Our Impact

Immediate Impact with Sustainable Results

Maximizing Student Learning & Growth

Our Commitment to Impact

Our team operates with a disciplined focus on achieving impact in schools. Our deep commitment to immediate impact guides all that we do, while building the systems, strategy, and skills needed to sustain success over time. Our unique approach is grounded in evidence-based practices, driven by district collaboration, and focused relentlessly on the student outcomes that matter most.

Partner Satisfaction

Delivering Exceptional Service

In our partnership with districts and schools, we go above and beyond in providing customized solutions that help achieve an immediate impact and sustained results for leaders, teachers, and students.

As a result of our deep commitment to district and school partners, our partners rate their likelihood of recommending SustainED Leaders at 9.8 out of 10. This exceptional rating reflects the high level of satisfaction and trust our partners have in our work, and their willingness to recommend SustainED Leaders to peers.

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Transforming Outcomes

Accelerating Student Achievement

In our work with districts and schools, we partner with leaders and teachers to implement strategies that accelerate learning for all students. By designing and delivering customized solutions grounded in research and evidence-based practices, our district and school partners are able to achieve immediate impact on student learning and build the systems needed to sustain that growth over time.

Our team is committed to maximizing impact in every partner district and school, and since the organization’s inception, our partners have consistently outperformed the state in academic growth.

Increase in School Accountability Ratings

Our work in Texas districts and schools leads to accelerated student achievement, which results in increased school and district accountability ratings per TEA. By helping districts and schools customize the implementation of HQIM, strengthen instructional systems at the district and school level, and build leader and teacher capacity, districts see measurable, sustained gains in student outcomes and improved accountability ratings.

Source: TexasSchools.gov – TEA School Accountability Ratings

Source: TexasSchools.gov – TEA School Accountability Ratings

Accelerating Student Achievement

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of partner campuses increased their 2024-2025 TEA accountability rating.

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19-point average gain in accountability ratings across all 2024-2025 partner campuses

Building Leader & Teacher Capacity

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educators developed

We recognize that in order to create sustainable change in education, it is essential to invest in every leader and teacher by building the knowledge, skills, and systems needed to improve instruction at scale. SustainED Leaders has developed over 6,000 educators through job-embedded coaching and professional learning that builds lasting instructional capacity, year after year.

Leader Competency Growth

SustainED Leaders uses a competency-based coaching model to strengthen leaders’ ability to drive continuous instructional improvement on their campuses and district.

Leaders showed significant growth in observing instruction (+40.6%), managing lesson internalization (+34.1%), giving feedback (+34.3%), and leading data analysis (+44.7%).

Gains in the highest-leverage instructional practices ensure rapid improvement and long-term sustainability by strengthening leaders’ ability to consistently support high-quality teaching campus-wide.

Teacher Competency Growth

SustainED Leaders uses a competency-based coaching model to develop teachers who deliver high-quality, standards-aligned instruction that accelerates learning for all students.

Teachers demonstrated strong growth in engaging students (+45.5%), curriculum implementation (+36.4%), feedback for learning (+48.7%), and student work analysis (+55.1%).

Stronger proficiency in these instructional practices elevate the student learning experience every day, throughout a teacher’s career.

Increasing Retention of Educators

Training, supporting, and retaining effective school leaders is essential to sustaining strong schools. As the principal role grows in complexity and demands increase, particularly with more leaders entering the role as novices, job-embedded coaching and development are critical to ensuring principals can have high impact, even in their first year. SustainED’s high-touch, personalized leader coaching helps meet leaders exactly where they are, in their context, accelerating growth by building upon their strengths and developing the highest-leverage instructional leadership competencies.

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of principals coached by SustainED Leaders are still leading in education

100% of principals coached by SustainED Leaders are still leading in education, with 94% continuing to serve in school leadership roles. We help principals stay in the work by building the instructional, strategic, and organizational leadership skills that make the role clear, achievable, and effective. By working side-by-side with leaders weekly in their campus context, we help principals gain the skills and confidence to thrive in the role, both today and long-term.

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Leaders continue to serve in school leadership roles

Research suggests that leader retention leads to sustainability of systems and processes, which in turn positively impacts teacher retention and student outcomes.

Delivering Exceptional Service & Support

Partner feedback is central to how we measure and continuously improve the quality of our work. Over the past five years, leaders and teachers have consistently reported meaningful growth as a result of their partnership with SustainED Leaders, particularly in instructional leadership, teacher development, and the systems that support continuous improvement.

Partners highlight gains in the highest-leverage instructional practices, including coaching teachers, analyzing data and student work, leading effective PLCs, and driving campus-wide improvement, and leaders overwhelmingly express confidence in recommending SustainED Leaders to their peers.

Case Studies

Through deep partnerships with schools and districts, we support leaders and educators in driving meaningful, sustainable improvement. Our case studies highlight how tailored strategic planning, personalized coaching, and a customized approach to curriculum implementation translate into measurable gains in student achievement, stronger instructional practices, and improved school accountability outcomes.

Explore how SustainED Leaders partners with campuses across Texas to build capacity, strengthen leadership, and deliver enduring results:

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Impact Reports

As an impact-driven nonprofit organization, we track our impact in multiple ways to measure our team’s effectiveness. Achieving impact is only made possible through deep partnerships with schools, districts, universities, and philanthropic partners. We are deeply grateful for their collaboration and commitment.

Since inception, our organization has partnered with districts to impact more than 3,000 leaders, 6,000 teachers, and 350,000+ students. Explore SustainED Leaders’ impact reports to learn about the extraordinary work happening in our partner districts in advancing educational excellence: