Access the Capacity You Need to Advance Student Outcomes

Supporting State and Local Education Agencies

Catalyst:Ed can help you access the expertise, insights, and additional capacity you need to further your priorities and transform your practices so you can address immediate learner needs, adapt to a rapidly evolving landscape, and invest in longer-term transformation. We do this by connecting you to vetted experts and technical assistance providers for individualized support and guidance and by fostering peer-learning opportunities.

One Network, Many Ways to Engage

With a highly diverse network of over 800 expert consultants, coaches, and technical assistance providers and deep knowledge of capacity-building and organizational learning, we help leaders and teams access and leverage the right expertise for a range of needs more reliably, equitably, and easily.

  • Get Help for a Project

    Get our help scoping a single project and getting matched with a vetted provider.

    Learn More About Our Matching Process

  • Join the SEA Exchange

    Catalyst:Ed works with SEAs to help them access the expertise, insights, and additional capacity they need to further their priorities and transform their practices. Services and solutions offered by the SEA Exchange include the following:

    • Individualized capacity-building supports: Our signature matching process, trusted by over 1,000 state and local education agencies and nonprofits, delivers intentional, high-quality and seamless support that is responsive to the needs and contexts of each agency.
    • Philanthropically-funded consulting wallets: Each state has access to a pre-funded wallet that can be used to make rapid progress on critical priorities identified by the state. 
    • Targeted connections with role-alike peers: Cohort meetings provide state leaders and teams to discuss common challenges and share insights. States can also request 1:1 connections with peers working on similar issues.
    • Advisory Support: Each state has an assigned Relationship Manager, who is responsible for understanding the state’s needs and priorities, connecting state officials to Exchange services and solutions, and ensuring projects are successful. 

    SEA Exchange’s second cohort will start in Fall 2023 and run through to Summer 2024. Interested in learning more? Email us at [email protected]

    Learn More About the SEA Exchange

  • Join the LEA Exchange

    Catalyst:Ed works with school districts and CMOs to help them access the expertise, insights, and additional capacity they need to further their priorities and transform their practices. Services and solutions offered by the LEA Exchange include the following:

    • Individualized capacity-building supports: Our signature matching process, trusted by over 1,000 state and local education agencies and nonprofits, delivers intentional, high-quality and seamless support that is responsive to the needs and contexts of each agency.
    • Targeted connections with role-alike peers: Cohort meetings provide state leaders and teams to discuss common challenges and share insights. States can also request 1:1 connections with peers working on similar issues.
    • Advisory Support: Each LEA has an assigned Relationship Manager, who is responsible for understanding the state’s needs and priorities and ensuring projects are successful. 

    Interested in learning more? Email us at [email protected]

The Catalyst:Ed Difference

  • Broad provider network: Our diverse network of 830+ vetted providers includes nationally known organizations and research entities, as well as leaders and subject matter experts with deep knowledge of issues and communities and experiences with government agencies and nonprofit organizations.
  • Trusted advisors: Our team has decades of experience working with and supporting education agencies, nonprofits, and philanthropies, and brings deep expertise in capacity-building and continuous learning.
  • Equity focus: We have a diverse team and an equity-oriented approach to capacity-building that is reflected across all our work.
  • Structured and streamlined process: Our signature matching process and platform make it easy for our partners to identify and connect with the right expertise and perspectives for their needs and contexts.

  • Our provider was an EXCELLENT listener right from the beginning. She brought a lot of knowledge to the project, but she was also very willing to listen and respond to our needs so that the product was tailored to fit the needs of our district. The process never felt like it was a canned approach. We felt as though the team was truly collaborative in their approach, and could sense that right at our first meeting.

    Malden Public Schools

  • Our providers were professional, informative, and delivered an amazing work product that matched all of our ideal outcomes. Their background in charter school administration and fundraising was particularly useful, and this was one of the smoothest processes we’ve ever had with a consultant!

    City on a Hill Charter School

  • Our providers were really strong in terms of academic content and excellent at supporting a team in building a vision for the work and then delivering content aligned to that vision.

    Providence Public Schools

  • The Catalyst:Ed team took time to listen to our priorities and needs without trying to push any particular project or body of work on us. Out of that process, we were able to come up with the right projects that truly addressed our needs.

    SEA Exchange participant

  • We appreciated our provider’s flexibility throughout this project. In this project, we aimed to do collaborative work with our community partners, which required a more extended timeline than we anticipated. Our provider was attentive to the needs of our group as well as our district during this pandemic year and was able to deliver results that met our needs.

    Lowell Public Schools

  • Our consultant partner was very responsive to the emerging needs of our work, even as we were developing new policy guidance in parallel with this project timeline.

    SEA Exchange participant