Your Trusted Partner in Gateway Course Redesign
We make scalable change possible for every institution with a hands-on approach that turns evidence-based strategies into real results.
The Principles That Guide The Work We Do
Our values are commitments to how we partner, deliver, and empower institutions. Every project we do reflects these beliefs, ensuring success for staff, faculty, and students.
Respectful Partnership
We respect your institution’s unique context and institutional knowledge, keeping your team central in every initiative. Our collaboration is supportive and temporary, with the goal of equipping you for sustainable success after our engagement ends.
Practical Solutions
Our strategies are grounded in real classroom effectiveness and tailored to your specific constraints. We leverage evidence-based approaches refined through extensive implementation experience across diverse institutions to create win-win outcomes that benefit all stakeholders.
Continuous Improvement
We embrace the ongoing nature of educational transformation: it is never done. Through data-driven iteration and consistent feedback integration, we build cultures of inquiry and accountability that sustain a cycle of progress.
Almy Education's Unique Approach to Gateway Success
We turn theory into action, guiding colleges from vision to measurable results. Here’s what makes our team, process, and partnership unlike any other in higher education consulting.
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Practitioner-Led Direction
As a leading provider with a team of specialized consultants that are current or former faculty, we bring deep expertise in both subject matter and change management. This enables us to offer clear, respectful direction as we guide institutions forward, honor faculty perspectives, and ensure progress through a trusted, collaborative partnership.
Hands-On Implementation Partnership
Unlike competitors who offer frameworks and advice from a distance, we deliver complete “done with you” support to manage every phase of change. We work side-by-side with your team on the finer aspects of implementation so your staff can focus on their core responsibilities while we move the work forward together.
Proven, Customizable Framework
Our proprietary framework—Gateway Success at Scale—guides each engagement. We fully customize strategies based on your institution’s context and capacity, leveraging a methodology refined through partnerships with over 100 colleges and universities to deliver sustainable, measurable results.
Action-Oriented, End-to-End Support
We take over where policy and convenings end, guiding transformation from initial planning all the way through successful execution. Our approach focuses on outcomes rather than activities. We ensure that institutional goals are translated into operational practices that measurably improve student outcomes at scale.
The Key to Gateway Success at Scale
Our proprietary framework targets the core pillars that drive lasting, institution-wide improvement: culture, systems, and classroom practices. This holistic model ensures every area critical to gateway courses is addressed for measurable, sustainable progress.
Culture
How faculty, staff, and administrators productively collaborate and make decisions
Systems
Policies, pathways, and supports students encounter before entering the classroom
Classroom
Learning practices and experiences that help students succeed in gateway courses
Meet the Team of Experts Behind Almy Education
Our diverse team brings deep subject matter knowledge and educational change management expertise to help your institution achieve sustainable student success.
Interested in joining the team? Apply here.
Gateway Success Starts Here
Almy Education is the only gateway course consultancy that combines proven methodology with hands-on 'done with you' implementation support, led by current and former faculty who understand both systemic change management and classroom realities.