The EIC Model™
Environment as an Integrating Context for improving student learning
Description of SEER's Professional Services and Fees
The following summarizes the
professional services offered by the State Education and
Environment Roundtable (SEER) and associated fees. SEER's
team of education professionals includes specialists in
program planning, professional development, and program
evaluation. This highly experienced team is available to
work with your team of educators and planners to develop an
implementation strategy that is unique to your needs.
SEER is nationally recognized as
the developer of the EIC Model™ (using the Environment as an
Integrating Context for learning). SEER has provided
professional development and technical support toward
implementation of the EIC
Model™ to more than 700 schools in 14
states.
SEER's team offers the following
types of support:
• Professional development through SEER's EIC Model™ Implementation Institutes;
• Keynote presentations, seminars, and webinars about the EIC Model™ and other topics associated with creating and supporting standards-based EBE programs;
• Technical support in the implementation of the EIC Model™ and other EBE programs; and
• Program evaluation related to the EIC Model™ and other EBE programs.
Program Design and Implementation Planning
A SEER consultant will meet with your
program's team to define a strategic plan for creating an
Environment-Based Education (EBE) program for your school.
SEER's consultant will help your team:
• Determine your professional development needs and design an appropriate strategy;
• Decide about and engage the stakeholders who can support the implementation of the school's program;
• Identify technical resources and sources of community support; and,
• Develop a program evaluation strategy and design appropriate evaluation instruments and student assessment strategies.
Costs: Hourly rate of $125 for SEER's professional staff, plus associated travel expenses
Professional
Development
SEER's EIC Model™ Implementation
Institutes are designed for teams of teachers and administrators
of grade levels K-12. The institutes provide educational teams
with minds-on, collaborative activities that are the tools for
developing and implementing an EIC Model™ program in their
schools. Generally, these institutes involve teams from multiple
schools. SEER has also designed and conducted specialized EIC
Model™ Implementation Institutes for individual schools and
school districts.
Costs: 4-day EIC Model™ Implementation Institutes for:
31-50 participants: $12,000 (including materials) plus associated travel expenses
51-70 participants: $15,000 (including materials) plus associated travel expenses
71-100 participants: $18,000 (including materials) plus associated travel expenses
Keynote Presentations, Seminars, and Webinars
SEER's Director, Dr. Gerald A.
Lieberman, is available on a limited basis to make keynote
presentations about Environment-Based Education and his new
book, Education
and the Environment: Creating Standards-Based
Programs for Schools and Districts.
He is also available to speak about SEER's research into the
educational efficacy of the EIC Model™ and implementation of the
State of California's Education and the Environment Initiative
(EEI). [SEER served as the principal consultant to the State of
California and led the development of the EEI curriculum.]
Dr. Lieberman has provided keynote
addresses to hundreds of educational organizations over the past
20 years. A brief biography is available at: Dr.
Gerald A. Lieberman biography.
Costs: $2,000 plus travel
SEER's evaluators work with the local
education team to construct a program evaluation plan. This
evaluation process typically involves collecting and analyzing
measures of progress toward fully implementing the EIC Model™. SEER's
team also advises participating schools on which student
achievement and behavioral data they might want to collect.
SEER has also developed a framework for
monitoring and assessing implementation of the EIC Model™.
SEER's instruments are used for both formative and summative
evaluations of progress toward implementing the EIC Model™.
These tools subsequently become part of the schools’ improvement
plans for evaluating the success of the EIC Model™
implementation process and student achievement results.
SEER's EIC Model™ evaluation approach
includes three key components:
• Stages of Concern questionnaire (SoC); and,
• Innovation Configuration instrument (IC).
Self-evaluation Rubric The rubrics are organized around each of the educational components of an EIC Model™ program as well as considering leadership and community involvement processes. These rubrics establish standards for implementing the EIC Model™ allowing educators to: understand what is expected of them; outline implementation strategies; define performance; and, provide for ongoing program evaluation.
Stages of Concern The Stages of Concern (SoC) instrument is a diagnostic tool created to explain the level of teacher buy-in and to propose ways to monitor and increase implementation of education innovations. The SoC instrument is used to measure how people feel about the innovation that they are expected to implement.
Innovation Configuration The Innovation Configuration (IC) is a diagnostic methodology created to look at the way teachers actually implement innovations in educational practice. SEER worked with a staff consultant from the Southwest Regional Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) to develop an EIC Model™-specific Innovation Configuration instrument. This instrument helps SEER evaluate the qualities of various instructional practices as schools work to fully implement the EIC Model™.
SEER can also design specialized program evaluation instruments to meet the individual needs of other organization's education programs. For example, SEER has designed evaluation strategies and instruments, as well as conducting program evaluations for First Hand Learning and Adopt A Watershed.
Costs: Hourly rate of $125 for SEER's professional staff, plus associated travel expenses
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Telephone: (858) 676-0272
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