Tier 1 Overview
The goal of this service is to assist publishers of educational resources in turning their current offering(s) into curriculum products that are tuned to the needs of K-12 instruction. The Tier One approach is a high-level exploration of the feasibility of migrating existing product(s) to the classroom and an outline of necessary product modifications to make this transition.
Deliverables
All deliverables will be presented in the form of PowerPoint, Word, or Excel.
The goal of this service is to assist publishers of educational resources in turning their current offering(s) into curriculum products that are tuned to the needs of K-12 instruction. The Tier One approach is a high-level exploration of the feasibility of migrating existing product(s) to the classroom and an outline of necessary product modifications to make this transition.
Deliverables
- Evaluation of client’s products according to curricular and pedagogical relevance, potential grade application and course appropriateness. This will be presented in the context of market needs and trends.
- Development of one high-level product concept and the associated modifications to existing product to make it suitable for the classroom.
- Analysis of company strengths in its ability to modify existing offering to meet curricular needs.
- Identification of attributes of target customers and customers’ needs for modified product concept.
All deliverables will be presented in the form of PowerPoint, Word, or Excel.
Tier 2 Overview
The goal of this service is to assist publishers of educational resources in turning their current offering(s) into curriculum products that are tuned to the needs of K-12 instruction. The Tier Two approach is an analysis of the feasibility of migrating existing product(s) to the classroom, an outline of necessary product modifications to make this transition, and market analysis including a competitive analysis, funding analysis, market size estimate and national standards match.
Deliverables
All deliverables will be presented in the form of PowerPoint, Word, or Excel.
The goal of this service is to assist publishers of educational resources in turning their current offering(s) into curriculum products that are tuned to the needs of K-12 instruction. The Tier Two approach is an analysis of the feasibility of migrating existing product(s) to the classroom, an outline of necessary product modifications to make this transition, and market analysis including a competitive analysis, funding analysis, market size estimate and national standards match.
Deliverables
- Evaluation of client’s products according to curricular and pedagogical relevance, potential grade application and course appropriateness. This will be presented in the context of market needs and trends.
- Development of one high-level product concept and the associated modifications to existing product to make it suitable for the classroom.
- Analysis of company strengths in its ability to modify existing offering to meet curricular needs.
- Identification of attributes of target customers and customers’ needs for modified product concept.
- High-level competitive analysis of up to three potential competitors for the modified product idea.
- Market size estimation based on available industry research.
- High-level match of modified product to national standards, as appropriate. This may include references to both content area and technology standards.
- High-level reference to funding trends (recognizing the limitations of these being ancillary materials) for modified product, as appropriate.
All deliverables will be presented in the form of PowerPoint, Word, or Excel.
Tier 3 Overview
The goal of this service is to assist publishers of educational resources in turning their current offering(s) into curriculum products that are tuned to the needs of K-12 instruction. The Tier Three approach provides a business case for the modified product including an analysis of the feasibility of migrating existing product(s) to the classroom, a detailed outline of necessary product modifications to make this transition, market analysis and financial analysis to help evaluate the opportunity.
Deliverables
All deliverables will be presented in the form of PowerPoint, Word, or Excel.
The goal of this service is to assist publishers of educational resources in turning their current offering(s) into curriculum products that are tuned to the needs of K-12 instruction. The Tier Three approach provides a business case for the modified product including an analysis of the feasibility of migrating existing product(s) to the classroom, a detailed outline of necessary product modifications to make this transition, market analysis and financial analysis to help evaluate the opportunity.
Deliverables
- Evaluation of client’s products according to curricular and pedagogical relevance, potential grade application and course appropriateness. This will be presented in the context of market needs and trends.
- Development of one high-level product concept and the associated modifications to existing product to make it suitable for the classroom.
- Analysis of company strengths in its ability to modify existing offering to meet curricular needs.
- Identification of attributes of target customers and customers’ needs for modified product concept.
- High-level competitive analysis of up to three potential competitors for the modified product idea.
- Market size estimation based on available industry research.
- High-level match of modified product to national standards, as appropriate. This may include references to both content area and technology standards.
- High-level reference to funding trends (recognizing the limitations of these being ancillary materials) for modified product, as appropriate.
- More detailed description of modified product concept including how, where and why product fits into existing market needs.
- Preliminary pricing and revenue estimates.
- Analysis of funding options.
- Identify up to three basal materials that align with the new product concept.
All deliverables will be presented in the form of PowerPoint, Word, or Excel.

