About Us

IDE Corp. – Innovative Designs for Education – is a NJ-based, MWBE-certified educational consulting firm partnering with educational organizations to increase student achievement and position students to thrive in their future college and career paths. IDE Corp. is nationally known for creating the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom™ framework of instruction. These student-driven classrooms are characterized by increased student engagement, high academic rigor, and increased student responsibility for learning, including an emphasis on executive function, resulting in higher academic achievement. The intent is to move beyond student engagement to empowerment and, ultimately, efficacy -- where students can identify a problem, develop a plan for solving it, and meet with success. IDE Corp. President, Dr. Nancy Sulla, has authored five books related to this work, published by Routledge:

• Building Executive Function: The Missing Link to Student Achievement

• Students Taking Charge in Grades K-5: Inside the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom

• Students Taking Charge in Grades 6-12: Inside the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom

• Students Taking Charge Implementation Guide for Leaders: Inside the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom

• It’s Not What You Teach, But How: 7 Insights to Making the CCSS Work for You

Unlike most professional development that provides teachers with strategies to incorporate into their existing instructional repertoire, IDE Corp. consultants provide customized professional development experiences that cause teachers to rethink all aspects of their classrooms, building classroom environments that maximize academic rigor and the differentiation needed to achieve success. Through carefully structured workshops, IDE Corp. consultants inspire teachers to rethink the roles of both teacher and student in the classroom. Through follow-up coaching, consultants provide teachers with just-in-time support as they take steps to reinvent their approach to teaching. Existing initiatives and adopted instructional resources are melded into the professional development so that teachers see their current experience with IDE Corp. as unifying and complementary to their experiences thus far. IDE Corp. consultants design workshops to be differentiated, including modeling the power of executive function in raising student achievement and, to the extent technology is available in the district’s classrooms, to model technology infusion. Our focus is on moving beyond what Ron Heifetz refers to as Technical Change to Adaptive Change.

IDE Corp. consultants must pass through a rigorous interview process to be named as a member of Team IDE. All of our consultants possess a Master’s degree or higher and have an average of fourteen years experience in the field of education. Our consultants possess a breadth of knowledge about instruction and the field of education; they engage in continual professional development through monthly “think tank” meetings, monthly book discussions and analyses, and participation in a reflective learning community.

IDE Corp. consultants have been providing consulting and professional development services to schools since 1997. The company is headquartered in Ramsey, New Jersey and has an office in Naples, Florida.

In January of 2019, Dr. Sulla launched EdQuiddity Inc to provide virtual products and services. The word quiddity means “your essence or your whatness;” so we provide education for your whatness!

The consultants of IDE Corp. have teamed up with the EdQuiddity ThinkTank to provide both in-person and remote consulting services to schools and organizations.