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Meet Our Founder
"The evidence reveals that educators of color aren't leaving kids. They're leaving leaders. ILM Consulting Group exists to change that by training and coaching the leaders who shape the ecosystems where educators, and the students they serve, can thrive."
- Andrea Terrero Gabbadon, Ph.D.
Our Services
ILM Consulting Group provides two lines of service: Instructional Leadership and Management (ILM), our professional learning and coaching, and Affirming Schools, our evidence-based work to retain educators of color, grounded in Dr. Gabbadon's book, Support and Retain Educators of Color: Six Principles for Culturally Affirming Leadership.
Leadership Professional Learning
Administrators are one of the single greatest factors in whether educators of color stay or leave. Conversely,
educators who feel supported by their leaders are 2x as likely to stay (Carver-Thomas & Darling-
Hammond, 2017). Turnover is a solveable problem– and it starts with your leadership team.
We provide evidenced-based professional development for district and building leaders, leadership
teams, and teacher leaders grounded in Dr. Gabbadon’s book, Support and Retain Educators of Color.
Affinity Group Facilitation
Isolation is expensive.
When educators of color feel unseen and unsupported, they leave and student achievement, school culture, and institutional knowledge leave with them.
Affinity groups are one of the highest-leverage, lowest-cost investments a district can make in retention.
Affinity Group Facilitator Training
Culture change doesn’t happen in a single engagement; change happens when your own staff are equipped to lead the work from the inside.
We build your capacity through an evidenced-based curricula to ensure belonging and retention are built into your systems and last beyond our engagement.
Let's build something that works for your team.
If you're ready to strengthen leadership, support your staff, or invest in retention, the first step is a conversation. Send us a message and we'll follow up directly.