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  • Maverik Education AI
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  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Books by Erik M. Francis
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  • Video

Why Maverik Education?

Our Why

To enhance teaching and learning so that the experience is the following:


  • educational
  • engaging
  • encouraging
  • enriching
  • enjoyable

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Contact us to discuss how we might best serve and support your school, staff, and students.

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How Does Maverik Education Serve and Support?

Teaching

Standards

Teaching

We offer guidance, support and training on how to plan and provide enriching educational experiences that are standards driven and student supportive.

Learning

Standards

Teaching

We offer guidance, support and training on how to engage and encourage students to demonstrate and discuss the depth and extent of their learning. 

Standards

Standards

Assessment

We offer guidance, support and training on how to use Depth of Knowledge (DOK) to establish and evaluate the complexity  of learning expectations set by standards.

Assessment

Assessment

Assessment

We offer guidance, support and training on how to measure and monitor student performance and progress based on the demand of the standards and the strengths of the students.

Leadership

Assessment

Leadership

We offer guidance, support and training on how to introduce and implement initiatives and transform them into expectations that strengthen and sustain a culture for learning. 

Technology

Assessment

Leadership

We offer an AI platform featuring a variety of apps that serve as a thought partner for planning, a provider of ideas and information and a producer of curricular resources

Who Is Maverik Education?

Erik M. Francis, Owner


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:


  • Inquiring Minds Want to Learn: Posing Good Questions That Promote Student Inquiry (Solution Tree, 2024)
  • Deconstructing Depth of Knowledge: A Method and Model for Deeper Teaching and Learning (Solution Tree, 2022)
  • Now That's a Good Question! How to Promote Cognitive Rigor Through Classroom Questioning (ASCD, 2016)


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 provided 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, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Journey), 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). One of his favorite movies is Top Gun, which partly influenced him to call his company "Maverik" by combining his name with his daughters MAdison and AVERy.


Erik is also the developer of MAVERIK EDUCATION AI, an education AI platform that draws on his research based ideas, methods, and work as a knowledge source to serve as a thought partner for instructional deliver and design, a provider of ideas and information, and a producer of curricular resources that enhance teacher instruction and encourage student learning.


Areas of Expertise

  • 21st Century Learning
  • Academic Interventions
  • Academic Rigor
  • Acceleration and Enrichment
  • Affective Learning
  • Assessment and Grading
  • Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Cognitive Frameworks
  • Cognitive Rigor
  • College and Career Readiness
  • College and Career Readiness Standards
  • Comprehensive School Reform
  • Curriculum and Instruction
  • Curriculum Design
  • Curriculum Mapping
  • Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
  • Differentiated Instruction
  • Disciplinary Literacy
  • Distance Learning
  • English Language Development (ELD)
  • English Learners (EL)
  • Exceptional Learners
  • Expeditionary Learning
  • Federal Programs
  • Formative Assessment
  • Gifted and Talented (GT)
  • Growth Mindset
  • High Ability, Motivation and Potential
  •  Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
  • Individualized Teaching and Learning 
  • Inquiry-Based Learning
  • Instructional Design
  • Instructional Design
  • Instructional Strategies
  • Learning Taxonomies 
  • Literacy
  • Mathematics
  • Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS)
  • Multiple Intelligences
  • Personalized Learning
  • Postsecondary Readiness
  • Problem-Based Learning (ProBL)
  • Product-Based Learning (ProdBL)
  • Professional Learning Communities (PLC)
  • Project-Based Learning (PBL)
  • Response to Intervention (RTI)
  • Rigor and Relevance
  • Science Engineering Technology and Mathematics (STEM)
  • Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)
  • Service Learning
  • Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
  • SOLO Taxonomy
  • Special Education
  • Special Populations
  • Standards-Based Grading (SBG)
  • Standards-Based Learning (SBL)
  • Standards-Driven Learning (SDL)
  • Structured English Immersion (SEI)
  • Teacher Wellness
  • Twice Exceptional Students (2E) 
  • Understanding by Design (UbD)
  • Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

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