Helping Leaders In Education Breathe Easier
Through our partnerships with charter schools, public schools, and education-supporting organizations, we help increase capacity, reduce compliance risk, and deliver on their mission to serve students with excellence.
We Deeply Care About The Success of Educators and Students
We work alongside education leaders and organizations to solve the problems that keep them up at night. Like our partners, we believe that every student, regardless of background or learning need, deserves access to exceptional teaching and strong systems.
Whether the work is designing student support systems, leading a new academic initiative, mitigating compliance risk, coaching senior leadership, or strengthening the culture that holds everything else together, we bring the same depth, rigor, and commitment to every partnership.
We’re So Glad You Found Us
Whether you lead a school, run a district, or build the tools that support them — we're here for you.
Charter Schools
Public Schools & Districts
Education-Supporting Organizations
Organizations Already Doing the Work
We're proud to have partnered with schools, leaders, and organizations that show up every day, committed to doing right by their students, staff, and communities.
The Respire Difference: What True Partnership Means in Practice
Most outside support looks like this: someone comes in, delivers recommendations, and disappears. You're left holding a document and a to-do list with no one to help you execute it.
After over two decades working inside schools, we learned that we need to do things differently here if we want to make lasting changes. That’s why our engagements are fully customized, transparent from the very first conversation, and designed to build your team's capacity.
We stay through implementation. We learn your organization deeply. And we don't consider the job done until your team owns it completely.
"Lauren leads with empathy, creating an environment where people feel valued and understood. Her strategic mindset helped our team navigate priorities with purpose. She brings a visionary perspective that inspires others to think big and imagine new possibilities in education."
Eliza Gabriel
"In our partnership together, Lauren developed systems and structures to support growing programs and made significant changes that led to sustainable practices. Her experience and expertise in system design and strategic planning paved the pathway for better student services and outcomes."
Gini Sanders
She’s Spent 20 Years In Your Shoes.
Some of Them Were Very Uncomfortable.
Lauren Ellis began her career as a classroom teacher in traditional public schools before becoming a classroom teacher, special educator, principal, school founder, and senior network executive in charter networks.
She built Respire Education because she knows what it feels like to carry the weight of this important work alone, and because she believes every student deserves a leader who has the support to show up as their best, most effective selves.
