About Innovative Results DC
Innovative Results DC, LLC (IRDC) is a full-service education consulting company that offers strategic management, instructional and leadership coaching, and school turnaround solutions to educational leaders, schools and communities.
IRDC and its partners provide a unique set of services designed to support both experts in the field of education and new educators and groups looking to start educational programming, from start-up charter schools, to innovative programs in public schools, non-profit organizations, and other institutions.
The IRDC Team provides academic, compliance, professional development, operations and management services designed to build a school’s or district’s capacity to maximize the educational opportunities they provide students. With decades of experience working in or experts supporting schools, every member of the IRDC Team is personally invested in the success of educators, schools and communities across the country.
Working collaboratively with school administrators, staff, and families, the IRDC uses research, data, and experience to support school climate and operations, academic programming, and student performance.
School leaders receive standards-based planning support to develop strategies for the effective use of data to inform instruction, maximize student performance on standardized assessments, and strategic planning for the long-terms sustainability of a school.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the IRDC Team is focused on innovation, motivated by professional collaboration, and armed with decades of collective experience. The Team’s holistic approach to school improvement includes: compliance with federal, state and local regulations, assessment, data analysis, curriculum and instruction, and teacher quality.
About the Founder
Entering the University of Missouri as a first-generation college student, Carolyn Trice, the founder of Innovative Results DC, LLC became a business major seeking opportunities beyond those traditionally afforded to young people in the segregated city of St. Louis, Missouri. After working as a community organizer with students living in the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects, Ms. Trice would go on to change her major to education.
Ms. Trice’s more than 30 years of experience in K-12 education has ranged across the educational spectrum: from teacher, school administrator, and education policy analyst, to performance officer and accountability specialist for a nationally-recognized charter school authorizer, and mom. Her career responsibilities have also included teacher and student assessment, special education policy, teacher mentoring, and director of various programs in school districts, education organizations, and a university.
Ms. Trice has a B.A. in education from the University of Missouri, an M.A. in educational psychology from Washington University in St. Louis, and I have completed the coursework towards a Ph. D in educational psychology from Temple University.