eSATS Ten-Year Road Map

Ten years is a short time for total transformationi of any industry, especially K-12 education.
Creating intellectual infrastructure and transforming schools will be on parallel paths. eSATSi system design is high level with many detailed aspects to be developed at the school level. The rapidly changing technologies and classroom methods are expected to produce 2016 schools that are quite different than the 2007 pilots. Here is the high level schedule:

• 2005 – SB1181 -- Introduced eSATS fully funded system design concept ($0)
• 2006 – SB1512i -- Established eSATS launch with ten year Task Force (high level governance and long term policy), middle school math pilot program and data-decision support system boost at ADEi (total appropriation, $5.5 million)
• 2007 - HB2742 -- Establshed state policy to conduct eLearningi transformation school by school with a grant fund. Pilot funding of $3-4 million if passed. Conduct statewide broadbandi capacity study within about 200 geographic communityi areas defined by school districts if passed and amended.
• 2008 – Launch eSATS intellectual infrastructure: Digital Curriculum Institute, Teacher eLearning Professional Development and Education Institute, broadband Initiative to all rural districts, laptop-projector-smart board-essential suite of software to all teachers, instructional system with formative assessmenti and Auditor General rule making. Fund 10 pilot eLearning Centered Schools. ($80 to $120 Million)
• 2009 - 2010 – Transform 200 eLearning centered schools and bring statewide infrastructure (both physical and intellectual) to full operation ($150 to $250 million a year)

Building Our Communities Along the Road

• 2009 – 2011 Accelerate transformation to 300 schools as cost savings start kicking in. ($300 - $400 million a year)
• 2012 – Celebrate Arizona Centennial with Arizona breaking into the second quartile of academically performing states with 300 schools participating
• 2013to 2016 – Continuously improve the eSATS System Design as Arizona based researchi delivers better eLearning solutions. Bring the number of schools in the system to 2000
• 2017 – Celebrate the final Arizona school choosing the 2016 eSATS model and Arizona moving into U.S. academic leadership. (Average $150 million a year as cost savings takeover.)

About the Author

Theodore C. Kraver Ph.D. President
azeLearning.net
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tkraver [at] qwest [dot] net