Center for An Educated Georgia - CEG is a non-profit that helps stakeholders in public, private, and home-based schools understand and address the greatest needs in educating Georgia’s children. Their website is jam-packed with excellent resource information.

Jay P. Greene's Blog - Jay P. Greene is the endowed professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is an expert on charter schools, innovation, accountability, and education reform. SEA refers to Greene's research and writings frequently.

December 4, 2008 Announcement from Georgia Lt. Governor Casey Cagle about the 2008 Charter Career Academy grants. SEA wrote two of the six winning grant applications and helping each partnership prepare and present as finalists in October at the Atlanta headquarters of the Technical College System of Georgia (PDF).

December 9, 2008 WMAZ-TV (Macon) interview with Houston County School Superintendent David Carpenter.

December 7, 2008 Macon Telegraph editorial about the "win-win" nature of Houston County's charter Career Academy.

December 5, 2008 Macon Telegraph story about Houston County's partnership receiving the grant from the Lt. Governor and the college system. SEA wrote Houston's grant application and helped the partnership present as a finalist in October at the Atlanta headquarters of the Technical College System of Georgia.

Russ Moore's May 31, 2007 Presentation at the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Hot Topic Forum on Transforming Atlanta's High Schools - "National Trends in Workforce Development and Public Education" (15MB mp3 - 15:26). Also linked on WGBH Forum Network with audio, video and mp3.

Remarks by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, Glynn County Commission Chairman Tony Thaw, and Representative Jerry Keen at the Groundbreaking of Golden Isles Career Academy, May 15, 2007 at the Brunswick-McBride Industrial Park, Brunswick, Georgia. (8MB mp3 - 9:10)

Russ Moore's April 25, 2007 Presentation at the National Charter School Conference in Albuquerque, NM - "Advocacy: How to Get What You Want Without Becoming a Bully" (6MB mp3 - 6:16) (Powerpoint) (PDF)

Russ Moore's January 26, 2007 Presentation at the Georgia Charter School Association Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA - "Socrates Meets NCLBees: What is the Purpose of Education?" (10 MB Powerpoint)

Central Educational Center

CEC is the first public school in America created and governed using the ADDIE process "to ensure a viable 21st century workforce." CEC received a dissemination grant in 2004 to develop a replication model that has since been used in Georgia to start nine charter career academies. SEA specializes in helping interested community partnerships adopt this model and use ADDIE to replicate CEC.

• Article about CEC's founding by former CEC CEO Russ Moore
• Cover Story from US Department of Education newsletter, The Achiever
• Model Schools Conference national presentation (right click and select "Save Target As" to download)
• Powerpoint and Word documents about CEC from US Department of Education Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) website (right click each link and select "Save Target As" to download, or click on OVAE link and navigate to "Central Educational Center" links near bottom of page)
• "Job Skills Center Raises Bar" AJC story

SEA Founder Russ Moore

Russ Moore has served in the public and private sectors for more than 25 years. In the public sector, he has served Georgia in the Office of the Governor, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the former Department of Industry, Trade and Tourism. In the private sector, he has been Vice President of Marketing and Development for Education Networks of America (Nashville, Tennessee), a TV and media producer for national networks and Fortune 500 companies, and he has started and run several businesses. He has a M. Ed. in Education Administration and Supervision with a focus in Business from Arizona State University.

• February 2005 Testimony before the Congress (pdf)
  Webstreamed Video and Powerpoint - US Department of Education/Preparing America's Future High School Initiative
• June 2005 Column: "Success Beyond College Prep" - a response to Newsweek cover story on "America's Best High Schools"
• October 2005 Column: "What's Wrong With Education"
  

ADDIE and Dr. Joe Harless

Joe Harless wrote The Eden Conspiracy: Educating for Accomplished Citizenship and chaired the steering committee that created Central Educational Center.

Joe Harless has been called "the world’s first and foremost leader in the field of Performance Technology." He is a member of the prestigious Human Resources Development Hall of Fame. Often referred to as the "trainer's trainer," Joe Harless has received the coveted Member for Life award from the National Society for Performance and Instruction (now the International Society for Performance Improvement). Joe Harless is the author of the acclaimed Accomplishment-Based Curriculum Development System (ABCD) that has been installed in the educational departments of numerous organizations in the U.S. and Canada. The ABCD System is widely regarded as state-of-the-art in instructional development. He has introduced numerous works concerning application of psychology to the improvement of performance. His book "The Eden Conspiracy" presents methodologies to cause dramatic improvement in public education. a common-sense approach for local educational reform by one of the nation’s leading experts in human development.

For more than 30 years Joe Harless headed the Harless Performance Guild, a network of organizations and consultants who use his concepts and procedures to help business, industry, and the military improve the performance of their employees. He is generally recognized as one of the founders of the relatively new field of Human Performance Technology.

(Thanks to Doug Mead for the above commentary about Joe.)

January 30, 2007 remarks by U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (19MB wav)(text excerpt)(XML/Podcast)

Secretary Spellings spoke in Atlanta at a luncheon put on by the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. In her remarks, Spellings referenced a charter school named Tech High and called it "a proven model that works." Tech High followed key concepts of the ADDIE model in its development and today offers students in high school seamless access to college courses. Russ Moore and others at Central Educational Center helped Tech High's founders secure critical startup financing from private sector donors.

Notice also the connection our nation's Secretary of Education makes between education and economic development! That connection is what "Seamless Education" is all about!