Bill Slotnik is the founder and chief executive officer of Slotnik Leadership Partners. He and the SLP resource team provide executive counsel and capacity building assistance to leaders of public institutions, non-profit organizations, and private sector philanthropies in the United States and Central and Eastern Europe. He also mentors both experienced and emerging leaders.
As founder and long-term Chief Executive Officer of the Community Training and Assistance Center (CTAC), Bill previously oversaw the growth of CTAC into the pioneering provider of technical assistance, evaluation services, and policy support in the fields of education and community development.
SLP draws directly on this 40+ year track record of accomplishment.
Our expertise is
Growing Leaders and Organizational Capacity
Growing Leaders and Organizational Capacity
Growing Leaders and Organizational Capacity
Turning Evidence Into Action
Growing Leaders and Organizational Capacity
Growing Leaders and Organizational Capacity
Driving Policy Responsiveness
Growing Leaders and Organizational Capacity
Driving Policy Responsiveness
Growing Leaders and Organizational Capacity
Bill and the SLP resource team support executive leaders and lead successful capacity building initiatives. These initiatives help leaders to navigate complexity and catalyze innovation in such areas as:
- Systemic school reform
- Educator recruitment, development, and retention
- Teacher and leader pipelines
- Compensation systems
- State-to-district initiatives
- PreK–12 STEM
- School and district turnaround
- Educator evaluation systems
- PreK–8 transformations
- Collective bargaining agreements
Turning Evidence Into Action
Serving as both a thought partner and strategic evaluator, SLP helps executive leaders link research and evaluation (what works) to practice and policy (what needs to improve).
As examples, Bill served as lead author of the first comprehensive, longitudinal evaluations of the impact of:
- Performance-based compensation on student achievement and teacher quality. The result: launching the compensation reform movement nationally.
- State-to-district interventions on student achievement and system performance. The result: providing a model framework for state interventions.
- Professional development on student achievement and district finances. The result: introducing and demonstrating the impact of professional development audits to districts.
By conducting key studies and evaluations of cutting edge issues, Bill helps inform the efforts of executive leaders to significantly improve:
- Systems for recruitment, development, and retention
- Advanced teacher leadership pipelines
- Instructional leadership teams
- Human capital management systems
- Hard-to-staff schools
- Continuous improvement frameworks
Driving Policy Responsiveness
Bill helps leaders come together, collaborate, and advance policies that make a difference for students and educators. Examples include:
- At the local level: developing and gaining approval for landmark union-management collective bargaining agreements that markedly improve compensation and evaluation systems.
- At the state level: supporting the most successful state system for principal leadership development and retention in the country.
- At the federal level: helping to spearhead Congressional passage of the Teacher Incentive Program and Teacher and School Leader Incentive Program.
- At multiple levels: providing, and engaging organizational leaders in delivering, briefings to members of the U.S. Congress, federal departments, state legislatures and departments of education, and the media.