About Fiedeldey Consulting

Fiedeldey Consulting LLC helps schools move from reacting to problems to building systems that prevent them. We partner with school districts, educational leaders, educators, families, attorneys, and agencies to strengthen student learning, mental health, special education, school safety, and organizational effectiveness.

Founder Steven Fiedeldey is a New Jersey educational leader, consultant, and restorative practitioner with nearly two decades of experience in public education and higher education. He has served as a principal, district-level Director of Special Services, school psychologist, and interim administrator. Since 2007, he has also taught psychology at Montclair State University.

Steve’s work sits at the intersection of leadership, systems thinking, student support, and legally defensible practice. He has designed and led districtwide initiatives involving special education, MTSS, universal mental health screening, suicide prevention, crisis response, school safety, restorative practices, early literacy, and family engagement. His work has produced measurable improvements in crisis response, restrictive placements, student outcomes, and district systems.

A central focus of Steve’s work is helping leaders examine the systems behind recurring problems. His doctoral studies in Educational Leadership explore systems thinking and organizational learning, including how decision rules, information flows, feedback loops, capacity, and underlying assumptions shape outcomes.

Steve holds degrees in Psychology, Educational Psychology, Educational Leadership, and Restorative Practices and is currently completing an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. He holds New Jersey certifications as a school psychologist, supervisor, principal, school business administrator, and chief school administrator.

Through Fiedeldey Consulting LLC, Steve provides professional learning and consultation in special education, mental health and crisis prevention, restorative practices, school safety, artificial intelligence, MTSS, and educational leadership.

Relationships first. Systems second. Children at the center.