Seamless Education Associates, Inc. (SEA) developed a community partnership in Glynn County, Georgia (Brunswick, St. Simons Island, Sea Island) to create the Golden Isles Career Academy (GICA) as a charter school using the CEC model and ADDIE. To date, the partnership has raised $22 million in public and private funds to support this effort, performed a needs assessment, written and approved a charter, selected a site, and held a groundbreaking with Governor Perdue. SEA helped the partnership apply for a $3.2 million DTAE facility grant, which was awarded in November 2007. The State Board of Education approved GICA's charter on February 14, 2008, and the new 123,000 square foot facility opened in July 2009!
SEA is helping Floyd County Schools replicate CEC by developing Floyd County Schools College and Career Academy. Floyd County's charter was approved by the State Board of Education on January 10, 2008. SEA wrote the charter and the grant application for DTAE's $3.2 million facility grant, which was awarded by Lt. Governor Casey Cagle, State School Superintendent Kathy Cox, and DTAE Commissioner Ron Jackson in November 2007. Lt. Governor Cagle attended the ribbon cutting for FCSCCA on August 11, 2008.
SEA helped Houston County Schools build a community partnership to explore the CEC model. The partners completed an online needs assessment, are raising private funds, and were awarded a $3.1 million grant by the state of Georgia that SEA wrote.
SEA helped a partnership headed by Southeastern Technical College in Vidalia, Georgia form Georgia's first regional charter career academy: Southeastern Early College and Career Academy. Current partners include the school systems in Montomery, Toombs and Treutlen counties and Vidalia City Schools.
SEA helped the Savannah-Chatham County School System open its Woodville-Tompkins Technical Career Institute. SEA worked with the Superintendent's Career Education Advisory Council to collect needs data, develop additional curricula, develop marketing materials, and raise private funds.
