Educational Consulting
GROW YOUR LEADERSHIP
Every school needs great leadership, and every leader deserves extraordinary support.
Welcome to LIFTeducation! We provide world-class consulting, content, and coaching to school leaders.
Your time is precious. And what we have to offer is clear, concise, practical, and tailored to benefit leaders at any stage in their professional growth.
If you think the work of schools is too important and too complex to go it alone, then you’re in the right place.
Our Services
What We Offer
Consulting
Whether you’re looking to start strong in a new role or take your school and team to the next level, we offer the training and insight to help you meet your goals.
We offer personalized tools and thought-provoking articles to support you with developing your practice and establishing powerful new habits.
One-to-one leadership coaching that is responsive, insightful, and impactful. Our goal is to build your capacity until you no longer need our support.
Our People
WhO We Are
Stephen Ly
LIFTeducation Founder & School Leader
Stephen has worked in a variety of educational contexts both in the United States and abroad. He has almost 20 years of experience as an educator and believes deeply in the power of mentoring.
After earning degrees in engineering and education at Harvard University, he began his career as a high school mathematics and writing teacher in the Boston Public Schools. That classroom experience was the foundation for his subsequent work in Boston as a trainer of teacher leaders, team facilitator, and district academic director.
He previously served as high school principal at one of the largest and most reputable international schools in the world, Singapore American School. Stephen now works as middle school principal at Concordia International School Hanoi.
His areas of interest and expertise are culture building, team facilitation, systems thinking, the design of professional learning experiences, and crisis leadership.
Our Impact
Testimonials
Our Strategic Anchors
What We Stand For
“If You Want to Go Far, Go Together”
Our Mission
We train, mentor, connect, and curate essential resources for school leaders.
Our Vision
Our Values
INTEGRITY
We are principled.
INTENSITY
We work with urgency.
INTENTION
We act deliberately.
Our Approach
What We Prioritize
Many skills are required of highly effective school leaders. But special attention needs to be given to mastering four skills that we call “Core Competencies.” These skills can be learned. And it is mastery of these competencies that allows school leaders to do transformational work. With LIFTeducation, you’ll grow your ability to: Lead, Innovate, Facilitate, and Teach.
Lead
We lead whenever we act and speak in ways that shift the behaviors and beliefs of others.
The heart of leadership is the intersection of self-awareness, empathy, and communication.
Innovate
Innovation is a necessity.
Increasingly, the world is facing novel problems. The ability to acquire understanding of these problems and to imagine solutions collaboratively is a critical skill set for leaders.
Facilitate
We facilitate when we help people collaboratively reach their goals.
The ability to facilitate teamwork is one of the most important skills required of school leaders. While running meetings frequently comes to mind when we talk about facilitation, it also includes conflict resolution and negotation.
Teach
We teach when we support others to acquire new skills and understanding.
All school leaders must understand and earnestly attempt to model effective teaching practices. Not only are school leaders required to ensure students learn, they are also responsible for the learning of adults.
Our Resources
LIFT Blog
Gaps & Channels
You’re already a great communicator. But how good are you at building communication SYSTEMS? Let’s talk about finding communication gaps and building the channels needed to fill them.
Repairing Harm
Our work is complex, often unpredictable, and above all… human. Harmful incidents are bound to occur at some point in every human community. So the question is… what do effective school leaders do AFTER harm has occurred in their schools?
Deciding How to Decide
There are countless tools designed to help us approach decisions. But there are two I use often: the Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making and the RAPID framework.
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