staff, especially those often ignored such as hall monitors-security and attendance staff-paraprofessionals, to create supportive climate and cultures.
Pictured: Professional Learning for school and district administrators and Behavioral/climate staff in St. Martin Parish School District. 2024
Eric Carlton brings more than 30 years of educational leadership experience spanning school administration, business operations, school improvement, and special education, including service as a teacher, principal, regional vice president, and founder of Banner Learning Corporation, which operates alternative and therapeutic education programs in multiple states. He holds advanced degrees from UMBC, Johns Hopkins University, and Walden University, is certified in administration and instructional leadership, and has received multiple state and national leadership awards. For more than a decade, Eric has led school and district accreditation and engagement reviews and now serves as co-founder of Education Strategy Partners, formerly School Equity Solutions, where he coaches people and organizations to build human capacity, strengthen systems, and leading with innovation.
Dr. Jonathan Brice is a nationally recognized educational leader with more than 30 years of experience as a teacher, administrator, superintendent, and U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education, specializing in student services, school discipline, social-emotional learning, and organizational leadership. He has led initiatives in school systems ranging from 3,000 to 165,000 students, guided districts through major improvement efforts, including the COVID-19 pandemic, and helped shape federal policies impacting more than 50 million public school students nationwide. Dr. Brice is a Harvard University-trained educator, leadership coach, and co-founder of Education Strategy Partners, formerly School Equity Solutions, where he coaches people and organizations to build human capacity, strengthen systems, and leading with innovation.
Partnering together, we build the foundation for strengthening your organization.
Pictured: Taskforce in New Rochelle New York
Pictured: Behavior/Climate Support Staff Professional