Valuing Tradition

Envisioning the Future

Valuing Tradition

Envisioning the Future

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School Management Consulting

Marshall Education Group delivers innovative school management consulting solutions to start, grow, and improve private and proprietary schools.

With services such as school governance and management consulting, curriculum development, professional training, keynote speaking, and provision of interim head of schools, Marshall Education Group provides a proven methodology that leads to success for administrators, teachers, and students. Peruse our website to learn how improved education is just a click away. Through strategic partnerships with Confluence Courseware and ICON Digital Solutions MEG now integrates its services to seamlessly include consulting, digital e-Texts and web site design, hosting and marketing. Please contact us to set up a COMPLEMENTARY FIRST CONSULTATION.

Strategic Partner

Contemporary Communications, Inc.

A full-service boutique advertising and design firm that makes a point to really get to know each and every client and what their goals are. From logo design and initial branding initiatives to annual reports, total website design and programming to email campaigns—and so much more—we can help your organization achieve the recognition it needs to be successful.

Team

Rodney J. Marshall, Ed.D.

President and Senior Consultant for Marshall Education Group, and Editor-in-Chief, Confluence Courseware, LLC

Rodney J. Marshall is Senior Consultant at Marshall Education Group, and Editor-in-Chief at Confluence Courseware. Marshall Education Group provides innovative governance and management solutions for Christian and classical schools. Confluence Courseware provides digital K-14 curricula by merging great books, conversations and digital delivery. Has earned a B.A. in Business Administration, a M.A. in Philosophy and  Religion and a Doctor of Education.

Rodney has served as lead consultant to start, grow, manage and improve many K-12 schools in the United States and abroad. Most recently he has provided transitional head of school and advisory services to several schools and school board in the United States. As Founder of Coram Deo Academy, he led a team that grew this innovative classical school from start-up to over a thousand students while achieving regional accreditation. Coram Deo is now the largest classical Christian school in the world. As Director of Global Development for a Christian school curriculum publisher, Rodney provided curriculum and administrative support services to 1,700 schools worldwide while addressing educators and public officials on five continents. Rodney enjoys persuasive discourse on numerous and diverse subjects­ education, liberty, vocational nobility, biblical worldview, executive leadership, history, entrepreneurship, economics, politics, theology, and apologetics, and likes birdwatching, sports, and the outdoors.

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Robi A. Marshall

Senior Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Development Consultant for Marshall Education Group.

Robi A. Marshall energetically provides training and consulting for the Marshall Education Group, a boutique advisory providing innovative solutions for classical and Christian Schools. Through this service, Robi leverages 40 years of experience working as and with boards, administrators, teachers, parents and students. Active in the educational field since 1976, her resume includes launching and developing successful Christian schools, assisting in the renaissance of the classical Christian movement, and innovating new programs within existing classical schools. Having spoken at over one hundred public forums explaining the depth of and necessity for classical education, she regularly trains classical Christian faculty and consults with their school leadership and boards. Robi has been a popular speaker at Women in the Church events, homeschooling and Christian school conferences; speaking on a diverse slate of topics including the arts, understanding the brain, self-education and classical pedagogy.  A contributor to educational journals, Robi was featured on a television program viewed across the country speaking on great books.  Her curriculum vitae also includes video-recording training workshops used throughout the Christian educational world. As Coram Deo Academy co-founder and Curriculum Director, Robi drew from her years as a marketing trainer for a large Christian curriculum publisher, where she conducted ongoing classroom training for 140 employees on customer service, new educational products and educational pedagogy.  Additionally, Robi worked for three Christian educational companies writing curriculum, video scripts, and developing a self- discovery tool helping teens identify their unique, God-given design and understand how their talents could benefit the world.  

Since 2012, Robi has assisted numerous classical Christian schools providing interim leadership, working to develop their programs, course of studies, procedures, training faculty in climate and culture all to help them develop into thriving schools. 

Firmly believing the Latin proverb, Cum docemus discismus, While we teach, we learn—Robi remains passionate about cultivating a comprehensive liberal arts education for the flourishing of the human soul.  She constantly pursues new knowledge and greater understanding. Her vivacious and vigorous scholarship ignites and inspires those around her. With a myriad of educational experience, Robi remains eager to provide help and resources for people enthusiastic to learn more.

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Fees

Professional Training, Advisory and School Start-up Services

Please contact us for a COMPLEMENTARY INITIAL CONSULTATION.
Hourly rate thereafter: $150
01. Head of School Advisory

A negotiated retainer or hourly rate to provide the Head of School access by telecommunication to a successful, experienced school founder, head, and board chair every week. The Headmaster can use a good advisor.

02. The Strategic Academy Consultation

Assessment and action plan recommendations on how to start and grow, or how to improve almost any aspect of school life. Pricing varies depending on customized service based on an approved proposal. We use nationally recognized Performance Standards that form a great framework for this kind of an assessment, and help the school simultaneously prepare for future accreditation.

03. Interim Head of School

Subject to availability, Robi or Rodney Marshall can provide on site school start up, interim, and sabbatical oversight for a school anywhere in the United States. With 40 years of experience each brings stability and provide a seamless transition to a permanent head.

