The Madison Institute ("TMI") is a comprehensive educational resource and professional development services provider, serving the New Jersey/New York area for over ten years.
TMI provides teaching and learning solutions to K-12 and higher education. In addition, TMI has been proud to serve as a lead consultant the last five years for the New Jersey Performance Assessment Alliance (NJPAA), an alliance including the New Jersey Department of Education, NJPSA, NJASA and a coalition of various corporations. To learn more about NJPAA please CLICK HERE to visit the website at www.njpaa.org.
TMI takes pride in the fact that it strives to reinvent professional development and consultation through relevant, interactive and collaborative experiences, and innovative delivery mechanisms. Our services are designed to enhance all aspects of the educational process, from teacher and administrator competencies through student achievement.
Our comprehensive suite of resources and services includes, but is not limited to: premium professional development programs, in-district consulting services, strategic planning, curriculum assessment and instructional design, assessment tools and programs, and e-learning solutions.
TMI offers school districts with a wide-array of premium professional development offerings and consulting services. Below is a sample list of the various professional development and consulting services provided by TMI:
A Brain-based Approach for English Language Learners
A Brain-based Approach to Fluency Instruction
A Brain-based Approach to Improving Reading Skills: K-3 Specific
A Brain-based Approach to Improving Reading Skills: K-8
A Brain-based Approach to Vocabulary Instruction
Administrators as Change Agents
Classroom Management Strategies for Effective Instruction
Communicating with Parents: Interpersonal Skills that Work
Curriculum Mapping
Differentiated Instruction K-12: An Introduction to the Philosophy
Differentiated Instruction K-12: Practical Classroom Applications
Effective Leadership: Team Building, Community and Communication
Effective Leadership: Tools for Success
Effective Reading in the Content Areas: K-12
Emotional Intelligence: The Child’s Emotional Coach
Formative Assessment
Performance Assessment
Preparing for NJASK and Meeting AYP
Principal as Instructional Leader
Self-evaluation and Innovative Supervision Strategies
Simple Connectivity Strategies Integrating Technology: Internet, Video and Other Multi-media
Strategic Planning
Teachers as Action Researchers
Teaching and Learning in a Flat World
Utilizing Technology to Increase Student Achievement
Write to Read Connection
Your Student the Person: Lifestyles and Attitudes
In addition to our varied professional development and consulting services, TMI also offers the K-12 learning community with a variety of e-learning solutions: SMaIS™ and EduWave™.
Currently used in our support of the New Jersey Performance Assessment Alliance initiative, SMaIS is a sophisticated, single k-12 management solution which provides state, school administrators, district staff, teachers, parents and students with easy and immediate access to student related information.
System Functionality
- Student Administration: manage day-to-day student administration and information such as demographics, scheduling, discipline, report cards, medical history, transcripts and standardized testing analysis.
- Teachers: utilize a comprehensive web-based gradebook, assignment and attendance classroom management system that allows communication with parents.
- Parents: access from anywhere through a convenient portal to check on their child's progress and other relevant information
- Performance Analysis: use an integrated data warehouse to measure and understand school or district-wide performance to develop data-driven action plans
- Special Education: special needs staff can efficiently manage all aspects of special education including the referral and evaluation process, development, historical information and Medicaid billing.
- Integrated Reporting: produce extensive flexible standard reports, regulatory reports or use our report writer for on-demand reporting.
EduWave is a comprehensive e-learning solution designed for those schools or districts desiring of a platform that truly embraces the 21st century school:
- Comprehensive administrator functions
- Communication portal and interactive capabilities
- Authoring tools
- Online professional development
EduWave is a comprehensive e-learning solution that satisfies the needs of all members of the learning community: student, educator (teacher and administrator) and parent.
FOR THE CHILDREN
Learning in the world we live in.
EduWave is designed to introduce children to the world they live in through relevant, interactive and collaborative learning experiences with students from around the globe.
By using tools and resources that promote education across the worldwide community, children can begin to experience the world's diversity firsthand - not just from their parents, teachers and the media.Think of the possibilities - children learning with children from other cultural, political and religious backgrounds.
Think of their wide-eyed sense of wonder as they look past "differences" and see themselves in their peers from around the world - all with the same desire to laugh, learn and grow in peaceful surroundings.
Understanding the planet we share is critical to creating a more harmonious world. With EduWave, you'll have the ability to spark such understanding by bringing the world into your classrooms.
Today's children will be the leaders of tomorrow before you know it. Now you have an uncommon opportunity to cast a beautiful new light of knowledge, experience and understanding upon them - a light that can help guide today's children into an even brighter future.
FOR TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS and PARENTS
Relevant, interactive and collaborative learning.
Next to our children, the world's greatest human resource is our educators, who work tirelessly to provide young people with the skills and tools they need to live rich, rewarding and successful lives.
Today, especially, educators must be prepared to equip children for the global, digital world by creating a curriculum that lives and breathes - and a learning environment that is relevant, interactive and collaborative.
EduWave, the award-winning e-learning platform, is designed to help you provide this kind of learning and address the critical educational needs of the 21st century. What's more, EduWave streamlines the collaborative process among teachers, administrators and parents - from curricula planning to communication to review and assessment.
Through EduWave, teachers can access:
- compelling tools and resources for content creation
- professional development modules
- worldwide best practices
- rubric design and evaluative tools- easy-to-use instructional and assessment design tools
- a master library of standards-based instructional models
Through EduWave, administrators can access:
- strategic action-planning tools for short
- and long-term projects
- a master library of action plans and challenge solutions
- useful professional development modules
- a comprehensive student management system
Through EduWave, parents can access:
- clear, real-time student progress updates
- real-time connection with teachers
- up-to-date information on school and district activities
- their child's records and schedule
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