"We have benefited a great deal from the facilitative skills and commitment to partnership that Performance Fact has provided Sacramento City Schools. Prior to the ongoing support of Performance Fact, our practices lacked discipline. Now, our work is more aligned and headed for success."
Dr. Maggie Mejia, Superintendent
Sacramento City Unified School District (Sacramento, California)
"Despite distractions and the challenges of middle school, Performance Fact - through professional development and focus - helped us to keep our eye on the goal."
Beverly Jarrett, Vice Principal
Havenscourt Middle School (Oakland, California)
"The plan we developed through Performance Fact helped us focus our efforts, monitor our achievement of those goals, provide a tool for accountability and feedback from districts. The plan also provided a mechanism for communicating organizational initiatives with staff at department meetings and office staff meetings."
Dr. Tracy Hinish, Assistant Executive Director
Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11 (McVeytown, Pennsylvania)
"Working with Performance Fact has had a significant impact in the extent to which the district has become data-driven in its decision making processes. Building-level teams, led by the principal, have taken ownership of their data and have become proficient in the use of data to inform instructional practices."
Dr. Bill Kerr, Superintendent
Armstrong School District (Ford City, Pennsylvania)
"Performance Fact pushed my staff, as well as parents and foundation members, to look at situations that they have been uncomfortable with discussing openly in the past. Mutiu is the first facilitator that they have wholeheartedly embraced. His help was very specific to our needs. We all left our recent session with a renewed sense of hope."
Kathryn Anderson, Principal
Richmond Elementary School, Portland Public Schools (Portland, Oregon)
"Performance Fact provided us with consultation on shared decision making and collaborative process. We chose Performance Fact at the recommendation of a respected colleague. After meeting the group there was no question that we had made the right choice…It is truly impressive to see how Performance Fact was able to understand our school and its culture and mission, to understand what we were trying to accomplish and to give energy and wisdom in helping us create a structure that is uniquely suited to us."
Ellen Evans, Principal
The Meher Schools (Lafayette, California)
"I can think of no other lesson as strong as learning the importance of acting intentionally to build school climate. Performance Fact has helped me remember [the principal's] position is more than a job but a mission to grow personally and professionally. Everyday a new challenge. Everyday a new lesson."
Dhameera Ahmad, Principal
Burckhalter Elementary School (Oakland, California)
"As educators, we must continuously work towards the day when all students experience the kind of academic results that provide social and economic opportunity and lifelong fulfillment. While we know that this is not yet a reality for many Pennsylvania students, Performance Fact has helped us transform our good intentions into a focused and aligned system of school improvement from the state level to the classroom."
Dr. Gerald L. Zahorchak, Secretary of Education
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
"A highly valuable aspect of Performance Fact is that they are in close touch with the real needs of schools and districts-this quality is critical to our collaboration with any organization. We value Performance Fact's insights and responsiveness in all of their work with us."
Diane Castelbuono, Deputy Secretary
Office of Elementary & Secondary Education
Pennsylvania Department of Education (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
"Our experience in working with Performance Fact has been superb! They are insightful, knowledgeable and extremely responsive. We are a better organization because of Performance Fact."
Dr. Michael J. Dillon, Executive Director
Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8 (Altoona, Pennsylvania)
"Performance Fact did an outstanding job facilitating our professional development. The data collection spreadsheet they devised was a very helpful tool."
Participant in Principals-in-Action™ Network
Oakland Unified School District (Oakland, California)
"Performance Fact is authentic, purposeful, and in touch with the changing demands of leadership."
Dr. James Scott, Executive Director
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
"Performance Fact has helped the Pennsylvania Department of Education's work [to] build district's own capacity and link them to resources, knowledge and best practice, and [with] PDE's internal operations. … We need Performance Fact to help us think outside of the box, and help us learn what's been successful elsewhere."
Diane Castelbuono, Deputy Secretary
Office of Elementary & Secondary Education
Pennsylvania Department of Education (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
"Performance Fact provided thought leadership and critical friend review. I chose them because I knew the quality of their thinking and valued their partnership. They are continually self-reflective and willing to challenge the basic assumptions of their work in order to actually impact students and schools."
Dr. Louise Waters, Director, Knowledge, Learning & Results
Stupski Foundation (Mill Valley, California)
"I would strongly encourage any district to utilize Performance Fact's services to help a district become a deeper thinking entity and build tremendous capacity in the organization to focus its work and build a future for its students that reflects optimism, acknowledgement of needs and strengths, and an accountable planning process that brings results."
Dr. Karen Angello, Superintendent
Allentown School District (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
"As I reflect back on what I walked in with, I realize that I have grown. Performance Fact has helped me to take the various pieces of training and information and make it work synergistically with everything we have to do."
Participant, Principals-in-Action™ Network
Oakland Unified School District (Oakland, California)
