Deo Mwano Consultancy works with public and private K-12 schools, universities/colleges, virtual schools online and hybrid. DMC has worked with numerous educational institutions, helping to design student success strategies for adoption into learning model, curriculum and social environment culture. The result: effective learning. DMC services help education organizations positively transform how they engage with their students, faculty and administrators.

DMC provides services that help organizations design and implement:

• Better tracking models for student engagement

• Teacher and student accountability models

• Re-engage students, at risk of dropping out, by offering services involving things they are passionate about in order to ignite their will to learn

• Learning models that integrate soft skills into the learning objectives

• Student-centered engagement through learning competencies, which help remove the negative stigma teachers have toward personal learning and project-based pedagogy

• Learning models that minority students can better identify and increase learning engagement.

Schools DMC Has Worked With:

Saint Anselm College, Penn State University, Clark University, Manchester School of Technology, West High School EL Department, Yale University, Virtual Learning Academy, NH Department of Education - Title III Department, Indiana University, Nicolet College, HOBY NH, University of New England, UNC Nursing Program CBE, Phillips Exeter Academy, Southern New Hampshire University, Kepler University, Kepler University, Vocatio, E3 Teen Father program, New England College.

Why?

The process of learning has changed substantially over time. But most educational institutions -- stuck in old ways that limit their students’ abilities -- are failing to keep up. Institutions have a hard time letting go of the past. Our current education model was designed for a different generation. It promoted a single-minded way to acquire and demonstrate knowledge. But one size does not fit all. Students today must be encouraged to discover the learning approach that best suits them. The secret sauce is focusing on the Being, not just on the Doing. What drives students’ success is already alive inside them. It simply needs to be recognized and nourished. Build relationships with your students and empower them internally and you will start seeing positive results. Provide them with the tools they need to learn authentically and they can then take ownership of their learning success. In short, put them in the driver’s seat and they will take control.

Unique Approach

Provide student-centric tools to help teachers drive successful personalized learning. Train educators regarding the successful learning cycle. Give them the tools to identify where students are mentally and academically in order to provide the right resources at the right time and, thus, elevate learning engagement and commitment.

Help educators view students holistically by providing tools that ignite them to take ownership of learning by focusing on the “Being” and not just the “Doing.” Provide tools to educators that help students embrace and normalize learning challenges.

What is it?

Provide educators with tools to drive learning success. Easy-to-use tools that positively impact learning outcomes by equipping educators with strategies to become experts of their students’ learning influences and motivations. The tools are delivered by Deo through customized workshops, training sessions and keynote presentations in collaboration with institutions and organizations.

Education Experiences

University

Deo has worked at Southern New Hampshire University, building innovative competency-based learning programs for adult learners through employer and community partnerships. He contributed to increasing the scale of the program from 250 students to over 5,000. This experience expanded his ability to develop solutions around the complex issues that prevent organization from moving forward.

Ed-Tech

Deo has also worked for Motivitis, an edTech company, engaging with K-12 schools and universities nationally that were looking to move to competency-based education. Some of his work entailed evaluating learning models the schools used in order to help them integrate those models into a technology platform.

Program Design

Deo worked as a coach and Manager of Partnership and Design for the E3 Teen Father program through the New Hampshire Department of Education. The program focused on helping the teen father graduate from school, gain employment and learn fatherhood competencies through individual personalize success plans. Deo helped design the implementation portion of the program through a partnership with the National Center of Competency Based Learning.

Deo Mwano is the director of I Am My Own Champion (IAMOC), a program he created through a K-12 after school program BringIt in partnership with The Extended Learning Opportunity Coordinators of The Manchester School District. IAMOC is a program that helps high school students develop and grow learning skills and habits based on how they learn best. It helps students identify how they learn best and then educates and coaches them on how to implement and maintain successful learning skills and habits.