Concentricity: The Blueprint for Student Support Services
“The system isn’t broken. It’s built to oppress. Center students, and schools become engines of liberation.”
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American education isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as designed. In Concentricity: The Blueprint for Student Support Services, Dr. David L. Heiber exposes how bureaucracy was built to marginalize and offers a radical framework that centers students instead of compliance.
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Grounded in the intellectual legacies of Molefi Kete Asante’s Afrocentricity and Na’im Akbar’s psychology of liberation, Heiber introduces the Concentricity Framework, a model that redefines schools as launchpads for equity and freedom. With Professional Student Advocates at the core, schools have documented higher grades, stronger engagement, and up to a 40 percent drop in disciplinary referrals for Black boys.
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"We must stop using data as a hammer to punish and start using it as a flashlight to reveal opportunity."
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Organized into six transformative parts, Concentricity moves readers from compliance to connection and from reform to liberation. Concentricity begins now!
David Heiber
David L. Heiber, Ed.D., is Chief Executive Officer of Redemption Social Solutions and Founder of Concentric Holdings Incorporated, the parent company of Concentric Educational Solutions, Concentric Wholeness Solutions, and Concentric Ed Tech. Since 2010, he has built Concentric into a nationally recognized leader in student support, partnering with over 250 schools, 100 districts, and 15 states to transform education through mentoring, tutoring, mental health services, and more than 150,000 home visits. Under his leadership, Concentric secured a $10 million Series A investment from New Markets Venture Partners to scale its impact in student engagement, achievement, and Ed Tech innovation.
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Dr. Heiber’s strategic vision has positioned Concentric as a trusted partner for urban districts nationwide and an innovator in real-time services to students. Recognized by Forbes, The New Yorker, and as a 2024 “Black Marylander to Watch,” he is currently writing his memoir, From Prisoner to Principal: Only God Can Judge Me, and is a proud father of five.
