services
In addition to our presentations, facilitations and workshops, we offer a wide range of support services. We have an extensive history of providing these services from classroom to school to district to state and provincial Department of Education and everything in between.
Many of these services are utilized by our corporate clients as well. We have worked with a wide range of clients in categories ranging from the financial sector to the film industry to the medical industry to community and governmental groups.
We are ready to work with your business, organization or school, contribute to your planning processes, and assist you in converting your vision into practice.
Leaders must be the shepherds of the process rather than the captain of the ship. The key to successful implementation is to cultivate a dynamic, collaborative leadership culture. Experience has shown again and again that change doesn't happen just because it's mandated. The InfoSavvy Group will help you develop a broad-based leadership culture that cultivates a “we not me” approach to change.
Let us help you assess the impact of your investments in instructional design, staff development, technology and curriculum in delivering measurable student results. High profile investments demand a continuous assessment process to guide decisions and communicate results. Accountability should not be viewed as a punishment, but rather be used as a process to guide groups in articulating their progress and revising their resource decisions.
Before you spend another penny, a systems audit will help you clearly understand the current state of things. It provides a snapshot of all of the factors that could influence successful planning for any initiative by providing baseline data. A systems audit lays the foundation for defining the gap between what is and what could be. The InfoSavvy Group will help you create a clear snapshot of your current practices.
Educational initiatives are commonly put into place in isolation without considering other critical factors. When put into place in a piecemeal, ad hoc manner, this commonly results in initiatives that work at cross-purposes to one another. In order to effectively use limited dollars, it’s critical to align all elements including student learning goals, state or national standards, instructional pedagogies, curriculum, staff development, infrastructure, policies & procedures, and new technologies. Let the InfoSavvy Group help you develop a systems approach for effective implementation of your initiatives.
Effective design requires the development of effective learning models. This entails a 7-step process, which includes how to develop:
- the "why" or rationale for educational change
- what all students need to know
- what the research tells us about learners
- pertinent new instructional models
- engaged learning environments
- the building of new instructional models
- the creation of dynamic action plans.
Finally, the 7-step process must align with "measurable (quantitative, qualitative, formative, summative) student results" (Bernajean Porter, Grappling With Accountability, 1999). Let the InfoSavvy Group help you develop a customized curriculum/instructional model that supports district, state, and/or national standards, while at the same time addressing the 21st Century literacies often overlooked by standards.
Planners often view facility issues and the related costs as an afterthought to instructional design. Such factors are a hidden, but nonetheless important cost that should be factored into all planning and spending equations. The InfoSavvy Group will help you develop cost-effective strategies that give you the best value for your investments.
The Info Savvy Media Team creates rich learning media for corporate and educational applications that excite audiences. We work with speakers, facilitators and consultants to design and create videos, CDs, DVDs, websites, books, kits, instructional media and other materials that articulate their ideas to their client and customer base.
Taking advantage of low run digital production methods, the Info Savvy Media Team creates high quality short run videos, DVDs, books and other products in international formats. Our award-winning designers have worked around the world on a variety of projects and in a variety of styles. No matter how big the project, if you have something to say, we can help it be heard.
Every week the InfoSavvy Group scans literally hundreds of on-line articles from a wide range of sources for news and commentary. We identify what we consider to be the best 10 or so articles on educational change, trends, controversy and combine these with new books, web sites, personal commentary and contributed materials and distribute it to more than 10,000 subscribers in more than 50 countries. We can customize this service to meet your specific information needs.
