Expatiate Communications

Social-emotional learning (SEL) is proven to be highly effective in promoting social skills and emotional well-being in students with special needs. However, how can special education schools implement this? Selecting an appropriate SEL curriculum, implementing effective strategies, and evaluating its impact on creating a supportive and inclusive learning environment for students is challenging for a school with no prior experience with SEL.

An expert in special education, Expatiate Communications helps local educational agencies (LEAs) effectively implement the SEL curriculum in educational settings to support students with special needs who often struggle with social interactions and regulating their emotions. The company helps educators select and implement relevant SEL curriculum that aligns with students' individual requirements and goals and is research-supported and flexible enough for tailored instruction.

It builds innovative and sustainable programs using data and technological tools, offering targeted support and consulting to public schools, districts and charter schools. It offers an innovative predictive analytics solution, the Intelligent Tracking and Analytics Program (iTAAP), an online SEL survey, and a platform for the student study team (SST) process to improve outcomes for students and schools.

iTAAP automatically integrates all data sources, saving schools time and effort in manual data entry and compilation. As a result, clients can unleash the full potential of their educational data and eliminate the headache of working with stale data that doesn’t fuel any meaningful change in the school district.

“We provide real-time projections and data to make informed decisions to enhance student and school performance,” says Kim Hopko, senior director of consulting services. “Using predictive analytics and proprietary algorithms, iTAAP forecasts students’ performance in advance for a particular year, allowing clients to focus their efforts on ensuring academic success.”

Expatiate Communications’ dedicated technology team working on the iTAAP solution supports clients in effectively harnessing the predictive power of this tool to pave the way for a brighter future in SEL. Its SEL survey provides a quick and comprehensive assessment for valuable insights into various aspects of SEL, enabling educators to effectively target their resources to address specific student needs. Expatiate Communications’ online platform for the SST process tracks everything schools need to monitor, including meeting scheduling, recording parent input, and detailing how to support the child. They can track and document the student’s progress and the intervention methods that are proven to be effective.

The platform, coupled with the online SEL survey, allows staff to quickly identify and address specific areas where students need support in SEL. It becomes an integral part of every school's multi-tiered systems of support. The company ensures that interventions start early in the SST process and align with common psychoeducational goals and benchmarks for maximum effectiveness of special education programs and better student outcomes. Schools can pinpoint and track where support is being offered and which strategies are effective. This enables schools and parents to collaboratively support the child in areas of difficulty.

We provide real-time projections and data to make informed decisions to enhance student and school performance

The effectiveness of these tools was recently highlighted when a teacher conducted an SEL survey for an elementary student who displayed aggressive behavior and threats against other children. The outcomes revealed that the child’s distress and anger originated from abandonment issues following the death of a grandparent. Understanding the source of the child's aggression and anger, the teacher shared the input with parents and worked in collaboration to overcome this trauma. Expatiate Communications introduced alternative behaviors for the child, allowing her to express anger verbally and through drawings. As a result of this necessary support, she found healthier ways to manage her anger and her physical aggression diminished.

This is just one example. The company has helped many students reduce instances of disciplinary action and negative behaviors by replacing them with positive actions. Leveraging decades of industry experience, Expatiate Communications’ team of school psychologists, special education teachers, speech-language pathologists, and speech-language pathology assistants continues to encourage teachers and students to work together to enhance classroom behavior and improve academic and social performance.