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Services We Offer

We offer a number of services for you to use the technology of
Practice-Based Inquiry® to your best benefit.

Pracitice-Based InquiryPractice-Based Inquiry® SERVICES
These services are tailored for you to ensure that your organization receives the maximum benefits from Practice-Based Inquiry.

  • Conducting school visits   more »
  • Designing new Practice-Based Inquiry protocols   more »
  • Strengthening the rigor in existing visit protocols   more »
  • Program and policy evaluation   more »
  • Establishing a Practice-Based Inquiry large scale accountability and support system   more »


Catalpa SERVICES
In addition, Catalpa Ltd. offers these services:

  • Education and advocacy   more »
  • Certification and endorsement   more »
  • Certifying Protocols   more »
  • Certifying team chairs   more »
  • Endorsing Practice-Based Inquiry reports   more »
  • Training chairs and team members   more »
  • International Network of information and advocacy   more »
  • Public speaking and workshop presentations   more »
  • Licensing Practice-Based Inquiry Centers   more »

To learn more about how Catalpa's services can benefit you and your organization, click here.

"To make the world better we must act better. That starts by how we think about and judge the world. We must know what we see rather than just see what we know. We must judge it based on what we can agree we know, rather than on what our ideologies say. Then, we can better connect our knowledge to what we do, so what we do works and is good for the world and for us."

--Thomas A. Wilson, Catalpa Principal Partner

Catalpa offers a set of services that will make it possible for you to gain the advantages of Practice-Based Inquiry in the work of your organization. They include:

  • Do you want to focus on understanding how to improve professional practice?

  • Do you want your school (or organization) to perform better?

  • Are you tired of the shallowness of being driven by data instead of knowledge?

  • Do you want professional judgment to become more important in determining what counts?

    Practice-Based Inquiry offers new and exciting possibilities for your school or professional service organization to learn about how well you are providing professional service. Through 14 years of research and field testing, Catalpa Ltd. has built and tested this rigorous, state of the art methodology for conducting team inquiry visits.

    Click here to learn about what makes PBI work. Learn about Practice-Based Inquiry’s dynamic definition of evidence and the critical roles for professional judgment and deliberated consensus. See how Catalpa’s carefully designed legitimacy procedures assure the rigor and certainty of research findings.

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