Why hire a consultant for schooling transitions?
No one knows your family’s hopes, values, and constraints like you do — but navigating schools, testing, applications, or conflict doesn’t have to be a solo mission. With a consultant, you get clarity, competent guidance, and dedicated support.
Why DIY vs. Consultant-Supported
Hiring a member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA) ensures that you will work with a professional with proven expertise and connects you to a network of experienced colleagues worldwide. Independent educational consultants (IECs) who are members of IECA are fully vetted and demonstrate the highest standards in education, training, ethics, and experience.
What a Consultant Does — From Start to Finish
Listen & Clarify — We begin with your values, concerns, and goals.
Map & Strategize — I design a step-by-step plan with timelines, benchmarks, and options.
Research & Vet — I dig into school data, culture, outcomes, and fit criteria.
Guide Applications & Essays — From topic selection through final edits.
Advise on Aid & Offers — I help you decipher costs and negotiation strategy.
Advocate & Troubleshoot — When challenges arise, I’m your liaison, coach, and problem solver.
Review & Adjust — We revisit progress, pivot if needed, and keep you on track.
Brynnen has walked this path — not just as an educator, but as a parent who spent weekends touring schools, meeting with faculty, enduring the same uncertainties you face now. She’s worked in Seattle-area PreK–12 settings, served as a professor, and navigated her own children’s school transitions.
Her knowledge is both institutional and lived. With over 30 years in education — in teaching, leadership, research, and community work — she combines systemic insight with deep empathy.
Ready to Get Support?
Choosing school, switching midyear, applying to college — these are big decisions. You don’t have to do it alone.