Driving Systemwide Progress in Education
Education systems are evolving fast—and success depends on knowing what works and ability to scale effective solutions. We help leaders turn insights into systemwide progress.
About our Education Practice
Schools everywhere are under pressure to do more—close learning gaps, modernize curriculum, connect classrooms to careers—often with limited resources and rising expectations.
We help education leaders meet these challenges not just with good plans, but with the capacity to deliver. Our work focuses on bridging the gap between policy and implementation—ensuring reforms lead to real improvements in schools, classrooms, and student outcomes.
Whether you're launching a national early learning initiative or improving accountability systems, we provide practical support to turn ideas into action—and ensure those actions reach every learner.
How we can help
We support education leaders across every stage of the delivery journey—translating vision into results, even in complex and evolving systems.
Set Clear Priorities
We help sharpen system-wide strategies—from boosting foundational skills to rethinking school-to-work transitions—and align teams around shared goals.
Design Programs That Work
From career pathways to learning recovery, we help develop initiatives that respond to local needs and deliver real-world results.
Deliver at Scale
Our teams embed within teams and departments to strengthen implementation, solve problems in real time, and build long-term capacity.
Track Progress and Improve as You Go
We create tools to track student learning, monitor school- and system-level outcomes, and turn data into decisions—so you can adapt quickly and communicate impact with confidence.
Featured articles
Insights from the field
Pernambuco's Priorities: Three Ways Delivery Units are Driving Impact
Pernambuco, Brazil, has ambitious goals across health, the environment, and education. Discover how they’re using Delivery Units, with support from DA, to improve citizens' lives.
Why Bridging Federal Funding to Underserved Communities is so Important
...And how the Community Funding Accelerator is doing just that in Poplar Bluff, MO.
About us
DA is a global social impact consultancy guiding leaders through every phase of implementation—strategy formulation, execution, and evaluation. We partner with governments, philanthropies, and international organizations, employing actionable strategies to achieve sustainable, lasting outcomes.
Let’s work together to make change happen.
