What are the Benefits of LINKS™?

In addition to the many general benefits of the LINKS system, there are specific benefits to students, teachers, and school districts.

• Cost Effectiveness: We thoroughly understand the problem before we develop your solution, thereby saving you both time and money.
• Confidentiality: We adhere to a strict code of customer confidentiality when servicing your needs.
• Experience: Our professional staff has over 200 years of combined experience as diagnosticians, clinicians, and teachers in both regular and special education
• Flexibility: We work with you and your organization to meet your needs and time frames.
• Innovation: We've developed state-of-the-art proprietary templates that link the teaching methodology with the curriculum.
• Quality: 100% money back guarantee, if you are not completely satisfied with any of our products.
• Consistency: LINKS™ Metacognitive Strategies provide consistent instructional practice across all content areas and grade levels.
• Inspiration: Our staff will inspire and emotionally support a mature staff through systemic change.
• Stability: EPSI has been providing its customers with research-based staff development programs since 1985.

Student Benefits

• Learn metacognitive strategies and independently select, employ, monitor, evaluate the strategy selected.
• Understand that strategies needed to read literature differ from those for textbooks.
• Build students' confidence in their abilities and skills.
• Develop test taking skills and use a combination of pre-writing organizers to formulate structured responses to open-response questions on state-mandated assessments.

Teacher Benefits

• Powerful tools to integrate teaching metacognitive strategies within classroom instruction.
• Strategies for differentiating instruction in heterogeneous settings.
• Content Area Reading Inventories to assess comprehension in textbook and literature.
• Models for designing open-response questions with content rubrics.

District Benefits

• Help all students become independent learners.
• Teachers are energized and confident with their newly learned skill set.
• Ensures consistency in instructional and assessment practice in the school/district.
• Provides teachers with cost-effective tools for teaching high-level content to all students.