Experts in Evaluation, Organizational Change, Professional Development, Research Methods &
Statistical Analysis...
Passionate Professors, Psychologists, & Professionals Seeking
to Make a Measurable Difference in K12 & the Public Sector.
Track Record of Success
Since 2008, Multi-Dimensional Education Inc (MDed) has Worked with More Than 155 State and Local Agencies as well as National Organizations Across 28 States… Our Efforts have Included:
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Managing more than $19.5 Million in K12 and at-risk youth focused grants funded by National Science Foundation, U.S Department of Education, & Department of Justice,
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Assessing approximately 2 million youth, caregivers, and staff; utilizing our proven multi-dimensional research methods, proprietary assessment tools, and analytic decision frameworks,
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Training more than 30k state and federal employees in advanced analytics, continuous improvement, evaluation, evidence-driven decision making, organizational change, and many other focuses such as trauma informed care,
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Developing the ServiceNow powered VitalChild-VitalClient case management app; an outcomes-driven trauma-informed solution to empower workforces across Child Welfare and Health & Human Services.
Services
Assessment of
K12 Education
& Climate Improvement
We refer to Multi-Dimensional Education as M.D. -- Ed (pronounced like a doctor (M.D.) named Ed). And similar to how medical doctors have an assortment of approaches for diagnosing and quantifying the differing ailments and health risks of patients, our tested research methods, proprietary assessment tools (e.g., MDNA), and advanced analytics provide valuable evidence essential for diagnosing what changes are needed to improve academic achievement and educator effectiveness.
Case Management, Assessment, & Predictive Analytics in the Public Sector
In addition to helping states modernize their case management methods and technology with the ServiceNow powered VitalChild-VitalClient app that MDed developed, we also can assist public sector agencies with gap analysis of current data collection approaches and analysis needs, as well as train states in new methodologies to empower predictive modeling, provide data analytics, and use such efforts to improve AI, decision making, and outcomes.
Grant Evaluation & Support for Foundations
Grants provide an excellent opportunity to test promising practices and programs. Assessing these valuable grants with sound measures and methods is essential to discovering what works, doesn't work, and why. MDed has a successful grant evaluation track record for private, state, and federally funded studies. Our nationally respected evaluation services, methods, and measures provide you with the undisputable evidence and non-biased outside evaluation services you need.
Policy & Legislation Advisors to Education & Child Welfare
The partners of MDed also have provided consulting related to federal and state level grants, policy, and legislation development. We have also written extensively on issues such as trauma legislation and education policy reform (e.g., The Handbook of Prosocial Education published by Roman & Littlefield).
Professional Development & Evidence-Driven Trainings
MDed offers a wide array of evidence-driven workshops, keynotes, book study talks, and onsite consulting for administrators and your workforce. We also provide trainings on trauma and mental health. To more strategically approach professional development, we also can help you identify your strengths and challenges before you begin any type of improvement plan. The goal of MDed is to provide you with evidence-based solutions, not just statistics!
A Corwin Publication
by MDed’s Founding
Partners
A Rowman
& Littlefield Publication
by MDed’s Founding Partners
K12 Solutions
Discover Your School’s DNA with the
Multi-Dimensional Needs Assessment
(MDNA) & Evaluation
We Deliver a Holistic View
As the process model to follow illustrates, the Multi-Dimensional Education approach to K12 provides you with a more comprehensive understanding of the systemic efforts of your school. The best approaches to education, we have been a part of, researched, or observed, approach success via a more holistic system that has many parts. The many parts or multiple dimensions are what we feel represents your schools’ DNA, and our MDNA provides a systemic evaluation of what is working, not working, and why.
Empowering You with a Continuous Improvement Process
It is the sum of these parts that create the synergy needed to help students and teachers succeed. A few of these parts you have more control over than others. While other parts (e.g., finance) you might have little control over. But the sum of the parts creates the synergy needed to generate the energy to improve. And by more accurately monitoring the functionality of the more meaningful dimensions predictive of your outcomes, and more closely assessing the positive or negative impact they are having, the better chance you have of offsetting the possible negative impact and increasing your chances for success.
