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Observe. Analyze. Improve.

Transforming the way you observe, track, and report data

What We Do

ObserverWare provide tools that help professionals more accurately and inclusively record and analyze direct observation data, leaving users more time to deliver excellent results to clients, organizations, and communities. 


Our state-of-the-art multi-platform tools are engineered to transform the way educators, psychologists, researchers, medical specialists, and business and industry professionals observe, track, and report data.

  • Substantially reduce time and cost of observation, evaluation, and reporting in classroom and professional practice settings
  • Greatly improve outcomes and productivity of professional educators, practicing psychologists, and behavior analysts
  • Significantly enhance the understanding of best practices for educators and professionals in training
  • Dramatically increase insight into how to improve challenging student and client behavior

“ObserverWare tools have proven invaluable to our ongoing efforts in discovering the causes of—and developing effective treatments for—a broad range of special education challenges. We could not have generated our vital base of knowledge without these direct observation tools.” 

Mark Shriver
The Munroe-Meyer Medical Center
Omaha Nebraska

Who We Are

A 23-year heritage dedicated to empowering and helping educators, psychologists, and professionals who work with families, children, and youth.


Formerly known as Educational Consulting, Inc., with products sold under the B.E.S.T. brand, we are the leader in delivering state of the art direct observation and analysis solutions to clients in the US and around the world. Over the years, we’ve been committed to developing user-friendly and time-efficient tools designed to collect, analyze, and report directly observable behaviors and events. 


Our industry-leading software and services have been
instrumental in supporting organizations in public and private education, psychology, medical, social science, and business and industry settings and helping them to establish best professional practices to deliver outstanding educational and therapeutic service. We are pleased to continue this tradition with our most recent line of products, which sets new standards of power, ease-of-use, and adaptability on all devices and platforms.

“Direct observation and immediate feedback are essential to students working in school settings—and ObserverWare tools helps these future professionals prepare for teaching practice. The tools are user-friendly and allow for time-efficient inclusive description of what teachers and students are actually doing in a classroom setting, allowing for immediate feedback and discovery of most effective professional practice.”

Brett Everhart
Lock Haven University
College of Education

Our Team

Our company was formed in the late 1980s with the desire to provide the most user friendly and time efficient software tools designed to enhance the professional activities of a wide range of education and psychological professionals, and to enhance the effectiveness of educational and psychological practice. 


Currently serving clientele throughout the world, our Company personnel include:


“We love ObserverWare direct observation and analysis tools! ObserverWare has reduced overhead associated with documenting student challenges and delivering effective instructional solutions. Without these tools, we would not be able to provide the data-based student and school wide solutions that enable our district to deliver exceptional service to the community.”

Amanda Adams
Washoe County, NV School District
School Psychology Department

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Tom Sharpe, M.S., Ed.D., BCBA, ESE
772-293-9184 (Dedicated Company Line)
702-974-1475 (Company Fax)
TomSharpe@ObserverWare.com

Tom Sharpe is a former Full Professor and Graduate Program Director for the Applied Behavior Analysis with Board Certification Program at Spalding University; and with a long history of similar positions during his tenure at multiple Carnegie I Research Institutions, including The University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Purdue University, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He draws from a wealth of varied professional experiences and activities in public and private school, athletic coaching, and university teaching settings; and from a long education, applied psychology, and social science research career in a variety of graduate programs at different Research extensive universities. Trained by many of the leading applied and experimental behavior analysts in the profession at Vanderbilt University and then West Virginia University, Tom has pursued academic work largely in the educational and therapeutic application of direct observation methodologies and in related computer-based tool development. As a function of his work in research and evaluation methods, he has authored over 150 refereed articles and book chapters in the respective areas of research methodology, professional preparation, interagency collaboration, and treatment development for therapeutic ends; has authored textbooks in the area of sequential behavior and behavior systems analysis; and is a regular contributor to the principles and practice of applied behavior analysis and systematic behavior change methods through conference and workshop presentations and a variety of consulting activities.


Tom has currently returned to primary practice with Positive Behavior Supports, Inc. (www.teampbs.com) in the South Florida area where he grew up. He also directs Educational Consulting, Inc., an international concern dedicated to the development and implementation of a variety of direct observation tools, methodology materials, and innovative treatment applications; and also providing a range of behavior and therapeutic services in the areas of mental health, social services, general education, and agency-based work. As a function of his ongoing work, Tom currently sits on many educational boards, most recent of which is Shining Futures, a not-for-profit entity building a school setting for underserved and developmentally challenged children, youth, and young adults. Tom’s approach is client centered, inductive, and thoroughly behavioral in practice; with emphasis on ongoing data supported methods to ensuring the primary objective of therapeutically improving the quality of the interpersonal, professional, and life skill domains of his clientele. Tom currently works with a range of clientele including young children, youth, young adults; and the adults and primary caregivers that provide ongoing services to those clientele.

 

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John Koperwas, BSc, Technical Director
647-704-0227 (Direct Line)
772-293-9184 (Dedicated Company Line)
JohnKoperwas@ObserverWare.com

John Koperwas has been a practicing software developer for the past 30 years working in Toronto, Canada providing leadership in real time software system development. After developing a variety of direct observation software systems designed to collect, record, and provide analysis of events in real time, John forged a research and development working relationship with Tom Sharpe for the purposes of forging a Company dedicated to those direct observation systems and with a web presence of www.skware.com. Known for their products under the BEST acronym (Behavior Evaluation Strategies and Taxonomies), this relationship culminated in the providing of direct observation and analysis tools over the past 25 years, and currently serves clients worldwide ranging from K-12 and special education programming, to teacher education programs in higher education, to  the growing behavior analysis and clinical psychology professional communities, to medical settings, to animal behavior research, and to organizational behavior management settings to name a few.

 

John is currently considered an innovative leader in the software development field, focusing on new, unique, and individualized applications for particular clientele with direct observation and analysis needs; and with a view toward use of the cloud and mobile devices as a platform for the immediate data storage, data analysis, and data reporting retrieval, in user friendly and informative ways to the benefit of the increased effectiveness and productivity of the Company’s growing client base.

 

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Tom Spino, Sales
561-800-2417 (Direct Line)
772-293-9184 (Dedicated Company Line)
TomSpino@ObserverWare.com

Tom Spino earned his Bachelor’s degree from the College of Wooster in Ohio. He then went on to a variety of sales positions with national and international corporate concerns and across a range of products, culminating in current accolades including “Top Ten Industry Sales Leaders” in support of his efforts as a consistently top producer. His expertise in interpersonal relationships have directed his dedicated professional activities for the last 20+ years to innovations in customer care and ongoing satisfaction with Company and Product relationships long after initial sales have been consummated. Tom’s ongoing professional efforts have also ensured the building of sales and marketing teams designed with customer satisfaction an ongoing priority for all involved.

Tom is currently considered an innovative leader in the sales field, helping his various clientele to grow and prosper through ongoing client care. Tom is able to quickly identify his client’s needs, develop a workable solution in relation to products and services offered, and implement a practical and cost effective plan of action with the client’s best professional interests of primary and ongoing focus. He looks forward to optimizing educational, therapeutic, and professional practice for all of those served by ObserverWare.