Starling Collaborative

We support schools and organizations to intentionally build the capacity, skill, and motivation needed to create holistically restorative and effective working and learning environments. 

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Our work is based on the understanding that if we all experience safety, belonging, empowerment, and respect we can thrive as learners, employees, and leaders and help others to thrive as well. This belief informs everything we do, from assessing your strengths and listening to your unique needs, to building the capacity, skills, and motivation within your organization to thrive on your own. Our approach...

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• leverages improvement science and the power of "street data" to motivate change from the ground up;

• centers the voices of those impacted by proposed changes within schools and organizations;

• uses data collecting systems to track the needs and aspirations of all members of the communities we support before facilitating change;

• examines all work through the distinct but interconnected lenses of restorative practices, equity, trauma-informed practices, mindfulness, and social emotional learning;

• disrupts the "breathless quality" of school and organizational culture where wellness and equity are sacrificed for productivity and efficiency;

• supports a relational and needs based approach to building effective and thriving teams;

• uses data to inform decision making, professional learning, and measure implementation fidelity, and impact;

• integrates holistic restorative change with existing initiatives and programs to strengthen staff buy-in, engagement, and sustainability of the work; and,

• creates robust structures and/or revises existing ones to hold the work in sustainable and equitable ways, i.e. teams, procedures, communications, processes, pedagogy.