Reframing & Refining Your Focus
Our MDNA and other assessment tools have been used in more than 25 states and 100 districts. We have worked with many school level and district educators. Our Multi-Dimensional Needs Assessment can provide you with the assessment, support, and training needed to not only identify your strengths and challenges, but also provide insights as to which facets within your schools are contributing to or detracting from academic achievement and social wellbeing. By helping you connect the gears which are the force behind improving climate, instruction and mindsets, this is how we help schools make a measurable difference in the lives of their kids, families, and educators.
As our Multi-Dimensional Education book with Corwin documents, and our process model to follow highlights, our continuous improvement process focuses on eight dimensions of education that have been linked to highly effective schools through more than 50 years of research.
Public Sector Solutions
Powered by ServiceNow, VitalChild-VitalClient's Intellectual Property Delivers…
To assist our colleagues and the admirable individuals working in public sectors agencies such as child welfare or health & human services, and even ACF and ORR, MDed developed the the trauma-informed outcomes-driven VitalChild-VitalClient solution to modernize the support and care provided to clients and staff.
Providing much more than an electronic version of what is used today for case management, VitalChild-VitalClient delivers advanced methods and assessment tools to empower evidence-driven decision making via predictive analytics.
A Comprehensive Modern Cloud-Based
Case Management Solution
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A Shorter Strategic Timeline to Implementation
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Client-Centered Case Management Technology
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Outcomes-Driven & Trauma-Informed Solutions
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Advanced Analytics Guided by Predictive Modeling
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Evidence-Driven Decision-Making Methodologies
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Increased Efficiency, Effectiveness & Safety
For More Info, Please Visit www.VitalChildVitalClient.com.
Meet The Professors Behind
The team at MDed consists of great number of our most talented colleagues, an assortment of talented experts with experience across numerous sectors and clients. MDed was started, however, by a team of productive entrepreneurial professors who wanted to make a measurable difference in the world outside of academia.
CEO/Co-Founder
Dr. Michael W. Corrigan
Corrigan is a well published author, psychologist, and associate professor/director of research (with most recent appointments at Marshall University & Ohio State University). Mike specializes in at-risk youth, human development, research methods, and statistical analysis. He has consulted for more than 155 states, school districts, and child focused organizations, as well as directed the investigative efforts for more than $19.5 million in federal research projects funded by National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Education and Department of Juvenile Justice. He also has years of personal and professional experience related to child welfare, foster care, and juvenile justice.
Email: Mike@MDedInc.com
Vice President of Child Welfare & HHS
Dr. Robert Foltz
Foltz is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in Illinois and Michigan. With nearly 30 years in the field, Foltz spent more than 18 years working within residential treatment centers for severely troubled youth and adults, initially as a clinician and then in administrative positions. Bob has consulted with a variety of residential treatment centers and state level DCFS advisory boards and has been a Board member on the Association of Children’s Residential Centers for many years. Throughout this time, Dr. Foltz has maintained a private practice for nearly 20 years.
Email: Robert@MDedInc.com
President/Co-Founder
Dr. Doug Grove
Grove is an associate provost/professor with an extensive background in Leadership, Organizational Change Management, and Online Instructional Learning. As a respected professor and administrator, Grove has taught courses on assessment, statistics, research design and accountability. Doug’s broad experience in evaluating youth and family wellbeing includes the management of numerous state and federal grants with Dr. Corrigan, as well as many other local education agency-based initiatives on the West Coast. Dr. Grove has taught English, business, and physical education in public and private school settings. He has worked as a high school vice principal, the coordinator of a county office assessment unit, and school board member.
Email: Doug@MDedInc.com
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MDed has offices in...
Columbus, Ohio (Headquarters)
Chicago, Illinois
Newport Beach, California
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