EdFOCUS Initiative provides a wide array of customized services to school districts in standards-based curriculum and "best practices" instruction, with an emphasis on delivery, differentiated instruction, and formative assessment techniques to increase student achievement.   We pay particular attention to narrowing the performance gap between advantaged and disadvantaged or underserved students.

EdFOCUS is unique in that we customize services to the precise needs of each client.  Among the most frequently requested are:

• Standards-based reform of curriculum
• Best practices in classroom instruction
• Diagnostic building profiles
• Long and short-range Action Planning
• Collaborative Observation/Lesson Study
• Learning Communities
• Formative Assessments
• Data-analysis
• Value-Added planning

The EdFOCUS Initiative team has proven experience in leading schools and districts in the implementation of site-specific, research-based processes that improve student achievement, such as:

• The Ohio Improvement Process, known as OIP
• The STEM Initiative (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)
• RTI (Response to Intervention)
• Value-Added
• Professional Learning Communities