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Winning Schools Educational Consulting

WSEC’s goal is to support all students, families, teachers, administrators, schools, and districts to build dream schools where every student and teacher can achieve the best educational outcome through compelling and enthralling coaching, training, and leadership.

We are an educational consulting firm located in Providence, Rhode Island dedicated to improving the teaching and learning context for all students, educators, schools, and districts. We can provide your school or district with full-day onsite, half-day onsite, or online training, accountability data coaching, strategic planning, school improvement planning, project implementation, family engagement, or professional learning communities (PLC’s) tailored to your objectives. We address problems you are confronting, whether you’re attempting to improve climate and culture, classroom management, or student learning outcomes, and find realistic solutions to meet specific needs aligned to the student-learning outcomes, or particular issues at hand. We are here to help you achieve your goals and move your students and teachers forward.

Michael L. Werth

Renee A. Duffaut

Michael L. Werth

Michael Werth has 36 years’ experience as an entrepreneur, 33 years’ experience as a martial artist (Aikido), and 23 years’ experience as an urban educational leader, an urban public mathematics and computer educator, and school-wide data coach.

Mr. Werth currently is pursuing his Doctorate at JWU while consulting part time as well as volunteer teaching mathematics at the high school level.

Mr. Werth is currently certified as a Rhode Island Department of Education Superintendent of Schools; District Level Administrator – Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment; Building Level Administrator; and as a Secondary Mathematics Teacher.

Mr. Werth originally graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1989 with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and a Minor in Music, from Providence College in 2022 with a M.Ed. in School Leadership, and he will graduate from Johnson & Wales University in 2025 with an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership at the completion of his doctoral dissertation defense.

Additionally, Mr. Werth is a 4th-degree black belt in Aikido, a Japanese martial art of self defense, as well as a certified senior teacher of Aikido (teaching rank: Shidoin) through Birankai North America and the Aikikai Foundation Hombu Dojo in Japan.

A message from Michael…

As Founder & President of Winning Schools Educational Consulting (WSEC), I am a life-long educator working to help other educators such as teachers, school leaders, and district leaders. Please feel free to schedule a free half-hour consultation to articulate what you are looking for, or simply to have a thought partner to run an idea by. If you want to start a PLC, pilot a new program, or run a professional-development seminar for your district staff, and you need an outstanding, dynamic, and experienced leader, then please reach out via txtmsg at 1-401-345-9202 or by email to michael.l.werth@gmail.com and we will make it happen!