Education Consulting
Great ideas deserve great design.
All people can thrive when learning systems are well designed and implemented effectively.
Sara Rich is a career educator with a proven track record. Plus, she’s genuinely fun to work with.
She works with organizations ready to design, strengthen, or scale an educational program for a monthly fee.
Expertise
Curriculum and Instruction
When student learning depends on the quality of your curriculum and teaching, you need evidence-based materials and effective instructional systems. Sara helps education organizations to design or refine their programming to ensure it translates into measurable learning outcomes.
New School Launch
When turning an ambitious vision into a school ready to open its doors, you need a coherent academic model, a strategic launch plan and a path to approval. Sara helps school founders turn their vision into an actionable plan for a successful launch.
High Stakes Writing
When a document carries significant weight for funding, launch, or strategic direction, it needs to be clear, compelling, and grounded in your program’s reality. Sara helps organizations turn complex ideas and research into persuasive writing that advances their goals.
Testimonials
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"Sara is methodical, reliable and a pleasure to work with. She developed the Archive in Action Initiative, start to finish. She collaborated seamlessly with historians, archivists, teachers and community groups to design and launch this innovative initiative."
Margaret Burnham
Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project
Northeastern University Law School -
“Sara’s no-nonsense approach is clear, practical, and easy to implement. Anyone who has worked with Sara knows she’s in a league of her own, and any leader looking for a serious ROI should be knocking on her door."
Sean O’Malley
NewGlobe Education -
"Sara’s ability to distill complex content while maintaining its emotional weight and educational integrity was remarkable. Sara builds bridges between communities and classrooms, ensuring important stories reach the next generation with both academic rigor and profound respect."
Shannon Hardy
Wake County Community Remembrance Project -
"Sara is an instructional design legend! Her commitment to real learning is rooted in careful, evidence-based thinking about what actually helps teachers improve and children learn. No fluff, no polish for its own sake."
Ibironke Olurotimi
NewGlobe Education
Eduspur -
"Sara redesigned our training program, enabling us to train 62 staff and sports coaches to achieve certification, making an immediate and lasting impact on youth and communities."
Jessica Thompson
Kids Play International -
"From distilling foundational teaching skills to developing high-leverage management tools for accountability, Sara’s collaborative and thorough approach results in long lasting impact."
Irma Muñoz
NewGlobe Education
IDEA Public Schools
