K-12 Services

Gallup's K-12 Services offer a comprehensive path to school success. In a business setting, an organization's ultimate goal may be increasing profit or raising stock price. In the education field, however, the outcome is much different. The ultimate goal of a school district is to add value to the community through effective education, and Gallup's talented education consultants will work with you to optimize the efforts you make every day.

Great Teachers

The most important choice an educational leader makes is who to put in the classroom, which is why selecting great teachers is the first and most vital step to school success. Great teachers not only challenge students to grow, they also encourage and engage their peers, building the foundation for great schools. Gallup's research-based selection and development supports districts to find more teachers like the very best - teachers who drive student engagement and achievement.

Great Principals

Even the most talented teachers need the support of great leaders to make the most of their abilities. Great principals communicate a vision of what the students and the school can become that engages students, staff, and parents. The power to lead and influence great teaching while driving positive change within a school is what makes principals truly great.

If our students are to be successful, school districts must make an investment in their leadership by planning for succession. Gallup helps districts select principals on talent -- an innate ability -- by identifying principals like those that are achieving the most success. More importantly, Gallup can help districts build a succession pipeline of quality aspiring principals and assistant principals, building a deep pool of talented future leaders.

Strengths-Based Development

Strengths-based development enables individuals to capitalize on their talents -- their natural patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior -- and supports them in building talents into strengths. Through seminars, publications, workshops, and consulting, Gallup supports your staff and students focus on what makes them uniquely great. By optimizing the strengths of every person in your school, you increase the impact your school makes.

"You can't be anything you want to be, but you can be a whole lot more of what you already are." -- Curt Liesveld, coauthor of Living Your Strengths

Engaged Employees

Engaged schools are places of learning where talents are optimized and individuals are challenged and supported. Engaged employees are the first step to engaged schools. Through measurement and development, Gallup helps raise awareness of engagement for all employees and provides unique insights into real action planning that drives crucial outcomes. Higher levels of engagement are linked to increased productivity, decreased turnover, increased attendance, improved well-being, and more.

Engaged Students

An engaged workforce helps to engage students. Students who are engaged in their school are more open to learning, growing, and innovating. Higher levels of student engagement lead to increased student achievement, maximizing the impact of a school. Engagement in a school is contagious, leading to sustained growth.

Sustained Growth

In an engaged school, students experience a classroom that adds to their abilities and knowledge every single day, driving sustained growth. From the first day students enter a classroom to the day they receive a diploma, their continual growth as students and human beings is vital. It is the goal of a community to educate its students, and when schools are at their best, this growth continues throughout their lives.

Measurable Outcomes

Engagement is a target that can only be reached by focusing on the needs of students, teachers, and staff. Reaching engagement is a difficult and ongoing effort, but the outcomes are both powerful and real.
In a world that is increasingly linked to measurable results, the education field must be able to tie efforts made to meaningful outcomes. Gallup can bring together the measures schools currently use with additional measures of hope, well-being, engagement, and talents and strengths to create a comprehensive view of success within your school.

Value to Community

Ultimately, the goal is to provide a return on the community's investment in the schools, and, thereby, add value to the community. The way to do this is through effective education, and the best way to reach this goal is to begin with a focus on the individual. Gallup's extensive research into the science of strengths provides a unique insight into the human beings who make up your schools. The time is now to make an impact. The time is now to focus on the most important resource we have -- our students and the people who help them learn.