The Ways That I Can Help You

Barry Sweeny
Consultant, Presenter & Keynoter, Trainer, Facilitator, Coach & Author
26 W 413 Grand Ave. Wheaton, IL 60187, 630-668-2605

e-mail is [email protected]

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Limited Free Advice

In-Depth Advice & Consulting

Delivery of a Keynote, Training, or Presentation at Your Site

You Can Travel To and Attend My Trainings

My Fee Structure

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Limited Free Advice

1. I am motivated to help as many people as much as I can. Since I often receive as many as 15 requests for help and advice a day, that means I must limit the time spent giving advice on questions I have already answered in a publication. When I get a request that I have not previously written about, I will answer that request by writing a paper on that topic, and then make that paper available to everyone. So...

2. Check my Publications List, order, and read the papers that I have written to capture my experience and advice. These papers are listed:

• By topic on the web pages for that topic, and also...
• In the publications list for the written information that I sell.

3. If you do not find written advice on your question, contact me by E-MAIL for limited free advice

4. Phone me AFTER you have checked and read the relevant written materials FIRST. My home office is 630-668-2605.

If you are an educator, I will gladly help you for FREE for about 30 MINUTES. If what you seek is more in-depth consultation, that costs $1 per minute after the free 30 minutes is used up.

5. You can also write to me AFTER you have checked and read the relevant written materials FIRST.

Barry Sweeny, 26 W 413 Grand Ave. Wheaton, IL 60187

In-Depth Advice & Consulting

I can provide information and advice through cost-effective, in-depth & on-target consultation, planning, and problem solving at your site, OR ...

We can consult together on the telephone and get a great deal done very inexpensively because there are no travel costs. If you are an educator, I will give you the first 30 minutes for FREE and then I charge $1 a minute (which is $60 per hour of course). Call me at 630-668-2605. If I am not available, leave a message suggesting a couple of times I can call you back and describing the information you want so I can be prepared. The cost is the same even if you have a speaker phone with a whole group listening.

I can work on projects for you at my own office. Usually I will meet with or call people before doing the project to gather the info I need to do the project well and to ensure the result will meet your needs and expectations. I charge $ 60 an hour for shorter projects and $50 an hour for projects that take more than 5 hours. Such projects might include:

• Writing or critiquing a grant for you. I have written over 20 successful, state, federal, and foundation grants worth million$ and have only had a grant proposal rejected once. I have also been employed as a grant reader by the State of Illinois.
• Developing assessments, writing curriculum, aligning curriculum and assessments with standards, or evaluating curriculum and assessment systems. I have over 20 years of experience at the school, district, intermendiate center, and state level in doing these kinds of projects.
• Critiquing a school improvement plan and providing suggestions that will improve the impact of that plan. This was a big part of my work at the intermediate service center level for six years and I am well known for this work and for helping schools to become more effective at creating improvement plans that actually result in improvement of teaching and student learning. If the SIP plan is less than 50 pages, I charge $150 to critique it. Call me if the SIP is bigger than that, at 630-668-2605.
• I can do many different kinds of development, planning, evaluating, and project proposals. For example during September and October 1998, I had a contract to write the Facilitator's Manual and serve as the content consultant for a new two-tape ASCD video series "Mentoring to Improve Schools", published in April 1999.
• Call me to discuss your needs. I promise that I will be honest with you about my ability to help. If I am not strong in the area you want help with, I will recommend someone to you who I know to have that strength.

Click here to see my client list, background and experience, and some of the kinds of projects on which I have been working.

What others say who have used my services.

Click here to see the list of topics on which I can train or present.

Click here to find out what others say about my trainings and presentations.

I provide dozens of different courses, presentations, workshops, keynotes, and conferences on each of the topics in which I specialize:

• Mentoring and Induction, in any setting, but especially of new teachers and new administrators
• School Improvement Planning and organization development
• Effective Staff Development Planning and Practices
• Authentic Performance Assessment, Teaching/training, and Learning
• Peer Observation and Coaching for Performance Improvement and Professional Growth

If you are interested in attending one of these upcoming events CLICK HERE for more information.

My Fee Structure

Click here if you want to know how much I charge for the work I do.