
Aspire360 Learning Partners
Helping New York school districts strengthen teaching, learning, and leadership across four service areas.
About
Aspire360 Learning Partners is a boutique consulting firm helping New York school districts strengthen teaching, learning, and leadership — from the classroom to the boardroom. We work across four service areas: Instructional Design & Assessment, Educator & Leadership Development, NY Inspires Readiness & District Strategy, and Grant Programming & Compliance. Across all four, we help districts support the whole child — building student belonging, supportive school culture, and social-emotional growth into the work, aligned to New York State benchmarks. Founded by educators with decades of experience in New York public schools, Aspire360 pairs strategic vision with practitioner credibility. We are not a vendor delivering a program; we are partners building coherent, lasting systems alongside your team. Every engagement starts the same way: we define what success looks like with you, then build the plan to get there.
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Core Service Offerings
Four service areas where we help school districts build coherent, lasting systems.
Instructional Design & Assessment
Better ways to teach, grade, and measure what matters — project-based assessment, curriculum alignment, competency-based grading, and alternate assessments.
Educator & Leadership Development
Coaching and training that builds skill at every level — instructional coaching, custom workshops, SEL integration, and leadership coaching.
NY Inspires Readiness & District Strategy
Clear plans for the state's transformation of graduation requirements — readiness audits, Portrait of a Graduate implementation, and program evaluation.
Grant Programming & Compliance
Grant-funded programs that deliver — and prove it — through program design, independent evaluation, and grant-focused staff training.
Leadership
60+
Years Combined Experience
2
Founder Partners
100%
Practitioner-Led
NY
Schools & Districts Served

Dina Reilly
Founder & Executive Partner
Former Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction · Portrait of a Graduate · Competency-Based Learning
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Cari Lubliner, LCSW
Founder & Executive Partner
Clinical Social Worker · School Mental Health Leader · Trauma-Informed Practice · SEL Systems
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Aspire360 Learning Partners
Educational Consulting
New York's Portrait of a Graduate is redefining what it means to be ready — and the schools and districts that thrive will be the ones that turn the vision into systems. At Aspire360 Learning Partners, we help schools and districts do exactly that: adopt the Portrait locally, align curriculum and instruction, and build the alternate pathways — PBATs, CTE, and competency-based learning — that let every student demonstrate readiness on their own terms. We're a boutique firm led by practitioners with 60+ years of combined New York school and district experience. No off-the-shelf programs. Just coherent, sustainable systems built with your team. If you're a school or district leader thinking about Portrait adoption, performance-based assessment, or competency-based diplomas, let's start a conversation. #PortraitOfAGraduate #NYSED #K12Education #CompetencyBased #EducationLeadership #NewYorkSchools
Featured Case Study
West Hempstead Union Free School District
Every District Says Its Students Are Learning. This One Set Out to Prove It.
When New York began rewriting its graduation requirements around demonstrated proficiency, West Hempstead UFSD turned 'Return on Learning' from a phrase into a working system. This is the work Aspire360 co-founder Dina Reilly led firsthand as the district's then-Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction — and shared nationally when Sal Khan featured the district in a Khan Academy webinar.
- ▪18-month build from pilot to daily classroom use
- ▪Adoption across every grade level and content area
- ▪Instruction designed for demonstration, not recall
When we're investing in our children, we want to be able to demonstrate what they learned and how deep their knowledge goes.
Dina Reilly
then-Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction, West Hempstead UFSD
West Hempstead, New York · Nassau County
1,600 students · K–12
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