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PTL Officially Joins Forces with Leadership Innovations Team

Posted January 8th, 2009 in News

Happy New Year! We’re excited to tell you about a Big Change…

Dear Friends,

We’re writing today to share some exciting changes that are in store for the new year. As of January 1st, Powerful Teaching and Learning into Practice and The Leadership Innovations Team have joined forces and merge into one, unified company.

Moving forward into 2009 we will continue to provide all of our current customized professional development solutions and services but we will operate solely under the Leadership Innovations Team name.

This is a big change, and one that we have thought about for a long time, but we believe that bringing these two companies together will enable us to deliver even more powerful solutions to help K-12 educators everywhere improve, grow, and increase student achievement levels. We remain dedicated to continuing to focus on instruction, leadership, and coaching.

We’ve included more information about the change below and we encourage you to contact us with questions or concerns that you may have. There’s also an entire web page dedicated specifically to information about the transition.

As always, we thank you for your ongoing support and partnership. We look forward to many years of working together to build stronger leaders, better schools, happier educators, increased achievement, and a better future for our children.

Sincerely,

Alison Olzendam and Heather Knight, Co-Presidents
The Leadership Innovations Team

Why we’re making the change:

• It’s a natural progression. PTL and LIT have enjoyed a successful partnership over the past year, delivering award-winning leadership development programs in tandem with results-driven programs for educators at every level. In fact, we’ve worked so closely, bringing the two companies together under the same umbrella seems almost more natural to us than operating separately. Consolidation will also allow us to deliver an even more streamlined set of solutions.
• To reduce confusion and allow us to be more flexible. The term “powerful teaching and learning” is used in many areas of the education field and it has led to some confusion about our work and related associations. Our mission is to provide customized solutions for K12 educators – basically, we want to help you figure out exactly what your school or district needs to do to improve. We are not tied to any single protocol or process – so we have more flexibility to work with your unique situation. We want our name to reflect that.
• We truly believe that leadership is the difference. Here is what we’ve come to realize over the past three years: leadership is the thing that makes powerful teaching and learning as a practice really work. Everyone must be a leader from where they stand. And everyone must have a leadership mindset in order to facilitate growth and improvement. Without a strong leadership emphasis, even the best programs, protocols, and systems will fail.

How this will affect you:
Other than visiting us at a different website address and some cosmetic branding changes, this shouldn’t affect you at all. All normal business operations (including contracts, accounting, scheduling, phone numbers, addresses, etc) will remain exactly the same. Even our powerfulteaching.com email addresses will continue to work for the next few months (they’ll forward directly to our new leadershipinnovationsteam.com addresses).

If you’ve got a few questions
We know you might have some questions about this, so we’d like to encourage you to feel free to use the feedback form on the website to let us know what’s on your mind. We’ll get back to you and we’ll also incorporate everything into the FAQ page.