At Magnolia, one of our core values is cultivation. This means we create an environment where new ideas, opportunities, and innovation thrive, which benefits both our team and the clients [...]
All too regularly, we see a news headline that a school employee has engaged in sexual abuse or misconduct with students in a K–12 school. Often, an accused teacher [...]
At Magnolia Consulting, one of our specialities is designing and implementing curriculum efficacy or effectiveness studies, and we are often tasked with recruiting sites (i.e., schools or school districts) to [...]
Data cleaning is possibly the most critical step in running statistical analyses. A general rule of thumb is to spend 80% of your time cleaning data and the remaining 20% [...]
For this year’s annual staff retreat, the Magnolia Consulting team gathered at a beautiful lake house nestled along Lake Anna in Central Virginia. The theme of this year’s retreat was [...]
I recently came across an NPR article entitled “What Adult Learners Really Need (Hint: It’s Not Just Job Skills)” by Anya Kamenetz (2018). In the article, the author interviews David [...]
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) promotes the use of federal funds to purchase programs that have evidence of effectiveness in increasing student success. But how can state and local [...]
From September 2016 to January 2017, Magnolia Consulting conducted a study on the implementation of Title IX guidance in school districts that had experienced incidents of school employee sexual misconduct [...]
At Magnolia Consulting, we use icons in a variety of ways to illustrate key ideas and takeaways in our reporting. Icons provide a quick visual reference for readers of infographics [...]
Charlottesville, VA (Oct. 31, 2017) — An estimated one in ten K–12 students—about 4.5 million children—will experience sexual abuse at the hands of a school employee at some point in their education, [...]
