About eSATS

ORGANIZATIONAL ENTITY

eLearningi Systems for Arizona Teachers and Students Inc. (eSATSi) is a non-profit corporation that is operates in task team mode. Task team members are few, but our network of folks that pitch in to help is vast. Each member is an Arizona expert in crucial K-12 eLearning segment.

2007 TASK TEAM/BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Team Leader -- Ted Kraver – High tech designer - developer (jet engines, ram jets, rockets) and entrepreneur (biotech, bank software, graphic tablets, auto CVT, games-motion capture) now plying his trade in the civic arena.

Political Operative – Bob Rosenberg – Prior AT&T sales executive loves sausages and the Law, but is only fascinated by the law making process. Goes to the capital, talks with legislators, gives tesimony at hearings and better laws emerge.

K-12 Heart and Mind – Bobbie Kraver – First and second grade teacher; director of education for the gifted, testing and communityi schools, special education assistant principal, and juvenile corrections charter school superintendent , and eLearning industry association executive.

Broadbandi Zealot – Mike Keeling – Designer – implementer of AZ state government's nation leading IT system, President of Arizona Telecommunications and Information Council and Arizona broadband initiative leader.

K-12 eLearning Connection – Hank Stabler, Consultant to Arizona Department of Education, retired CIO of fast growing Peoria School District, instigator of Arizona Technology in Education Association, member of ISTE adn CoSN, President TLA Specialists Inc.

CONTACT
Theodore C. Kraver Ph.D.

Team Leader and President

eLearning System for Arizona Teachers and Students Inc.

225 West Orchid Lane Phoenix, AZ 85021

602-944-8557(d) www.azeLearning.org

SUPPORTERS

Our 2006 supreme supporter is Able Information Technology System, Brandon Ames President (www.ableinc.com), 480-477-0100. Last fall they created and delivered a grand upgrade in image, and collateral marketing materials like folders and business cards.

Our 2007 supreme supporter is Global Literacyi, Richard Brincefield, President (globalliteracy.info/home/). This spring Richard has funded Drupal experts to create our website and to be the website development manager.

A BIT OF HISTORY

A number of the eSATS team members came together in the 1970’s and early 1980’ to lead the advocacy for Arizona gifted education. After successful gifted legislationi with a mandate and funding they thought the job was done. With gifted programs in all Arizona school districts, the rewards of individualized student learning were expected to diffuse into all Arizona classrooms. Ten years later, not happened.

In the early 1990’s, team members were engaged in the Phoenix Futures Forumi and Arizona Strategic Plan for Economic Development. The use of learning technology emerged as a better horse to ride for transforming K-12 education. Learning/Researchi/Enterprise Institute, Arizona Telecommunications and Information Council, Arizona Software Association and the Arizona Learning Technology Partnership were formed and addressed this opportunity for a number of years. Meetingsi were held, statewide strategic plans were made.

Legislative advocacy resulted in wiring all the schools by the School Facilities Board, developing a million person Application Service Provider, and modernizing to one modern multimedia computer for eight students in 2000.

The team worked to develop the Governor Hull’s 1999 Arizona Plan for the New Economy in the eLearning hot team. They implemented a recommendation to create Greater Arizona eLearning Associationi GAZeL (www.gazel.org), an eLearning enterprise organization. With about 40 enterprises and $3 million in reviews, Arizona is one of the few cluster regions for the eLearning industry. This industry includes vendors, providers, and research labs for not only K-12 education, but for workforce, higher education, individual life span learners, and military simulation markets.

In 2003, Ted Kraver interviewed most of the GAZeL CEO’s and found that they wanted their cluster organization to address two issues. One was eLearning research sources to develop their emerging products to make them more effective. The other was to offer their support, talent, and knowledge to transform Arizona K-12 education and help them achieve the highest possible benefits from eLearning.

To respond to the research request, GAZeL developed a Research Committee with a solid membership and many activitiesi under the leadership of Dr. Magaret Martinez, (www.trainingplace.com) http://www.gazel.org/static/index.cfm?action=group&contentID=753)

Another team was contracted by the Institute of Defense Analysis and Department of Defense. Their task was to designed an eLearning research communities of practice portal that would facilitate the global growth and diffusion of research based eLearning technology and methods. The study/design .pdf report can be download “E-Learning Research Portal Study, 2005”

To address Arizona K-12 elearning eSATS was spun out as an independent design team to develop the Arizona wide initiative. The team quickly decided that there adequate imperitives had been pronouced and enough strategic plans were on the shelf. The missing tool was an Arizona systems design that focused on the learning nexus: the teacher and student. Taking only three months in 2003 the eSATS design team researched and created a systems design for transforming Arizona K-12 education. This design working document was revised in 2005 “Statewide Design for eLearning System for Arizona Teachers and Students” .pdf available for download.

In 2006 it was obvious we needed an eight page roadmap to communicate the 130 page design. The Arizona biotech ini tiaive had spent $300,000 on developing a splendid roadmap, so the eSATS team spent and afternoon dropping our infromation into their format. "B60625RoadMap" .pdf available for download.