Elevating Schools and Leaders

We provide educational leaders with the knowledge, expertise, and tools they will need to address challenges confidently and effectively and achieve successful outcomes for children.

Spire Leadership Group

OUR BELIEFS:  We believe in the ability of all students, educators and leaders to learn, grow, and achieve. We believe that students are best served in schools where educational leaders ensure equity and excellence.

OUR VISION FOR SCHOOLS AND LEADERS: We envision schools shaped by driven, responsive, and skilled leaders where students — regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or economic circumstances — are ideally situated to achieve their great promise and make significant progress toward fulfilling lives.

Spire’s approach to supporting schools and leaders is shaped by founder Tim Matheney’s book Leadership that Lasts. Informed by his three decades in K-12 education, the book identifies seven key actions for successful leaders who seek to make an enduring impact: Connect, Commit, Persevere, Thrive, Discover, Imagine and Dare.

How We Can Help

Building the Knowledge of Educators

Spire provides professional development on a variety of teaching, learning and leadership topics.

Supporting the Success of Educational Leaders

Spire supports superintendents, principals and other leaders as they foster high levels of achievement and pursue their most ambitious goals.

Strengthening Equity and Excellence

Spire assists leaders in ensuring that schools are characterized by equity and excellence.

What People Are Saying

  • Spire Leadership served as the project manager for our new Innovation Center. It has provided leadership, expertise and professionalism through providing intentional planning, meaningful professional development, and building the mission. Spire has leveraged its capacity to allow the project to not only progress, but to soar as it nears its completion. Our work with Spire Leadership has served our teachers and students well.

    James Meredith, Principal, Nazareth Academy High School

  • Tim Matheney's leadership is both informative and inspirational, both pragmatic and uplifting.

    Dr. Noah Tennant, Assistant Superintendent, School District of Philadelphia

On Leadership

Building Resilience in Our Children

As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, top infectious disease experts are warning Americans to steel themselves for a challenging spring.“We’re going to be seeing some serious things that the American public unfortunately is going to have to ge...

April 3, 2020

Reading List

Three books that influenced Leadership that Lasts

I read pretty broadly, and that’s reflected in my new book, Leadership that Lasts. In my book, you’ll read about leadership in sports, the military, the arts, and business. Below are three books that were particularly formative as I conceived of ...

January 5, 2018