For Principals, Directors, and Superintendents
Better Parents. Better Outcomes.
Schools are expected to solve problems they didn't create and often cannot solve alone.
Attendance. Behavior. Academic Performance. School Culture. Staff Retention.
WHY SCHOOLS STAY STUCK
You've invested in everything inside your building.
The last problem lives outside it.
Chronic Absenteeism
Every seat that stays empty costs you ADA funding and academic momentum. When attendance is low, everything else suffers — and the cause is almost always rooted in what's happening at home.
Suspensions and Referrals
High discipline numbers don't just disrupt classrooms. They signal a culture problem to parents, district leadership, and the community. And they keep climbing when the behavior happening at home goes unaddressed.
Teacher Turnover
Your best teachers leave when the environment wears them down. Difficult behavior, disengaged families, and low morale push great educators out the door and make recruitment harder every year.
Declining Enrollment
Parents are choosing other schools and homeschooling. Every family that leaves takes funding with them. Schools that cannot demonstrate strong culture, safety, and family partnership are losing the competition for students.
Everything you have invested in your school is working the way it was intended. Your teachers are better trained. Your systems are stronger. Your commitment to your students is clear. And yet some problems persist because the solution lives somewhere your current investments cannot reach.
Most schools know parents are a critical piece of the puzzle. But telling parents how to parent better is uncomfortable territory. It can feel presumptuous, intrusive, or like overstepping a boundary that schools aren't sure they have the right to cross. That discomfort is exactly why the gap stays open.
The Intentional Parent Institute steps into that space so you don't have to. We deliver the coaching and training your parent community needs, in a way that feels supportive rather than judgmental, so your school gets the results that only happen when home and school are finally working together.
THE QUESTION YOU ARE ALREADY ASKING
The parents who need support most are often the ones least likely to show up to a school event. They fear judgment. They worry about what their child's teacher or principal might think of them. They lack the confidence to ask for help.
|How do I get the parents who need this program to show up?
The Intentional Parent Institute reaches those parents because we are not connected to your school. Parents feel safe. They learn without shame. They receive college-level parenting education in the comfort of their own home, at no cost to them. Most importantly, we have been where they are, and we have no judgment. That changes everything.
THE SOLUTION
Your parent community has never had a program like this. Until now.
The Intentional Parent Institute runs twice a year, fall and spring, with a new cohort each semester. Each week parents attend two sessions — one focused training and one live Q&A — for ten consecutive weeks. That is twenty touchpoints per semester, forty per year, building the kind of consistent relationship between your school and your parent community that a single workshop or parent night could never create.
This is contracted annually because results compound. One year changes behavior. Two years changes culture. Three years changes everything.
Parents receive guidance on child development during prenatal care. Then it stops. There is no continuing instruction on parenting, behavior, communication, or child development for the rest of that child's life — unless someone creates it. That is exactly what The Intentional Parent Institute does.
And here is what every principal already knows but rarely says out loud: your students spend more time at home than they do at school. It is time your investment reflected that.
Who You Are Bringing In
I did not study schools from the outside.
I led them from the inside.
I have been a classroom teacher, instructional coach, assistant principal, turnaround principal, graduate school professor at Loyola Marymount University, and Teach For America corps member and trainer. I have made your calls, faced your parents, and led schools serving predominantly low-income students of color. I built this program because I lived the gap it closes.
As a teacher, 76% of my students scored proficient or advanced on the California Standards Test, 26 points above the state average, at a Title I school serving 90 to 95% students of color and 75 to 80% low-income students.
As a founding charter school principal, I retained 100% of my teachers in my first year.
I have helped charter schools earn approvals, renewals, and WASC accreditation.
Awards: Sacramento Kings Dream All-Star Educator Award
Ocean Science Leadership Award
Degrees: BA Political Science, BA History, USC
MA Elementary Education, Loyola Marymount University
MBA, Keller Graduate School
Your Next Step
Your school deserves this.
Your parents are ready. Let's talk.
Schedule a free 30-minute discovery call. You will hear directly about the program, how it works inside a school like yours, and what implementation looks like for your community. Come with your questions. We will come prepared with answers.