Educational consulting

Professional learning that turns priorities into practice.

HEIR partners with educators, school leaders, districts, nonprofits, and community organizations to strengthen literacy instruction, leadership capacity, and the learning environments students deserve.

Educators participating in a professional learning workshopLiteracy-centered learning designed for real classrooms and real communities.
Our focus

Every educator can help more students become confident readers.

Grounded in cognitive science, linguistics, and educational research, HEIR designs learning experiences that help educators translate knowledge into effective, usable classroom practice.

Our work respects both the urgency of literacy outcomes and the daily realities of teaching, leading, and supporting learners.

Workshop lineup

Practical learning for the work already in front of your team.

Each workshop can stand on its own or become part of a customized professional learning sequence for your organization.

01Literacy

Science of Reading

Build a clear understanding of how students learn to read and how to translate that understanding into daily instructional practice.

02Literacy

Structured Literacy

Strengthen explicit, systematic instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.

03Engagement

Literacy & Gamification

Blend rigorous literacy instruction with game-based strategies that build participation, accountability, and retention.

04Integration

Reading Across the Curriculum

Help students access complex texts, build content knowledge, and develop critical reading skills in every subject area.

05Integration

Writing Across the Curriculum

Use writing to deepen learning, reflection, communication, and mastery across science, social studies, the arts, and more.

06Culture

Classroom Culture & Management

Build positive systems through strong relationships, proactive structures, trauma-informed approaches, and de-escalation tools.

07Instruction

Active Learning Strategies

Increase student participation and academic success with differentiated, collaborative, and technology-aware instructional methods.

08Schoolwide change

Every Teacher, a Reading Teacher

Support district-level literacy turnaround through differentiated interventions, data-informed practice, and a shared culture of reading.

09Life skills

Financial Literacy for Educators

Give educators practical knowledge and resources to teach budgeting, saving, investing, and debt management in relevant ways.

10Custom learning

Tailored Professional Development

Create high-impact workshops shaped around your organization’s leadership, behavior, literacy, communication, and learning goals.

Well suited for

Teams who carry the work of learning every day.

  • K–12 educators and interventionists
  • School and district administrators
  • Instructional coaches and program facilitators
  • After-school and community-based program leaders
  • Education-focused nonprofit organizations
  • Educational entrepreneurs
Participants leave with

Tools that make the next day’s work more actionable.

  • Research-backed literacy strategies
  • Implementation-ready lesson frameworks
  • Tools to assess and monitor reading progress
  • Strategies for engagement and accountability
  • Action steps for literacy-rich learning environments
  • A clearer plan for supporting students across settings
Why HEIR

The goal is not a one-day event. It is a stronger system for learning.

Every engagement is designed to honor educator expertise while creating a shared, usable path for better instruction and better student outcomes.

The HEIR belief
“Literacy is not just a skill—it is the foundation for lifelong opportunity.”

We believe professional learning should give educators both the confidence and the practical tools to make meaningful changes where they matter most.

Plan your learning engagement

Bring your literacy and learning goals into one conversation.

Tell us about your educators, learners, and priorities. We can shape a workshop or professional learning sequence that fits your context.