Perspective and Success

Dr. Chris Jenson brings a unique perspective to health-related challenges in the educational space, offering insight as a former emergency medicine physician, CDC science ambassador, and classroom teacher. This serendipitous career path provides Diagnosing Education with the unique ability to examine complex health issues from multiple angles and then design practical action items that benefit the lives of students, staff, and district leadership. 

​Mission and Driving Force

The mission of Diagnosing Education is straight forward: ​Listen, understand, respect, and diagnose client needs in a thoughtful and efficient manner. Every client is unique. Each situation is different. As such, action items are customized to create the desired impact for those in need. To optimize this process, Dr. Jenson partners with clients in a manner that is additive, increasing the bandwidth of insight, skills, and energy needed to improve complex situations. 

"Listen to your patient. They are telling you the diagnosis."  
– Sir William Osler
Co-founder of Johns Hopkins Medical Center 
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Impact and Meaning

School districts, and businesses that work with schools, are at a formidable crossroads: A pervasive and persistent youth mental health crisis now intersects with deep seated burnout in staff. Educators desperately need help.

• Teacher Exhaustion and Career Burnout: Educator attrition rates are worsening – there's now a significant teaching shortages across the United States. However, there is an alternative – one that allows teachers and administrators to regain control of their workflow and stress. Workflow strategies from healthcare offer focused solutions to the overwhelming fatigue, anxiety, and exhaustion seen in the classroom. Order Triage Your School and join the districts that are rescuing their staff and improving teacher retention!

 

• School Mental Health Crisis: Schools districts have fallen into a youth mental health crisis that is often outside their scope of practice and expertise. That said, schools do need to be part of the community solution. Diagnosing Education is here to help. Explore data driven ideas that inspired an embedded curriculum, trialed in Colorado during 2024 and produced the following results: I) dramatic increase in student skill proficiency with 16 Colorado Essential Skills ii) a 43.7% relative risk reduction in students with abnormally low self-esteem ​iii) 100% staff retention rate for those involved in the implementation

 

• Educational Redesign: The technology explosion has changed how we educate and what employers look for in graduates. Learning agility, personal resilience, problem-solving, and various other skills are growing in importance. For many, classroom content now serves as a leverage point to teach and develop skills. Partner with Diagnosing Education to analyze and upgrade your operational pathways and procedures – improving skill application and performance after graduation at all levels.

Services Offered

Energy is best focused where experience, insight, and action can join together seamlessly and make the needed impact, benefitting all stakeholders in the process. Taking this concept to heart, Diagnosing Education, LLC invests time and energy into the following services:
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Education and Business Related:

• Focused Solution Design: Create, develop, and implement evidence-based action items – mitigating problems and promoting desired outcomes that can be measured over time. 
• Professional Learning: Provide discussions, case studies, small group experiences, and a wide bandwidth of engagement activities to connect with the audience, form an authentic rapport, and provide the understanding and skills requested.
• Keynote Presentations: Long history of serving as a sought after keynote presenter at conferences, leadership retreats, strategic planning sessions, and events that require a relevant content expert.
• Public Health Strategy: Offer insight, understanding, and pathways forward for schools and businesses struggling with community public health challenges. (ex: COVID-19, opioid crisis, vaping epidemic)  

Education Specific:

• Youth Mental Health Initiatives: Researched and authored an Amazon #1 Best Seller (multiple categories) regarding action items for schools and parents, allowing us to work together and improve the tragic mental health crisis in adolescents and young adults. 
• Teacher Exhaustion and Career Burnout: Explain, model, and help implement evidence-based strategies from healthcare to address the overwhelming fatigue, anxiety, and exhaustion 
• Educational Redesign: Assess, analyze, and upgrade and operational pathways and procedures within school districts to improve student and staff equity, inclusion, and performance.

​Let's spend our time and energy on the SOLUTIONS instead of consuming ourselves with the problem.