About Us

School Success Online is the business entity that was formed to market and distribute the online assessments for the ESSP and SSP. The company is the result of a collaborative NIDA Grant project that was obtained by Flying Bridge Technologies, Inc. and the research team at The School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

Flying Bridge Technologies, Inc. is a web-based interactive media company who specializes in designing and developing custom web sites, building internet based applications and providing search marketing and search engine optimization services. The company was founded in 1998 and has grown to serve hundreds of clients nationally including Britax, IRWIN Tools, UNC Chapel Hill, Ingersoll Rand, Meineke, U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Marines. The company is composed of internet and interactive media professionals dedicated to the application of their talents and expertise to the mission and goals of its clients.

 

Their role in the development of School Success Online was to design and develop the online surveys based on the work of the research team who created the original SSP and ESSP assessments. Along with creating the survey interface which is used by those completing the surveys, Flying Bridge developed the online reporting system which provides instantaneous results and reports to the administrators.

 

Dr. Gary Bowen is a Kenan Distinguished Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Bowen is responsible for the research and development of the SSP and most recenty for his work in developing the SSP-LO survey, He is a co-director on the for the SSO project.

 

Dr. Natasha Bowen is the leading researcher and director of the ESSP project and a co-director of the SSO project. She has a BA from Johns Hopkins University, an MIS from Claremont Graduate School, and MSW from UNC-Chapel Hill and a PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill.

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Michael Kelly, President
2709 Water Ridge Parkway, Suite 480
Charlotte, North Carolina 28217
704-357-8011
866-668-8649 (Toll-free)
mkelly@flyingbridge.net

 

History

The School Success Profile surveys have been in use for over 10 years. During this time the survey have been administered to nearly 50,000 students in nearly 1,000 schools and youth-serving agencies. These assessments address students’ beliefs about their social environment—neighborhoods, schools, friends, and families—and about their own physical and psychological health and school performance. The decision to assess multiple aspects of the student’s social environment came from the ecological theory that states that the current performance is directly related to the characteristics of the major environments of the child.

 

The School Success Profile is based on the research of, and developed by Dr. Gary Bowen, Ph.D. of UNC-CH and Dr. Jack Richman, Ph.D. The development, psychometric testing, and use of these assessment tools have been supported by a series of grants from the BellSouth Foundation, from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, from the William T. Grant Foundation, and from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

 

The Elementary School Success Profile was developed under the leadership of Dr. Natasha Bowen, Ph.D., MSW. The project was initiated based on requests from practitioners of the SSP for a comparable survey that could be used with younger students. This assessment tool would allow school practitioners to identify problems that can lead to school failure and behavior problems. Armed with this information, they would be able to put into place proactive and preventative measures. This online tool was developed with Funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Strowd Roses Foundation, and Armfield Reeves Innovation Grants and a partnership with Flying Bridge Technologies.