Laura Rice Stein Consulting, LLC
For Stronger Partnerships, Organizations, & Communities
Hi! I am Laura, the founder of Laura Rice Stein Consulting. In addition to my consulting work, I am an executive coach at the Center for Racial Justice in Education and an adjunct assistant professor at the Silberman School of Social Work in New York City. I am a licensed clinical social worker and a licensed DOE vendor. My educational achievements include a PhD in Social Welfare, a Master of Science in Social Work, a Master of Science in Education, and a post-graduate certificate in systems family therapy.
I aim to guide and advance individual, group, and organizational social justice learning and best practices with Laura Rice Stein Consulting. I am particularly passionate about supporting schools, child welfare organizations and other non-profits working with racially and economically underserved and marginalized children, families, and communities. In this work, I bring a deep understanding of the vital importance for individuals, families, and communities to have a voice and shared power in the services they receive. I also bring insight into the unique relationships and influences that impact the partnership experience between service users and providers. I use this expertise to build and enhance equity and liberatory-based stakeholder partnerships. In all I do, I seek to support current and future leaders to successfully implement systematic social justice and racial equity practice, supervision, program development, and policy change.
As an individual consultant instead of a large organization with divided time, you will have the full scope of my time and attention in my work with you. Tailoring to your specific needs, I will bring flexibility, creativity, passion, leadership, and understanding that we are all lifelong learners. I will also bring my 30+ years of experience and expertise in individual, family, group, and community-based social work, education, social justice, and organizational leadership.
I welcome the opportunity to meet in person or virtually to share more of my background, hear about your hopes for your school or non-profit, and discuss how I might support your aims. Reach out today by email or phone. I look forward to speaking with you!
Services
CONSULTING
Unpack with me your strengths and struggles in leading your school or organization towards your shared vision, how you are making use of key relationships within your stakeholder partnerships, and how you are understanding this. Following, develop next steps for strengthening your team and your partnership relationships for a stronger school or organizational community and improved outcomes.
ASSESSMENT
Who are the key stakeholders at your school or organization? How do they feel about your partnership relationship? How do they experience them? What do they believe are the unique influences impacting these partnerships? What are the strengths and influences within these relationships that can be built upon? What are the struggles that can be learned from? I will support and guide you in assessing this and more in order for you to best harness the collective power of your school or organizational community for the benefit of all.
WORKSHOPS
Through various workshops focused on social justice, just practice, liberation-based practice, and making best use of your biggest tool in your work - you, and more, your staff will be best positioned to effectively guide and support the individuals, families, and communities your school or organization works with and for.
COACHING
As leaders, we seek to actualize our school, organizational, or department vision, supervise staff, oversee and manage day-to-day tasks and responsibilities, be active with our service users, and more. To be most effective, we must also pay attention to understanding ourselves as leaders and nurturing our professional growth. With one-on-one coaching, I will support you in articulating what kind of leader you want to be and identifying your strengths and struggles in actualizing this. We will co-create a plan to strengthen your leadership skills and presence, and I will provide feedback and guidance in implementing this plan. You will come away with a more nuanced understanding of yourself as a leader, greater confidence in your skills, and a more robust ability to execute your vision for yourself and your school, organization, or department.
Contact me today to schedule a free consultation
Strengthening Family-School Partnerships
It’s understood that children have better educational outcomes when families and schools work together in partnership. However, many schools and educators regularly struggle in forming effective partnerships with those they serve. A critical voice too often missing from our discussions on how to improve these partnerships is that of the parents themselves. In my research, I learned from parents that there are four key relationships and four key influencing factors within family-school partnerships.
When your school works with me, I will support you in understanding how the unique relationships and influencing factors at your school are impacting your family-school partnerships. As such, you will come away with:
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A more holistic understanding of your school's family-school partnerships, allowing you to:
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More deeply assess the strengths and struggles in your school's family-school partnerships;
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Co-create partnerships where parents are subjects, not objects, in their relationship and partnership experience; and
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Better position your school community to build new partnerships and improve existing ones.
Contact me today. I look forward to working with you!
Conferences, Workshops, & Webinars
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