Who is K-12 PATTERNS™ ?

K-12 PATTERNS™ learning research partners serve as an approved model provider for the Comprehensive School Reform program (CSR); High Priority Schools Grant (HPSG); and the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Reconstitution Model. We also serve as a California Department of Education External Evaluator for federal and state-mandated improvement programs.
Schools targeted for improvement must recognize that true reform requires an on-going partnership between a model and the school. The model is NOT the reform, thus stakeholders at the school site MUST be involved in crafting the reform. Anything short of such a partnership will result in short-term gains at best.

(Alarming quote) The U.S. Department of Educations’ Averch Report of school reform stated, “[Analysis of previous reform efforts shows] …nothing that consistently and unambiguously makes a difference in student outcomes.”

The report made clear that, “ …substantial improvement in educational outcomes can be obtained only through a vastly different form of education.”

K-12 PATTERNS™ is committed to creating partnerships that seek “vastly different” solutions for each individual site. One size fits no one – each school must be able to identify their respective performance gaps and design interventions that foster greater achievement.

A dependable model provider changes the archetype beliefs of education and leaves a legacy of such change long after the partnership has ended.