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Professional learning that strengthens engagement, culture, and leadership—without adding another initiative.

Schurtz & Ties partners with schools and districts to create clarity in classrooms and coherence across systems. Our work helps educators design learning environments where students know what to do now, what to do next, and remain willing to do the work.

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What we do

We help schools move from fragmented efforts to a coherent, human-centered approach—where instruction, behavior, and culture reinforce each other.

Six+1 Engagement Framework

A practical framework for planning, teaching, and reflection that moves beyond compliance and entertainment. It helps educators build engagement intentionally across intellectual, behavioral, social, emotional, cultural, physical, and personal dimensions.

Best for: Whole-staff PD Instructional coaching Curriculum teams

Leadership & Culture

Culture is not built on charisma. It’s built on clarity, consistency, and shared expectations. We support leadership teams in aligning vision with daily practice so staff experience stability, trust, and purpose.

Best for: Principals Leadership teams District leaders

Accountability & Behavior Systems

Accountability isn’t punishment, and consequences alone don’t build responsibility. We help schools design systems that emphasize clarity, follow-through, and dignity—reducing reactivity while increasing ownership.

Best for: Consistency Shared language Durable routines

Teacher Clarity & Instructional Design

When teachers are expected to motivate, manage, and remediate simultaneously, burnout follows. We help teams design lessons, routines, and environments that reduce friction so instruction—not constant redirection—becomes the focus.

Signature keynotes & workshops

Pick a ready-to-run session, or we’ll design a sequence that fits your goals, timeline, and staff needs. Formats include 60–90 minute keynotes, half-day or full-day workshops, and leadership intensives.

Engagement Is Built, Not Demanded Why engagement problems are often design problems—and how the Six+1 framework restores coherence.

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Participants leave with a clear understanding of engagement as an experience we design, not a trait we demand. We connect engagement to clarity, routines, relationships, identity, emotion, and the learning environment—then translate that into concrete moves teachers can use immediately.

Accountability Without Punishment How clarity and follow-through outperform control and compliance in building responsibility and trust.

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This session reframes accountability as a culture practice—not a discipline system. We focus on clarity, consistency, and “closing the loop” so expectations become dependable, relationships remain intact, and improvement becomes the default outcome.

Designing for “Now, Next, Willing” Hands-on planning for lessons and routines that eliminate ambiguity and increase student willingness.

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Participants learn how to design tasks, routines, and environments so students know what to do now, what to do next, and remain willing to do the work—without relying on constant prompting, persuasion, or escalation.

From Vision to Daily Practice A leadership intensive that translates beliefs into systems teachers can rely on every day.

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We help leadership teams turn “what we believe” into “what we do.” Expect practical alignment work: expectations, communication, routines, and decision rules that reduce drift and increase trust.

How this works

A simple process that keeps the work grounded, customized, and implementable.

1) Discovery We learn your context, goals, constraints, and non-negotiables.

2) Design We tailor the session(s) to your staff, timeline, and priorities.

3) Delivery Keynote, workshop, leadership intensive, or multi-session series.

4) Support Optional follow-up coaching, resources, and reflection tools.

What participants leave with

A shared language for engagement and accountability
Practical tools teachers can use immediately
Clear expectations that reduce confusion and conflict
A framework that aligns instruction, behavior, and culture