Sato Education Consulting LLC is a small woman-owned business dedicated to answering the following questions with information that parents and educators can put to use right away:
(1) What works? (2) For whom? (3) How do we know?
The information provided through consultation and training, or through instructional materials and resources, is practical, actionable, and supported with evidence of effectiveness.
Whether you are a parent or guardian, a classroom teacher or school administrator, a member of a state department of education, or a member of a foreign ministry of education, Sato Education Consulting LLC, with its well-established research-to-practice expertise, takes the guesswork out of determining what can support learning and help in the attainment of education goals.
Our Work
Recent and current consulting work include: member of Technical Advisory Committees for state departments of education and educational organizations; peer reviewer of state assessment systems for the U.S. Department of Education; management and development of English language proficiency standards for English learners with significant cognitive disabilities; facilitation and development of a Theory of Action, Logic Model, and technical manual for English language development programs and assessment; evaluation of accommodations for multi-lingual learners; technical advisor to state departments of education and education agencies; linguistic modification and formative assessment professional development workshops; meeting facilitation; consultation on research strategy and research study design; and grant writing.
Generally the work we engage in includes:
Research-based Design and Development
- Academic content standards
- English language proficiency standards
- Curricula
- Assessments
- Theories of action and frameworks for development and implementation
- Programs and materials for special student populations (e.g., multi-lingual learners, students with disabilities, English learners with the most significant cognitive disabilities)
Research and Evaluation
- Case studies, cognitive interviews, alignment and linking studies, survey research, randomized controlled trials
- Product and program evaluation
- Efficacy evaluation
- Data analysis
- Report writing
Management, Training, and Resource Development
- Professional development and training for parents, teachers, administrators, researchers, and members of the community
- Meeting facilitation
- Public speaking on education issues
- Project management
- Grant writing
Our CEO and Chief Research Scientist
Edynn Y. Sato, Ph.D., the company’s CEO and Chief Research Scientist, has over 30 years of experience in education research, development, and consultation. She is a respected authority on student learning, instruction, and assessment, particularly of culturally and linguistically diverse learners (e.g., multi-lingual learners) and students with disabilities. Her practical, research-supported approaches to developing and putting into practice various learning, instructional, and assessment products and services has helped educators and students across numerous states in the U.S. as well as internationally.
Dr. Sato has been a leader in and advisor to numerous organizations as well as a valued collaborator with agencies including WestEd, the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA, the Council of the Great City Schools, Pearson, Curriculum Associates, LeapFrog, and CTB/McGraw-Hill. Her work has impacted practice and policy and has addressed the needs of students and educators, local and state education agencies, the federal government, and foreign ministries of education. Her work includes: substantive contribution to the development of California’s English Language Development Standards (adopted in 2012); oversight of or advisor to the development of several state accountability assessments in English language arts, Mathematics, and English language development; substantive contribution to the development of the draft framework for the PISA 2018 Global Competence domain; and co-editing a book on multilingual learners and academic literacies. Dr. Sato’s work has focused on learning and assessment that is accessible, equitable, and fair. She served as a chair of the Diversity Issues in Testing Committee for the National Council on Measurement in Education, is an experienced Peer Reviewer of State Assessments for the U.S. Department of Education, provided a briefing to White House, Senate, and House of Representative staff on English language learner research and policy implications, was a lecturer at San Jose State University, teaching courses on Evaluation and Psychological Foundations to single-subject teacher credential candidates in the university’s College of Education, and served as principal investigator or project director on a number of successful federally-funded projects and multi-million dollar education contracts that primarily focused on serving the needs of multilingual learners and students with disabilities. Over her more than 30 years in education, Dr. Sato has presented and published numerous papers and participated on many national and international panels.
Dr. Sato earned her Bachelors degree from Santa Clara University and her Masters degree and doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
For more information about Dr. Sato, please visit her LinkedIn page at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edynn-sato-ph-d-78047b123/
Our Blogs and Podcasts
We run a related site, edblogcast.com. It’s just a click away at http://edblogcast.com. We address important education issues, talking about the what? the so what? and the what next? Our blogs and podcasts are for people who want useful research-based information to help their own or someone else’s learning. Our expertise in and experience with educational practice and policy makes edblogcast.com a discerning source of educational information—at edblogcast.com, we pay attention to the research evidence that supports the information we share, and we are committed to sharing information that is timely and practical.
Our Critical Friends
Sato Education Consulting LLC benefits from a network of critical friends with deep expertise and decades of experience in education. Our critical friends are involved in reviewing, commenting on, and writing posts on this website.
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