Transforming School Leadership Through Positive Relationships
The Mission of Bright Future Educational Consulting is to coach school leaders to build positive relationships, communicate clearly, and design innovative educational systems focused on the learning, engagement, and well-being of students, staff, parents, and community members.
Bright Future Educational Consulting Values
- Confidentiality - Bright Future Educational Consulting is confidential, sharing no client information without their knowledge and consent.
- Collaboration - Bright Future Educational Consulting collaborates with empathy to understand the client’s context and individual, team, and organizational needs.
- Reliability - Bright Future Educational Consulting does what it says it will do.
- Clarity - Bright Future Educational Consulting communicates directly and transparently with clients, providing clear expectations for growth and development as an individual, team, and organization.
- Courage - Bright Future Educational Consulting is courageous in developing authentic, confident leaders who serve the organization with trust, hope, stability, and compassion.
- Commitment - Bright Future Educational Consulting is committed to improving and designing academically rigorous and engaging schools focused on stakeholders' learning, engagement, and well-being.
Our Founder
Blane McCann earned a doctorate in Educational Policy and Leadership at Marquette University. He was a school administrator for 33 years. He collaborated with the Accelerated Schools Project, initially located at Stanford University and now hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University. Furthermore, he works with the Renzulli Center for Creativity, Gifted Education, and Talent Development at the University of Connecticut. Blane is the coauthor of When They Already Know It: How to Extend and Personalize Learning in a PLC@Work. He is an associate with Solution Tree Publishing, helping schools personalize learning in a PLC. Blane was superintendent in Shorewood, Wisconsin; Westside Community Schools, Omaha, Nebraska, and Piper USD 203, Kansas City, Kansas.
Blane is a certified Gallup CliftonStrengths coach. He coaches principals, superintendents, and board members throughout the Midwest. As a consultant, he focuses on building upon the strengths of staff, and community members to support students. Blane collaborates with school leaders, building cultures of student and staff growth and development while empowering teams to perform at high levels. He consults with school boards and superintendents on the topic of board governance, focusing on student achievement while developing the critical board-superintendent relationship. Blane counsels school districts as they implement personalized learning to increase student efficacy, learning, engagement, and well-being.
Blane’s recent clients include the Nebraska State Board of Education; Jefferson Elementary School, Janesville School District, Janesville, Wisconsin; Little Elm ISD, Little Elm, Texas; New Prairie School Corporation, New Carlisle, Indiana; Ralston School District, Ralston, Nebraska; Spradley Elementary School, Prosper, ISD, Prosper Texas; and the Nebraska Educational Technology Association