About Spring Educational Consulting
Educators and Students at the Center of Our Support
Meet Jana Schmidt
Over many years in education, we collaborated with superintendents, principals, and school staff to help students achieve their greatest potential. We have a great passion for helping children in their educational journey. That mission continues.
Spring Educational Consulting can align services to your current improvement plan. You may have short term goals, such as evaluating current literacy curriculum documents. You may have longer term goals, such as on-going support for teachers as they implement MTSS/RTI systems. Together we can review your current program and create action steps to move forward in your school improvement process.
Educators and students are at the center of what we do. All levels of an organization strive to support children in the best way possible. We are here to help design your path forward.
Through various aspects of education, Jana Schmidt has had the privilege of working with educators at a district, state, and national level. Jana currently supports districts from many different states with building knowledge of research-based educational practices and structuring literacy systems.
On a state level, Jana served as an associate director in the Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis department at the University of Missouri- Columbia. There, she worked to structure professional development and outreach efforts for superintendents, principals, teachers, and other educators throughout the state. Through the University of Missouri and at times in conjunction with Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, she served as an educational consultant providing interaction with national presenters, organizing state collaboratives, presenting school-based professional development, and facilitating school professional learning teams. The focus of these efforts included literacy, systems of support, response to intervention, work with standards and assessment, and development of school leaders.
At a district level, Jana served as a language arts coordinator for kindergarten through eighth grade. At the beginning of her career, Jana was a grade level classroom teacher, and taught reading classes. Jana’s career spans over thirty years in support of students and educators.
Jana’s educational path includes a B.S.Ed in Elementary Education, MEd in Reading Education, and an EdS in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.