Synergistic Education Solutions is a resource designed to provide guidance
and professional development services for research, educational assessment and instructional
practices, and education policy in partnership with state departments of education, school
districts, individual schools, professional organizations, parent organizations, for-profit
education companies, and higher education entities. A primary focus of SES is to assist
educators and policy makers in translating the most current education and biobehavioral
research into educational practices and policies and to implement these practices and policies at
scale.
Consulting services are available to educational publishers and product developers, local, state, and federal education organizations, teachers, parents, and parent organizations, special educators, speech and language pathologists, psychologists, educational leaders, policymakers, and institutes of higher education.
Presentations and Professional Development Workshops
• The assessment, prevention, and remediation of reading difficulties and disabilities, disorders of attention, and cognitive disabilities
• The neurobiology of learning disabilities and dyslexia: implications for assessment and instruction
• Development and implementation of response-to-instruction initiatives
• Development and Implementation of Early Literacy Programs
• Essential Factors in the Implementation and Scaling of Educational Programs, Practices, and Initiatives
• Developing and Implementing Evidence-Based Educational Policies at State and Federal Levels
• Basing Educational Technologies on Current Scientific Research
Consultation Programs
• Development of Professional Development initiatives in early childhood education, literacy, and educational leadership at state, district and school levels
• Implementation and scaling of effective educational programs and practices
• Implementation of effective practices and procedures to ensure compliance with NCLB, Reading First, and IDEA
• Development of measurement and evidence-based accountability systems for educational publishers, product developers, at local and state education agencies
• Development and implementation of research models to evaluate the effectiveness of teacher preparation programs (Value-Added Models)
• Assistance to schools and departments of education in colleges and universities in preparing assessment and evaluation models essential to the development of conceptual frameworks, institutional reports, program proposals, and self-studies
• Assistance in the preparation of research and training grant proposals to federal agencies (U.S. Department of Education; NIH) and state education agencies
• Assistance to educational publishers and product developers in the development and integration of assessment and evidence-based instructional products
• Assistance to educational publishers and product developers in building strategies for implementation and scaling