Welcome to Make the Grade!

We offer a variety of support solutions for education and business including interactive whiteboard professional development for teachers; virtual & augmented reality integration consulting and planning aimed at reaching the K-12, higher education, corporate, healthcare, & manufacturing industries; professional training for end-users for your customized software and/or hardware applications; and social media marketing, sales, and coordination for seminars, workshops & trade shows. Visit one of our pages to learn more! With our assistance, your company will thrive and meet the demand of on-time project delivery.

Our goal is to help educators, training providers, Audio Visual pros, established or start-up healthcare, business, and non-profit solution providers to accelerate growth.

We’ll meet the needs of online learning! We’re happy to provide online training opportunities for staff and clients to get up-to-speed on immersive technology use.

Training Solutions

Pedagogically sound on-site and online training to improve confidence and learner outcomes.

Partnerships Will Enable You to Do What You Do Best

We partner with AV pros to maximize customer satisfaction before, during, and after the sale.

Interactive Whiteboard Training Center News

Interested in becoming a Make the Grade certified trainer? Make the Grade Training Solutions is proud to be the Midwest’s leading training center.

Cathy presented a SMART Board Level 1 training to my faculty. The SMART Board training received the highest evaluation ratings from my staff out of all of the professional development sessions they participated in during the school year. Cathy's training was thorough, interactive, and engaging. Cathy shared hundreds of SMART Board lesson planning resources with the teachers... This was our first year having SMART Boards, and we wouldn't have survived it without Cathy! I highly recommend her. Top Qualities: Great Results, Personable, Expert.

— Melissa Fleming, Assistant Principal, Innovations High School, Chicago, Illinois,

Cathy was outstanding and had excellent knowledge of content... she presented the material in an orderly fashion. Cathy encouraged excellent discussion in class. I personally have never felt so comfortable contributing in a class.

— Carol J., participant in Bullying & Cyber Bullying: An Educator’s Toolbox for Prevention and intervention,

Awesome training! Didn’t spend too much time on one topic, covered a lot in short amount of time but was still thorough! Really enjoyed the 3 hours & walking away with a lot of new knowledge.

— SMART beginner training participant, School Association for Special Education in DuPage County (SASED),

“…Loved Cathy’s ability to be flexible and adaptable to the workshop participants’ needs. Wonderful presenter. Wealth of information, not only on SMART but also as an educator—pedagogically sound!

— Dina Louck, teacher, Santa Fe Public Schools, SMART Certified Trainer event, New Mexico,

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Welcome to Make the Grade!

Our goal is to help educators, training providers, Audio Visual pros, established or start-up healthcare, business, and non-profit solution providers to accelerate growth.

We’ll meet the needs of online learning! We’re happy to provide online training opportunities for staff and clients to get up-to-speed on immersive technology use.