04. Dr. Rodney J. Marshall, President

Head of school, administrative, and board governance consulting, professional training and strategic academy consultation.

05. Robi A. Marshall, Senior Consultant:

Teaching, learning, and curriculum consulting, and faculty training.

06. Accreditation Service: Consultant

Guide school through the accreditation process.

07. Identity Package with Branding and Logo Development with Contemporary Communications:
08. Comprehensive Start a School Service

Services

RESULTS DRIVEN DESIGN.

Marshall Education Group is committed to renewing classical liberal arts education in private and home schools with innovative solutions from experienced educators. We offer a wide range of services designed to help you to start, grow, and improve classical and Christian schools. This includes: professional training, advisory services, and our proven Learning Repository. Download our brochure below to learn more about how Marshall Education Group can help you. Please contact us for a COMPLEMENTARY INITIAL CONSULTATION.

Download “Classical Education for Schools and Homeschools”

Keynote & Seminar Speaking

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Start A School

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Consulting & Advisory Services

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Confluence Courseware

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Icon Digital Solutions

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Classical

Marshall Education Group can implement a complete PreK-G12 classical curriculum for homeschools, coops, new day schools and schools that are converting or supplementing their educational program to the classical model. We can customize the curriculum plan or integrate Classical Learning Repository owned by Confluence Courseware, a strategic partner.

What is Classical Education?

Sample Curriculum

Articles & Media

HEADMASTER LECTURE SERIES

I am planning multiple articles on each of the three characteristics of the effective school Headmaster as 1) visionary, 2) head teacher, and 3) CEO. These articles will culminate in an e-book, or manual suitable for mentoring, a major seminar or university level coursework for aspiring and developing school headmasters. The conspicuous absence of works on this subject, a great desire to develop the next generation of idea and organizational leaders, and a long and successful career as a headmaster fire my drive to embark on this project. Consider that the average stay of a headmaster at an independent school is less than four years, a time far to short for effective leadership. Effective educational leadership is so important that I would like to contribute to its improvement with the intention of improving schools. It is just too important to the future to leave the subject as underdeveloped as it is at present. Hopefully sharing both ideas and real life examples from my own experience will make this a valuable tool that is also interesting to read.

A Brief Philosophy of Education: Valuing Tradition – Envisioning the Future

We offer Head of School Training & Mentoring – The Headmaster can use a good advisor

Consistent with the tradition of classical school headmasters as Headmaster of Coram Deo Academy I led the college of faculty as head teacher, and thus held regular lectures, and discussions with students in classes, and assemblies. Caput magister, Latin for head master means the head teacher of the academy. At CDA, I once enjoyed teaching theology and all of the history classes in grades six through twelve. Academy expansion required departure from the classroom to assure that qualitative development paralleled quantitative growth. Following is series of lectures delivered to all students in grades 8-12 at both the Collin County, and Flower Mound campuses of Coram Deo Academy in 2009-2010. Guests were welcome.

Grade 8: The Drama of Scripture
Grade 8: Battle of Marathon or Thermopylae/Salamis
Grade 9: Epiphany; The Revelation of Jesus Christ to the World
Grade 9: The Christian Theory of Justifiable War
Grade 10: How the Irish Saved Civilization
Grade 10: The Age of the Vikings
Grade 11: Political Visions and Illusions
Grade 11: Dutch Theologian and Activist, Abraham Kuyper’s Idea of Sphere Sovereignty
Grade 12: On the Christian Commonwealth – the Christian Idea of Civil Covenant
Grade 12: The Inestimable Right of Self Government

Consistent with the tradition of classical school headmasters the Headmaster is a teacher of teachers, and thus lectures to and leads discussions with the college of faculty to instill mission, vision, core values, and classical pedagogy at meetings of faculty. Unlike the modernist model of the head of a school as exclusively a professional administrator, caput magister, means the head teacher of the academy. Following are a few samples of addresses by the headmaster to the assembled college of faculty.

The Liberating Affects of a Liberal Arts Education
Classical Education as Christian Liberal Arts Education
Christian Liberal Arts Education and Freedom
Historic Christian Worldview
Saving Civilization, The Transforming Power of Redemption
Play the Game! Classical Education and Athletics
The Drama of Scripture; The Story-Line of the Bible

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Clients

Seattle Classical Christian School

Provide advice to the school board as needed, mentor the head of school, and provide weekly on site mentoring of faculty to improve teaching and learning.

Arma Dei Academy

Highlands Ranch, CO – School board and management, training and development. Designed launch of rhetoric school.

Cary Christian School

Cary, NC – School management, head of school development, curriculum revision, and planning

Christian Financial Concepts

Marketing management and writing

Coram Deo Academy

Provide services to found, govern, head, and grow this academy to become the largest in enrollment classical Christian school, while innovating a flexible scheduling model encouraging parents to choose 2, 3 or 5 day programs. Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, TX

Brave Academy

Provide school start-up services

Island Christian Academy

Provide advisory and consulting services to the head of school for the growth and improvement of the academy.

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