Services and Fees

The EIC Model™
using the Environment as an Integrating Context for improving student learning

Description of Professional Services and Fees

The following description 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). This model is currently in use in almost 150 schools in 10 states. It was based on research, reported in Closing the Achievement Gap: Using the Environment as an Integrating Context for Learning(1998 & 2002), at 40 schools nationwide.

The EIC Model™ is a system of specific, interconnected educational practices and encompasses professional development and program evaluation.

Program Implementation Planning
EIC Model™ Implementation Institutes
Keynote Presentations
Follow-up Technical Support
Program Evaluation

See below for a full description of SEER's services.

Program Implementation Planning
A SEER consultant will meet with your program’s team to define a strategic plan for creating your EIC Model™-based school improvement program. SEER’s consultant will help your team:
·     Identify the appropriate educational teams for the initial professional development institute
·     Design an EIC Model™ Implementation Plan;
·     Determine the appropriate members for the Educational Leadership Team;
·     Identify technical resources and sources of community support; and,
·     Initiate program planning and evaluation.

Costs — Daily professional rate of $880 plus travel-related expenses (airfare, car, lodging, etc.)

EIC Model™ Implementation Institutes
SEER designed its EIC Model™ Implementation Institutes specifically 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.

SEER’s professional development specialists train teachers and administrators in EIC Model™ practices in four-day institutes for up to 60 participants. Participating schools are encouraged to send interdisciplinary teams representing at least three disciplines or specialties.

Each highly interactive institute provides collaborative activities that help teams learn to:
·     integrate instruction and learning using SEER’s curriculum-mapping process;
·     provide hands-on learning experiences through problem-solving and issue-based studies;
·     work successfully in interdisciplinary team structures;
·     develop learner-centered, constructivist approaches adapted to individual students; and,
·     identify community and natural settings that can be used as contexts for EIC Model™-based instruction.

Since 1998, SEER has provided over 200 EIC Model™ Implementation Institutes for state education agencies, school districts, and charter schools in:

California	Idaho	Massachusetts	New York	Texas
Colorado	Iowa	Minnesota	North Carolina	Washington
Florida	Kentucky	Montana	Pennsylvania	Wyoming
Georgia	Maryland	New Jersey	South Carolina
Costs —4-day EIC Model™ Implementation Institutes for: 30 or fewer participants: $9,000 (including materials) plus airfare, rental car, lodging and meals 31-50 participants: $12,000 (including materials) plus airfare, rental car, lodging and meals 51-70 participants: $15,000 (including materials) plus airfare, rental car, lodging and meals 71-100 participants: $18,000 (including materials) plus airfare, rental car, lodging and meals

Keynote Presentations
SEER’s Director, Dr. Gerald A. Lieberman, is available on a limited basis to make keynote presentations 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: http://www.seer.org/pages/galbio.html

Costs — $2,000 plus airfare, rental car, lodging, and meals

Follow-up Technical Support
SEER’s experience indicates that it is most effective if school teams receive technical support for up to three years following the EIC Model™ Implementation Institute. This support takes the form of multiple site visits and ongoing communication during the initial years of implementing the EIC Model™.

These recommended support visits are typically organized as follows:
·     Year One: site visit by SEER staff every two-three months.
·     Year Two: site visit by SEER staff every three-four months.
·     Year Three: site visit by SEER staff twice during the school year.

Costs — Daily professional rate of $880 plus travel-related expenses (airfare, car, lodging, etc.)

Program Evaluation
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 student achievement and behavior (e.g., standardized test scores, GPAs, attendance rates, dropout rates, etc.). SEER’s evaluation coordinator will develop an individualized evaluation to meet program needs.

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:
·     Self-evaluation rubrics;
·     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 lack 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™.

Costs — Daily professional rate of $880 plus travel-related expenses (airfare, car, lodging, etc.)

Last update 6/1/09
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