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About ADI

Small Town Roots, Nationwide Impact

Located in Lincoln, IL, The Academic Development Institute (ADI) is a non-profit corporation founded in 1984 with the mission of assisting families, schools, and communities with children’s academic and personal development.  ADI focuses on three areas of research and practice:

ADI's office in Lincoln, IL

 

The dynamics of change (improvement, innovation, transformation) and the science of indicators

 

Personal Competencies that propel student learning

 

The school as a community, including family engagement

In each of these topical realms, ADI takes a systems approach, integrating parts to create highly functioning wholes.  ADI applies its ingenuity to the service of its clients.

 

 

 

 

 

ADI's vision is of an American landscape filled with distinct school communities reflecting the hopes and dreams of the people intimately attached to them. To this image of the school as a community, ADI is devoted. When the school functions as a community, its constituents (students, parents, teachers, staff) associate with one another and share common values about the education of children.

Lifelong Learning:

A Shared Vision

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A Success Cycle

At the root, members of the school community assume responsibility for one another. Those children become our children, and parents are not external agents, but full partners in the education of their children and of each other's children. Teachers are not isolated practitioners of pedagogy, but professionals integrated into the web of community and buoyed by common purpose.

BOARD MEMBERS

Allison Layland, Ph.D., Chair

Education Specialist

Florida and the Islands Comprehensive Center at ETS

 

Loverty Erickson, M.Ed.

Consultant

Native American Education

 

 

Todd E. Johnson, Ph.D

Director

Center for Research & Data Analysis

 

Ryan Baker, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Graduate School of Education

University of Pennsylvania

 

JR Hoyer

Chief Strategy Officer

PLS 3rd Learning

 

 

Deb Page

President

The Institute for Performance Improvement

 

Susan J. Paik, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Claremont Graduate University

School of Educational Studies

 

Bi Vuong

Director, Proving Ground

Center for Education Policy Research

Harvard University

ADI's national involvement

Virgin Islands

We're connected nationally with those who share our vision!

Through projects, tools, resources, and ideas, ADI has given and received national support to impact local education. We are ready to assist you in your work!  View our services, free resources, or contact us today.

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