Oates Associates
Oates Associates
BOYNTON BEACH, FL
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What We Do
Oates Associates is a consulting firm with experienced staffers who help companies connect with educators to procure and use their products.
We help you (or your clients) find the funding sources for your products and services, too, through workshops, webinars, documents tailored to funding YOUR product, and more.
Staffers can create marketing and communications plans, fresh sales strategies, write, give webinars and workshops, keynote conferences, and provide staff development in the intersection of technology, education, and school reform.
Once we all get past Covid-19, we can help you create a "dining and dialog" event with one of your happy customers speaking to colleagues at a conference add-on event...as breakfast, afternoon cookie break or lunch, if dinner isn't in your budget.
With special expertise in communications, we research and write articles, books, in-depth reports and monographs, instructional manuals, content for websites and social media. We have become adept with social media, including Twitter and online communities of practice, to increase awareness and branding of products for clients and communication with their users and potential purchasers. We especially encourage listening to potential clients and current users to get ideas for improving and developing better educational products.
Let us help your company make the most of conference experiences with our powerful engagement strategies for before and after the conference and our help with speaker placement. We can coach your power users into becoming power presenters at conferences and leverage that for wider visibility for your ed tech products and services.
Successful projects have been conducted for the U.S. Postal Service (touched 2 million students), BBN, Scholastic, Microsoft, MDR, NEA, Agency for Instructional Technology, AOL, multiple textbook publishers and others. Technology policy and implementation issues are specialities, including development of school district ed tech plans and policies. Staff can create in-depth reports or books and design or conduct evaluation studies.
Companies who need a minority consultant or someone with bilingual expertise can tap one of our associates for a single day of feedback, for a conference gig in a booth, or for ongoing, part-time assistance. Our associates have experience in teaching all grades, special education, gifted, English language learners, and include large district and state department of education work. Several have also been university professors teaching both undergrads and graduate students.
Rita Oates, Ph.D.
Working on projects with:
Wendy Weiler, Weiler Associates
Dr. Paula Love, RFPmatch.com
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Presenting: Finding the Funding, Douglas Stewart conference in VirBELA
2 pm ET, Thursday, July 23, 2020
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Recent press coverage:
One More Thing for Educators to Do: Teach Parents About Proper Use of Technology
June 2019, Education Week
Interview by EduTech Guys at FETC 2019
January 2019
FUNecole: Social-Emotional Learning Meets Computer Science and Digital Literacy
November 2018, Education Week
Oates Associates
BOYNTON BEACH, FL