Drawing on our team’s decades experience working with state and local education leaders and at all levels of system change in education, CFEWP supports State Education Agency (SEA) officials across a broad spectrum of policy and system areas. CFEWP’s national experience with education policies, stakeholder engagement and working with SEAs uniquely positions us to serve as a trusted strategic advisor to state education chiefs and their teams, Governors, State Boards of Education (SBOEs), and workgroups or bodies responsible for solving complex issues in education.
SEAs and Chief State School Officers (CSSOs) are too-often caught in a balancing act – juggling dwindling resources, limited bandwidth and new education policies. Across the country, SEAs are being pushed to do more to drive change in K-12 education, with less. Our teams have worked with SEAs across the country on projects addressing a wide variety of challenges including policy design and advancement, implementing new policies, evaluating and improving internal structures, systems, operations and customer service. We couple our national perspective with our team’s on-the-ground experiences to help SEAs understand how policies are playing out in real schools and districts. And as our team spots trends across districts, it equips SEAs with national research and best practices.

CFEWP understands the challenges, opportunities, and realities when it comes to state policy and state systems, because our team members have worked with SEAs across the country to design, advance, and implement policy and system changes. We work with state leaders across the full continuum of change from goal setting, stakeholder engagement, and developing policy frameworks to planning for and managing comprehensive implementation plans including communications and systems for program monitoring, support, and continuous improvement.