We design innovative educational and professional development programs for students, teachers, and educators working at schools, colleges, universities, non-profit organizations, government agencies, and corporations.
Our Online Curriculum
The Oaks Center is constantly developing our proprietary curriculum of cutting-edge education and professional development programs.
These programs are available to anyone on a self-guided or mentored basis.
Courses in development include Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment, Navigating the First Years of Teaching, Equity as a Founding Principle, Big Picture Teaching and Learning, Critical Thinking, Creativity and Creative Thinking, Putting the A into STEM, Environmental and Climate, Faculty Leadership, Action Research for the Classroom, and much more.
Onsite Facilitators
The Oaks Center provides and manages instructional design and onsite professional development facilitators and mentoring.
Every academic environment must be ruthlessly honest with itself in order to understand where opportunities for improvement can be found. Our staff has worked with faculty at educational institutions of all levels to design programs that help schools and training programs recognize and solve issues and challenges that negatively affect the quality of the educational experience for students.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
The Oaks Center works to help institutions of all varieties center equity as a founding principle.
Self-examination, honesty, and difficult conversations are required to displace centuries of bias and unfairness with educational programs that offer opportunity for all. The Oaks Center works hard to find specialists in the field so that we can provide the best available programs to make equity a founding principle of your institution.
Collaborations
The Oaks Center collaborates with other institutions and organizations to get better at what we do – and to help them get better, too.
Education is collaborative, not capitalistic. The Oaks Center mindfully participates in the global, national, and local educational ecosystem, making sure to treat every person and organization who is making a good faith effort to improve education and educational systems, with the respect and support they need and deserve.
Everyone wins when we work together.
Corporate Programs
The Oaks Center works with corporations to improve their programs and processes with their trainers, employees, resellers and channel partners.
When advanced educational and professional development techniques are applied to corporate training and partner programs, amazing things happen to their effectiveness. Your programs become more engaging, they put your corporation, products, and services front of mind for your resellers and partner program participants, and everyone working within those programs becomes more excited and energetic about working with you and your products.
Online Learning
The Oaks Center works with our clients to make programs available universally, and at lower cost, by bringing advanced educational techniques into online learning.
The Oaks Center can create, manage, and operate online courses for your students or employees in an online portal custom-designed to meet your requirements exactly. This can make it less expensive for your students or employees to improve their knowledge and work while simultaneously improving outcomes. Our online courses can be self-guided, or students can be supported by one-on-one or group mentoring sessions. We’ll even send our professional development facilitators onsite to your location if that’s what will serve your organization’s needs most effectively.