Inspiring Impactful Change
Elevate your leadership and instructional practices with our expert coaching and professional learning services for educational systems and the professional organizations that support them.
Veritas Educational Consulting (VEC) is led by Dr. Steve Underwood and offers high-impact leadership coaching and professional learning for school systems and the external professional services organizations that support them.
Dr. Underwood has extensive leadership and consulting experience supporting schools, districts, state education agencies, and directing successful professional services teams in both the non-profit and for-profit education services industry. Drawing on this experience, VEC specializes in empowering others to provide strategic leadership, build highly effective and collaborative teams, develop impactful measurement of professional learning, and wisely allocate resources. VEC also delivers professional learning on topics such as the science of reading, school improvement, data-informed decision-making, program evaluation, and meeting the diverse needs of all learners.
With proven success in leading consulting and professional learning projects in rural and urban settings across the world, VEC partners with anyone with the shared mission of improving teaching, learning, and leading so that students obtain the best education possible.
VEC has a history of successful coaching, consulting, and professional services contracts at every level of the education system, and we are eager to support all leaders across the entire education sector who are driven to improve their work and their impact.
Dr. Steve Underwood
Founder &
Executive Learning Partner
Partner Testimonials
The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development (DEED) worked with Steve Underwood on the implementation of a professional development series on assessment literacy. Underwood brought a high level of expertise, project management skill, and professionalism to his work for DEED.
Kelly Manning
Deputy Director, Innovation and Education Excellence
Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
When it came to teaching foundational literacy skills, our teachers were in the same boat, but were rowing different directions. We had a research based curricular resource, but our staff didn't always "trust" the routines that were suggested by the resource. Steve helped us put together a team of "literacy leaders" that worked together to analyze data and to determine areas of strength and weakness amongst students. Steve worked with these teachers to develop a set of instructional routines that are research based and could be used regardless of the adopted curricular resource. In addition, Steve created instructional videos for teachers to "teach" them the correct way to execute the instructional routines.
Janet L. Avery, EdS
Superintendent
Potlatch School District #285