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To ensure teaching and learning are standards driven and student supportive so experiences are the following:
Contact us to discuss how we might best serve and support your school, staff, and students.
MAVERIK EDUCATION serves and supports to schools and staff on how to do the following:
We offer support and training on how to phrase and pose good questions that will differentiate instruction, personalize learning, and prompt students to demonstrate different levels of thinking and discuss their Depth of Knowledge (DOK).
We provide support and training on how engage students to learn through inquiry and by questioning with good questions that will set the instructional focus, serve as assessments, personalize learning, and spark - or "hook" - students' curiosity and interest to learn.
We provide support and training on how to use Depth of Knowledge (DOK) as a concept, framework, language, and process to establish, evaluate, and elevate the complexity and demand of student learning expectations set by academic standards, activities, and assessments.
We offer training and support on how to develop and design activities and assessments that address, align to, assess the learning expectation of academic standards over a range of DOK Levels.
We offer training and support on how to diffuse, implement, saturate, and sustain innovative ideas and initiatives with an education organization using the Diffusions of Innovation model by Everett Rogers.
We offer an AI assistant for educators that deconstructs the learning expectations of academic standards, determines their DOK Level accurately, and designs aligned and authentic curricular components and educational experiences.
MAVERIK EDUCATION is owned and operated by Erik M. Francis, an international author, educator, presenter, and professional development producer and provider with over 30 years of expertise in education. Erik is the author of the following bestselling books:
Through MAVERIK EDUCATION, Erik provides professional learning services and support based on the ideas, research, strategies and work featured in his books to schools and staff. He has facilitated onsite and virtual workshops with schools and staff throughout the United States and internationally in regions such as Singapore, Malaysia, and the Middle East. He has also been a keynote, featured, and breakout presenter at numerous national, regional, and local conferences and summits hosted by education organizations such as ASCD, Learning Forward, the National Association for Elementary and Secondary Principles (NAESP / NASSP), the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE), the Southern Regional Education Board, the College Board, the the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), and the National Teacher Center. He has presented and provicded professional development sessions, trainings, and workshops at schools, districts, organizations, colleges, and universities throughout the United States and internationally
Erik received his Master’s in Education Leadership from Northern Arizona University and Master’s of Science in Television/Radio/and Film Production and Management from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He also holds a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Rhetoric and Communication and English from the University at Albany.
Erik lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his family. He enjoys football (Go Arizona Cardinals and New York Giants), basketball (Go Phoenix Suns!), and baseball (Go Arizona Diamondbacks and New York Yankees!). He spends his free time working out, playing guitar, listening to classic rock music (I am a huge fan of Van Halen and Led Zeppelin), and watching classic films from the 1970s and 1980s (My favorite films are the Godfather trilogy, Jaws, the Star Wars saga, the Rocky series including the Creed movies, '70s political thrillers, and '80s action films). His favorite movie is TOP GUN, which partly influenced him to name his company "Maverik" by combining his name with his daughters MAdison and AVery.