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To enhance teaching and learning so that the experience is the following:
Contact us to discuss how we might best serve and support your school, staff, and students.
We offer guidance, support and training on how to plan and provide enriching educational experiences that are standards driven and student supportive.
We offer guidance, support and training on how to engage and encourage students to demonstrate and discuss the depth and extent of their learning.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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.