School Implementation Consulting
Advancing Teen Well-being Through School Start Time Reform
For school superintendents, school boards, and other school leaders
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As a school leader, you recognize the compelling evidence for later secondary school start times, but gaining consensus among your community and staff is challenging. |
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The good news is hundreds of school districts and the entire state of California have switched to healthier, safer school hours that let kids get the sleep their growing brains and bodies need. |
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Many districts have seen:
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Whether you're working toward policy change or ready to make a smooth transition, we can help through our Implementation Consulting Service.
How We Support You |
Creating A Strategy |
Developing a process for your district based on what's worked in other communities, tailored to your district's unique needs. |
Building School Support |
Training to ensure your team understands and can communicate the need for and benefits of change. Connecting your team with superintendents who have led successful change and experts in transportation, athletics, or other school operations to help you create your own blueprint for change. |
Building Community Support |
Educational materials and speakers to raise awareness among community stakeholders through:
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We're committed to working alongside you in this crucial endeavor, by offering:
- Expert Advice and Coaching: Our team of experienced school leaders and change-management experts, ensure you have the support you need to adopt and implement feasible solutions.
- Clear Answers: We can help you provide clear and concise answers and proven solutions to tough school and community questions and concerns about perceived logistical challenges.
- Strategic Planning: We can assess your needs and capabilities and use them to build a customized and actionable roadmap to keep your initiative on track.
- Community Engagement and Education: We can provide compelling educational materials and speakers with expertise in areas including adolescent sleep health, impact of later start times, and change management to help boost awareness and secure buy-in from community stakeholders.
- Measure Success: We can help develop and analyze pre- and post-surveys to clearly demonstrate the positive impact of your initiatives.
Meet our Team!
Phyllis Payne, MPH, a co-founder of SLEEP in Fairfax who works with communities throughout the USA and beyond as Start School Later's Implementation Director. Phyllis has a strong background in school implementation, community health education and outreach, and successfully advocating for healthy school start times.
Terra Ziporyn Snider, PhD, Start School Later's Executive Director has worked for over two decades helping school and community leaders find feasible, affordable ways to start school later. An award-winning author and seasoned health and medical writer with a doctorate in the history of science and medicine and experience as an associate editor at JAMA, Terra possesses a deep understanding of the practical aspects of turning health research into school policy.
Our Team at Start School Later will:
Terra Ziporyn Snider, PhD, Start School Later's Executive Director has worked for over two decades helping school and community leaders find feasible, affordable ways to start school later. An award-winning author and seasoned health and medical writer with a doctorate in the history of science and medicine and experience as an associate editor at JAMA, Terra possesses a deep understanding of the practical aspects of turning health research into school policy.
Our Team at Start School Later will:
- Lighten your workload: Provide resources and help your team follow protocols that have proved effective in other districts.
- Build community trust: Proactively identify and mitigate potential missteps to ensure your positive public image.
- Partner with experts: Provide a team of experienced school leaders and change-management experts to work alongside you, providing advice and coaching so you're not navigating this process alone.
About Us
Start School Later is a 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to ensure schools give children of every age an opportunity to get the essential sleep they need to be healthy, safe, and successful.
Our international coalition of over 165 volunteer-led chapters, sleep and health experts, educators, parents, students, and other concerned citizens is making a real difference, with groundbreaking school start time laws in hundreds of school districts switching to safer, healthier hours.
We support our coalition through vital Chapter and Advocacy Guidance, Sleep Health Education, and School Implementation Consulting programs.
Our international coalition of over 165 volunteer-led chapters, sleep and health experts, educators, parents, students, and other concerned citizens is making a real difference, with groundbreaking school start time laws in hundreds of school districts switching to safer, healthier hours.
We support our coalition through vital Chapter and Advocacy Guidance, Sleep Health Education, and School Implementation Consulting programs.
Ready to Connect?
If you're interested in exploring a school implementation plan focused on your needs that will have a better chance of success and save you time and energy, please reach out to Phyllis Payne.