Data-Driven Decision Making Services

Public Consulting Group's Center for Resource Management (PCG-CRM) has a national reputation in data-driven decision making, and has specific expertise in facilitating data use as a core component of educational improvement initiatives such as the Smaller Learning Communities grant program, the Carnegie-funded Schools for a New Society, the NASSP Breaking Ranks Model, and the Data Wise Model for School Improvement. We believe that the use of data rather than the production of data should drive data-driven decision making initiatives. To this end, we have developed a set of products and services built upon our data use framework that address the various decision support needs of our clients, from our full-service evaluation services to our capacity-building professional development services to our data integration services. Regardless of the specific situation, our services are all designed to focus our clients on using data to make informed instructional, organizational, and programmatic decisions that ultimately improve student outcomes.

Literacy & Learning Services

PCG-CRM offers school-based literacy services to address the urgent need to improve literacy achievement. PCG-CRM's Dr. Julie Meltzer developed the researched-based Schoolwide Program for Improving Adolescent Literacy (SPIRAL) to introduce a highly systemic, schoolwide professional development program that builds school and teacher capacity to address the literacy needs of all students. SPIRAL builds upon PCG-CRM's extensive experience and expertise in systematic school reform and adolescent literacy to help schools develop and sustain schoolwide literacy structures and interventions for struggling learners.