School Consultations
Consultation is available on-site or at the Stern Center. Consultations offer collaboration opportunities with school teams to help maximize the effectiveness of instruction and to help parents and educators better understand instructional needs.
Stern Center professional coaching staff will work with you and your colleagues to plan appropriate professional learning targeted to your students’ needs and your School Action Plan. We will work with school teams during teacher in-service and/or school days to provide on-site training. We also provide on-going mentoring support and Instructional Professional Learning within which we offer targeted strategies for specific individual students while helping school personnel gain increased skills to better meet the needs of challenged learners. Stern Center professionals can also assist school teams in developing and establishing data systems for progress monitoring informing instructional strategies for all 3 Tiers of RTI. Teachers and specialists will gain insights into research-based literacy instruction and learn practical strategies to apply in the classroom.
Our school consultation services include:
Observation
Observing within the classroom, resource room, or throughout the school setting
Demonstrating Teaching
Modeling a specific teaching strategy or sequence with appropriate materials
Informal Assessment
Using non-standardized tests to help in educational program design
Prescriptive Program Design
Designing curriculum for specific skill areas such as phonological awareness, structured language, reading comprehension, written expression, social skills, study skills, and math
Individual Education Program (IEP) Development
Using evaluation data to assist in developing IEPs suitable for students with unique learning profiles, incorporating appropriate teaching strategies, and designing creative service delivery models
Record Review
Reviewing a student's cumulative assessment file in order to make educational recommendations
Telephone Conferences
Conferencing with parents and school personnel as requested
Alternative Service Delivery
Schools are sometimes challenged to provide residential placements for students, particularly during the middle and high school years. For this population, the Stern Center can provide alternative instructional programming.