Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
Consulting
Storyweaving Consulting tailors active, practical, and contemporary strategies for trainings, learning tools, and research initiatives.
We provide services grounded in data-focused, evidence-based practices and informed by qualitative methods, offering active learning and problem-solving that centers on your challenges, strengths and goals. At the center of Storyweaving Consulting is awareness of the stories that are at the heart of organizational cultures and initiatives. These stories, often expressed by mission and vision statements, but sometimes hidden in policies and practices, can either block innovation or fuel and support healthy organizational and social change. Understanding the professional and personal stories that shape a group’s decisions is key for designing meaningful trainings and supporting strategic teams. Storyweaving assesses the needs of leaders, educators, administrators, students, parents, and other team stakeholders as we work together to co-create practical and visionary professional development. Online, face-to-face, and blended learning are available, depending on your needs.
Recent Storyweaving Consulting Projects
Center for Spiritual Living (Hawaii, Columbia, Fairfax Centers)
Storyweaving leadership development program focuses on all levels of leadership: board, community leaders, and congregation, supporting transitions with ministers , co-created organizational structure, spiritual branding, growth and expansion. Zoom and in-person workshops, talks, and planning sessions.
Delaware Department of Education
Storyweaving is currently serving in a broad project management, research, and evaluation role to pilot, revise, and design trainings for Social-Emotional-Learning (SEL), Transition Planning, Work-Based-Learning, Equity Development Programs across the state. We prepared key white papers and research publications for Delaware’s K-12+ ongoing Transition Initiative, and support innovation and expansion with focus-groups, grant-writing, leadership coaching, and professional trainings.
National Alliance for Partnership in Equity (NAPE)
Training and Curriculum Development, PIPEline to Equity for Students with Disabilities, PIPEline to Equity for NonTradtional Careers.
Researcher/Writer for updated Literature Review about equity for all at-risk students and populations in CTE/STEM fields, Equity in CTE & STEM: Root Causes and Strategies (2022). Cited in Techniques, April 2022, and a resource for current interdisciplinary and integrative approaches to analyzing and addressing root causes for exclusion and bias.
Researcher/Writer for PIPEline to Equity for Students with Disabilities:
Created workbook, training manuals, literature review (2019/2021 editions) for this pioneering program to bring the PIPE process to specifically support equity in CTE/STEM for students with disabilities (SWD)
Researcher/Writer for NAPE’s 2021 Mission Alignment:
Researched and wrote the Root Cause Literature Review for Equity in CTE/STEM, 2021, focusing on Education, Employment, Community, and Individual causes for exclusion, with tools for evidence-based interventions and best practices to increase equity. Co-author on Equity in CTE/STEM: A Call to Action.
Leader for webinars and trainings introducing this broad interdisciplinary approach to inclusion in CTE/STEM career paths.
Opportunity Brokers Consortium
As part of a growing group of educational experts, Carol Burbank designs online and face-to-face trainings and prepares white papers to present best practices for teaching and learning. Maryland, Delaware, Rhode Island, Nevada, and other states.
Tilson & Diaz Associates
As a sub-contractor, she serves as a researcher, trainer, and editor/writer for select projects supporting university and K-12 educators with professional development.
“Carol has an uncanny understanding of the needs of school systems, educators, and young people, alike. She is a visionary and a thought partner who rolls up her sleeves and jumps into the trenches to develop quality products and programs. Carol has a unique way of simultaneously pushing and supporting educators to challenge their thinking and make systemic changes to provide equitable access, supports, and outcomes for every learner. She is smart, fair, strong, and compassionate; truly one of kind!”
— Lisa Stoner-Torbert, Former CTE Policy Advisor, Delaware Department of Education
Contact us.
Let me know something about your goals and questions, and we’ll schedule a time to get to know each other and see how Storyweaving can help you or your teams work smarter (not harder!) and more creatively.
I look forward to meeting you.