Excerpt from Letter of Commendation, Director of State-Level Education Agency:

“Unlike much of the standard professional development offerings that exist for educators, InformEd did more than simply provide information on a new program or approach. Rather, the feedback from staff and teachers indicates that as a result of your training, they feel better equipped to use data to understand student needs, target their efforts to support learning in those areas, and work collaboratively to implement and evaluate changes.

Much like strategic consultants in the private sector, InformEd provided a service that enhanced the overall capacity of our educators to impact student learning through a variety of ongoing, hands-on professional development support efforts. Moreover, your formative and summative evaluation reports provided critical information to support staff at our…office. It has made a tremendous impact in the way we think and approach our jobs as educators.”

More comments:

• The information is crucial on accountability.

• It is empowering.

• Great staff, good sense of humor.  Great balance with hands-on activities.

• All the presenters are extremely knowledgeable, can articulate it in a simple and informative / meaningful way.

• I sincerely appreciate your (1) good heart for kids/education, (2) depth of knowledge, (3) experience you bring, (4) humor and style, (5) strength and courage, (6) sensitivity to all the schools' concerns, (7) your helpfulneess - making us understand we are not along - all your technical support.

• All stakeholders need to know this information.

• I was impressed by the presenters - especially how they adopted to our specific needs.  They were very solid, conceptually.

• This has been a great experience for my staff.  They feel very confident in the efforts we are making for student achievement.  It's invigorating for me - finally progress!!

• This was absolutely essential!  Appreciated your energy, enthusiasm and patience with us all.  Thanks.

• I have learned so much with collecting data, implementing strategies, stating realistic goals, and showing/interpreting results on what documentation was collected.  Consultant worked very well with my staff, parents, and [in] providing such positive encouragement...

• They have encouraged me to be more successful in assessing my students in various ways.  The consultant gave us strategies to implement in our teaching.  We needed these visits to encourage us to greater heights.

• [Helped] to know what actual spending has occurred to know if too much or too little has been spent for the expectation or result we wanted

• [I learned about] aligning staff and teaching resources to ensure effectiveness.