Marilou Jewett

"This module represents a vital part of a quality management system," says Marilou Jewett, sales representative for Quality Workbench."Day-to-day improvements are made and documented, and this helps reduce job rework in an organization," she points out.

"The savings on the seminar tuition almost pays for the cost of renewing a maintenance agreement," says Marilou Jewett, seminar and events coordinator.

Marilou Jewett, customer representative for PQ Systems who works with schools to schedule Duncan's training, says that some districts are finding that grants are available to fund these sessions."The state may be willing to support individual districts or regional centers to provide this training," she says.

Sixth grade teacher Stephanie Setmire says she found it "very beneficial" having Sally Duncan model the short cycle assessment process."I took the in-service during the spring of the previous year, and didn't implement the use of assessments right away, so I had forgotten some of the information," she acknowledges.