Education First Consulting welcomed Tran Keys as its newest Senior Consultant specializing in evaluation, continuous improvement, assessment, accountability systems, and facilitation.

We know that making progress in public education is hard. We also know it’s possible–because we’ve made it happen. Education First exists to help education funders and system leaders turn innovation into impact for educators and students, especially those furthest from opportunity. For more than 20 years, we’ve built coherence, capacity and trust with our partners to advance their ideas, investments and policies. Insight and ideas are essential, but they are not enough. We understand the opportunities and obstacles that grantmakers and education leaders navigate daily. We create vetted solutions that can survive leadership transitions, funding cycles and political shifts. Our approach is different from other consultants. We build our clients’ capacity to solve the most-pressing challenges in public education. Our team are education experts who blend superior analysis, project management and facilitation to develop strategies that create clarity and coherence out of complexity. As a result, the solutions we co-design are usable, durable and owned by those who must carry them forward.