Your school deserves a leader who is equipped, confident, and ready. Whether you’re a first-year principal finding your footing or an experienced administrator navigating new challenges, JFord Equips is here to help. Dr. Jeanne C. Ford brings over three decades in education — from classroom teacher to the superintendent’s office — backed by Maxwell Leadership to provide:
Serving schools and districts throughout Arkansas and nationwide.
#1 Amazon Bestseller in School Management — The Principal’s Leadership Journey: Conquer Challenges, Inspire Others, Transform Schools is the go-to guide for new and experienced principals. Twenty chapters of practical school leadership wisdom, integrating John C. Maxwell’s proven principles with Key Takeaways, Reflections, and Action Steps in every chapter. Available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, and Kindle.
Understanding how you and your team communicate changes everything. The Maxwell Leadership DISC assessment reveals individual communication styles, helping school leaders reduce conflict, strengthen collaboration, and build a more cohesive team. This is one of the most powerful tools available for school and district leadership teams.
Personalized one-on-one coaching gives school leaders the clarity, confidence, and strategies needed to navigate today’s complex educational challenges. Executive coaching sessions address real situations — personnel decisions, school culture, staff relationships, and leadership effectiveness.
Feedback is one of the most powerful leadership tools a principal possesses. Learn practical strategies for delivering feedback that builds trust, encourages growth, and improves performance across your entire school.
Being a great teacher doesn’t automatically make someone a great mentor. Schools often select their best teachers to mentor newcomers — then send them in with no training or tools. JFord Equips provides practical mentor training that equips these leaders-in-the-making with the skills, structures, and strategies needed to effectively support and develop new teachers from day one.
When teachers struggle with classroom management, everyone suffers — students, staff, and school culture. Our classroom management training equips educators with evidence-based strategies to prevent disruptions, engage every learner, and reclaim valuable instructional time.
Engaged students learn more, behave better, and achieve higher. JFord Equips provides evidence-based strategies that help teachers connect with students, increase participation, and create classroom environments where every student wants to succeed.
When students are given real leadership opportunities, school culture transforms. Our student leadership programs equip students with skills, confidence, and a meaningful role in shaping their school community.
The Maxwell Method of Leadership
The Maxwell Method is our proven system for helping you develop your skills for professional advancement.
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With over three decades in education — from classroom teacher to principal to assistant superintendent — Jeanne has served districts ranging from 300 to 25,000 students. She earned her doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Arkansas and has combined her deep school-level experience with Maxwell Leadership training to help school leaders build the skills that transform schools.
Jeanne is the author of The Principal’s Leadership Journey and an Executive Director with Maxwell Leadership – certified to facilitate, speak, train, and coach leaders and teams.
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Reduce your office referrals; increase your scores
The success of Time To Teach has been published in Leadership magazine. Read Order in the Classroom, a published article written by Kelly Graham, National Director at the Center for Teacher Effectiveness and Elsbeth Prigmore, high school principal. Time To Teach is a consistent classroom management system that saves instructional time and improves school climate.
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“During my first two years as principal of Clark Street Elementary School, we experienced over 300 office referrals and over 150 out-of-school suspensions! This year we implemented Rick’s strategies and so far we have only had two office referrals in six weeks!”
John Hargrove, Principal, Clark Street Elementary, North Carolina
“Lawton Public Schools is a lower socioeconomic school district in Oklahoma that services 17,000 Pre-K through 12th grade students, over half of which are minority. Twenty-nine of our thirty-five schools were trained using the Time To Teach strategies, affecting more than 11,000 children. Following training, we experienced a 16% decrease in suspensions and office referrals and a dramatic decrease in pupil enrollment for Behavior Intervention and Behavior Disorder classes. We have also seen a 9% increase in test scores and none of our schools are on the school improvement list for No Child Left Behind.”
Billy Davis, Executive Director Elementary Education, Lawton Public Schools, Oklahoma
“We have used the Time To Teach strategies for eighteen years! These strategies allowed me to get into the classrooms and help teachers instead of having to deal with a line of students awaiting discipline intervention. Time To Teach truly delivers on its promise to gain back valuable teaching time that is so often lost to matters of discipline.”
Lynette Hedden, Retired Principal, Richland, Washington
“The number of student referrals in our middle school has dropped 30% on average, every year over the past three years. It is because of Time to Teach that I can say with pride, “Every day I teach!”
Keith Johnson, Teacher/Technology Director, Reading Community Schools, Michigan
“I have seen some of my students move up from Special Education and Title Programs to achieve at grade level performance. My referrals have been eliminated. Students that were never able to do so before are now meeting benchmark standards and making dramatic gains in reading and writing fluency. After 19 years as an educator, I finally have Time To Teach with care and compassion.”
Libba Sager, Elementary Teacher, Toledo Elementary, Oregon
“I have seen a 15 point gain in math and science scores on the state standardized test, which helped our school meet its AYP/API, and I have not sent a single student to the office all year. Time To Teach has helped me successfully teach second language learners, children with ADD, ADHD, Tourettes, learning disabilities, disenfranchised youth, and impoverished students.”
James Turner, Middle School Teacher, Lompoc, California
“At Lompoc Valley Middle School, the referral numbers for class disruption were reduced by 62% using Time to Teach strategies, and Lompoc High School’s referral numbers were lower than those of the rival high school for the first time ever.”
Carrie Chase, High School Counselor, Lahainaluna High School, Hawaii
“Pioneer Continuation High School has our district’s highest number of at-risk 11th and 12th grade students. Using the Time to Teach blueprint, we saw school suspensions drop from 39% to 18% over a three-year period, in-house suspensions cut in half, and significant increases in passing rates on the California High School Exit Exam and other student achievement measures. Overall, the school has experienced a positive, systemic cultural change.”
Elsbeth Prigmore, Principal, Pioneer Continuation High School, California
