For Principals, Superintendents, and other School Leaders
Behavior referrals don't start in your building.
They start at home before your students ever walk in.
They Intentional Parent Institute trains the parents behind your hardest cases and your strongest family, fixing the culture problems that are quietly costing you your best teachers.
Meet the Founder, Kaleesha Washington
Kaleesha Washington spent nearly two decades in education as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, assistant principal, principal and a professor in the Graduate School of Education at Loyola Marymount University. She has been both a founding principal of a charter school and a turnaround principal of a failing school, so she knows what you may be struggling with in any of these situations. She has worked in low-income communities of color and in predominantly white schools with middle to higher incomes. She has worked with English learners and kids with special needs of all ages, elementary, middle school, and high school, so there are very few situations she hasn't encountered. Kaleesha is also the parent of two adult children and has five grandchildren that she has a direct hand in helping to raise. This program was not created based on theory, but on actual experience inside the school and at home.
Why this matters right now
Your staffing budget has a parenting problem hiding inside it.
You are already paying for this, whether or not you have a line item for it.
Every unmanaged behavior issue shows up somewhere: in a teacher's stress level, in a substitute budget, in an exit interview.
52%
of teachers point to managing student behavior as their leading source of job-related stress.
RAND, 2025 State of the American Teacher Survey
$25,000
is roughly what it costs a large district to replace a single teacher who walks away.
Learning Policy Institute, 2024
~1%
of all public education spending nationwide goes to substitute teachers, a bill that runs into the billions every year.
Brookings Institution
58%
of teachers nationwide say student behavior in their classroom would improve if parents had instruction on how to teach their kids to behave appropriately at school.
EdWeek Research Center, State of Teaching survey, 2025
The Intentional Parent Institute
is built around the outcomes
you're already accountable for.
Teacher Retention
When behavior support starts at home, your reachers spend less of the year absorbing what a family was never taught to prevent, and fewer of them walk away mid-year.
Substitute and turnover spend
Every teacher you keep is real money back in your budget instead of going to a $25,000 replacement bill or another year of substitute costs.
Behavior referrals
A structured, required intervention for the families driving repeat referrals, addressing the root instead of managing the recurring symptom.
School culture and attendance
A visible, growing group of parents actively reinforcing the culture you're building, and families who understand how home stability shows up as consistent attendance.