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About The Right Path

A practice built for the road ahead.

The Right Path Educational Consulting guides districts through organizational change for the age of intelligence: board policy, leadership alignment, and the classroom culture that follows. Multi-year work, not a one-time PD.

How we work

Change that outlives
the contract.

Every engagement begins with the people who hold the authority to make change stick: the board, the superintendent, the cabinet. From there the work moves outward through principals, teachers, and students, in that order and at that pace.

We build internal capacity as we go. By the final year the district is running the work itself, which was always the point.

A small strategy working session around a table
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Owner & Principal · Districts, Policy & Workforce

Dr. William Gideon

Ed.D. Educational Leadership, University of Southern California

Owner and principal consultant of The Right Path. Former interim superintendent with an engineering background. District-level organizational change, California policy, and the career-technical pathways that connect school systems to the future of work. Every engagement begins and ends at his table.

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Collaborators · Doc Martins

Dr. Marie Martin & Dr. Charles Martin

Ed.D. Educational Leadership, University of Southern California · Ed.D. Educational Technology, University of Florida

The Right Path collaborates with Doc Martins, the instructional design consultancy of Dr. Marie Martin and Dr. Charles Martin, for learning design and technical knowledge across engagements.

More about us at doc-martins.com

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No pitch deck. A working session about where your district actually is.

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