About Us
Lauren Semper Scott, Ph. D. is an education consultant with experience in curriculum design, instructional design, and testing and assessment. As a former Distance Learning Program Director, Dr. Scott is familiar with the administrative and pedagogical challenges of transitioning from traditional classroom instruction to various online and distance learning modalities and then returning to classroom instruction. This experience informs her work in online teaching and learning, professional development for teachers, and systems review and assessment for schools and school system stakeholders.
Parent Advocate
As the mother of an autistic young adult, Dr. Scott has spent over 18 years working with her daughter, schools, teachers, and administrators to ensure that her daughter was equipped to access the curriculum.
At each stage of her daughter’s journey, Dr. Scott designed resources or modified tools, tips, evaluated textbooks and supplemental resources and refined strategies for learners with different processing styles. Dr. Scott served as a volunteer after-school tutor of mathematics, reading, and reading comprehension and for students who struggle with fundamental skills (mathematics and reading/ reading comprehension). These resources were designed and developed using sound instructional design and insights from the parent perspective. Dr. Scott is particularly interested in how teachers reach all students and how students who learn differently are served by our teachers and schools both in and out of the classroom.
Curriculum Developer & Education Consultant
Dr. Scott holds graduate degrees in Training & Development and Organizational Leadership and Behavior and a Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language. She also holds a graduate certificate in Instructional Design. The theory and practice of these disciplines inform Dr. Scott’s approach to parent advocacy, development of teaching materials and the classroom and online teaching and learning experience.
Dr. Scott’s academic and professional experiences provide her with a multi-faceted, systems thinking lens to engage at the strategic and tactical levels of teaching and learning. Her dissertation work is most relevant to the teaching and testing critical thinking skills and the identification of effective practices in formative and summative assessment.
Dr. Scott believes that every child can learn. As teachers, parents, and administrators, it is our responsibility to find the gifts in each child and nurture the gifts to support learner success.