About Terry Schmitz

Terry Schmitz is the founder and owner of The Conover Company. Terry has been involved in the development of assessments for both education and corporations for over 30 years. He has developed hundreds of job-specific assessment systems that link to skill building systems.

Stress Management & Multi-Tiered System of Supports

Mulit-Tiered System of Supports or MTSS is a term used to describe an evidence-based model of schooling that uses data-based problem solving to integrate academic and behavioral instruction and intervention (Florida’s MTSS Project). This definition brings together the works of academic instruction and behavioral intervention. This movement is catching on [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:26-05:00August 5th, 2013|Education, Emotional Intelligence|Comments Off on Stress Management & Multi-Tiered System of Supports

Commitment Ethic and Multi-Tiered System of Supports

This is the ninth step in our Success Profiler’s Personal Skills Map pyramid. Commitment ethic is a deeply held belief that once you have agreed to do something you must do it until it is finished. A strong commitment ethic leads to success. For most educators it is easy to [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:27-05:00July 30th, 2013|Education|Comments Off on Commitment Ethic and Multi-Tiered System of Supports

Leadership and Multi-Tiered System of Supports

For many years, we at The Conover Company have grouped sales orientation with leadership. The two are fundamentally the same. Leadership is the ability to clearly express to others your vision or ideas about how to do something, get them to accept and do it on their own. Sales orientation [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:27-05:00July 12th, 2013|Education, Emotional Intelligence|Comments Off on Leadership and Multi-Tiered System of Supports

Time Management and Multi-Tiered System of Supports

Time Management is the seventh skill on our Success Profiler social/emotional pyramid. Time management is making sure that your actions help you to finish things you have to do. The biggest task facing most of us today is to improve productivity. This is true for your students as well. Learning [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:27-05:00June 19th, 2013|Education, Emotional Intelligence|Comments Off on Time Management and Multi-Tiered System of Supports

Decision Making and Multi-Tiered System of Supports

The sixth step in our Success Profiler social/emotional pyramid is Decision Making. It is important to note that decision making is a process that follows problem solving. Decision making is using problem solving skills to discover a course of action that will most likely achieve the results you want. Decision [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:27-05:00May 29th, 2013|Education, Emotional Intelligence|Comments Off on Decision Making and Multi-Tiered System of Supports

Drive Strength/Motivation & Multi-Tiered System of Supports

Drive strength/motivation is the skill of learning, understanding, and using your desire to reach school, work and personal goals. Motivation is the reason and the drive that makes someone do something. Motivation is the fifth key social/emotional skill in our Success Profiler’s Personal Skills Map and a key to solid [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:27-05:00May 3rd, 2013|Education|Comments Off on Drive Strength/Motivation & Multi-Tiered System of Supports

A ‘Free’ Interest Inventory Isn’t Free

Many of our new customers tell us that before they began using our Conover Online MECA® Interest Indicator they were using free print programs to help meet the assessment requirements for Indicator 13.  These “free” assessment tools look great on the surface—after all, they are free.  But, a closer look [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:27-05:00April 18th, 2013|Career Assessment, Education|Comments Off on A ‘Free’ Interest Inventory Isn’t Free

Empathy & Multi-Tiered System of Supports

Empathy is the fourth building block on our social/emotional pyramid that is measured by the Success Profiler’s Personal Skills Map. Empathy is one of the more critical characteristics in our social/emotional pyramid. Without empathy, emotional intelligence is simply not possible. Empathy is also a critical skill needed in MTSS.   Multi-Tiered [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:27-05:00April 16th, 2013|Education, Emotional Intelligence|Comments Off on Empathy & Multi-Tiered System of Supports

Will Common Core Standards Drive At-Risk Students Away?

We Think So!!! A recent article in The Council for Exceptional Children Smartbrief on March 14, 2013, entitled Math Teachers Strive to Bring Core to At-Risk Students discussed how many math teachers feel about teaching core standards to their at-risk student population. These new standards for the middle schools focus [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:27-05:00March 28th, 2013|Career Assessment, Education|Comments Off on Will Common Core Standards Drive At-Risk Students Away?

Interpersonal Awareness & Multi-Tiered System of Supports

Multi-tiered system of supports or MTSS is a term used to describe an evidence-based model of schooling that uses data-based problem solving to integrate academic and behavioral instruction and intervention (Florida’s MTSS Project). MTSS is the combination of Response To Intervention or RTI with Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports or [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:27-05:00March 21st, 2013|Education|Comments Off on Interpersonal Awareness & Multi-Tiered System of Supports
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