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About Us
Grade Results® was started by people committed to the creative use of Internet technology to improve the practice of teaching.
Our senior executives are:
Suzanne McElyea Founder
Suzanne H. McElyea, CPA, graduated with a
BBA from Texas A&M University. She spent 23 years with Price
Waterhouse, now PricewaterhouseCoopers, initially in the
audit and finally in the Transaction Structuring Group. She
was at various times based in the Dallas, New York and
London offices, working in many states and countries on
various financial and structuring issues. In 2004, she
joined Socratic Learning, Inc. as its Chief Operating
Officer, growing the startup to over 450 instructors operating in
29 states in just 2 years.
Craig Ullman Founder
Mr.Ullman is the inventor of eSchool™ Online, one of the first
software suites for e-learning. eSchool was the first
commercial product that combined digitized video with the
automatic display of synchronous web pages. eSchool has
been used by many state departments of education (Georgia,
Texas, etc.), major school districts (Dallas, Houston, NYC,
etc.) and major educational publishers (McGraw-Hill and
Holt, Rinehart) to extend their initiatives to the Web using
dynamic combinations of multimedia with integrated
assessment. eSchool was acquired by Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich and is now the central offering of their
Classroom Connect division. In addition to his experiences
in interactive multimedia content creation and product
development, Mr. Ullman holds five patents on enhanced media
and the Internet, and one on Interactive Television.
Mr. Ullman is also a columnist on educational technology for the
United States Distance Learning Association's magazine
Journal, and has been published frequently in
Techlearning.com. He co-wrote an academic paper, “Course
Management Systems and the Reinvention of Instruction” for
T.H.E. Journal.
Mr. Ullman received a B.A. in English and
Political Science from Bucknell University, and a Master of
Fine Arts in English from Brown University.
Bill Diggins Executive Vice President
William Diggins has more than
thirty years experience in business consulting, media
production, and executive management, working in a wide
variety of industries in the United States, South America,
Europe, and Asia. He is currently President of Performance
Media & Technology, which provides online professional
development for clients including McGraw Hill, South Alabama
University and the State of Alabama. He is the former Senior
Vice President of ACTV, Inc., managing the operations and
implementation of eSchool® Online, the leading provider of
customized, online, professional development training for
the K-12 education market. He conducted large-scale projects
with school districts, states, and publishers to create
hundreds of innovative, online programs in a variety of
curricular areas. As a result of product quality, technical
support, and proactive customer communication, nearly all
projects resulted in repeat business.
David Thomas Vice President of Business Development
David Thomas has over 15 years experience in K-12 and Post Secondary Education. David served for over 14 years as a public school Board member. During his tenure, David served as Chairman of The National School Boards Association, Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE); he also served on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Association of School Boards, the Alabama Governors Commission on Education and Co-Chairperson Governors Committee on Student Assessment and Accountability. David’s expertise in instructional design and training development prepared him to Chair the CUBE national task force on Urban Student Achievement and lead the Division of Adult Education and Workforce Development at Bishop State College as its director.
David has a BA in History from the University of Alabama, and MA in History from the University of South Alabama, and is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Northcentral University specializing in Educational Leadership and Training Development.
Mitchell Rabinowitz Chief Educational Advisor
Mitchell Rabinowitz received his
Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego in
1982, where he specialized in cognitive and developmental
psychology. After graduation he spent two years as a
University of Pittsburgh post-doctoral fellow at the
Learning Research and Development Center. His first
academic position was at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, where he was an assistant professor in the College
of Education. In 1986, he was named a Spencer Fellow by the
National Academy of Education. In 1988, he moved to the
Graduate School of Education at Fordham University, where he
currently is a professor and the director of the Center for
Technology in Education. His research interests center
around the issues of the acquisition of cognitive skills,
knowledge representation, instructional design, technology
and instruction and memory and memory development.
Susan Imholz Educational Advisor
Susan Imholz, Ph.D., is an education and information technology consultant
with a focus on using technology as an expressive and creative medium. She
is the former Associate Director of the Institute for Learning Technologies
at Teachers College, Columbia University. Susan received her BA from
Antioch College in Art and Psychology, an MA from Lesley College in Art
Therapy, and her Ph.D. in Art and Media Technology from M.I.T. She is a
published author on issues of: the design of informal learning environments;
ILS data management services and research problems; and the application of
the expressive arts to education pedagogy.
David E.
Lee, Ed.D. Educational Advisor
David Lee is a member of
The University of Southern Mississippi's Educational
Leadership and Research Department. With more than thirty
years experience as an educator, he has served as a teacher,
coach, principal at all grade levels, superintendent of
schools, Deputy State Superintendent, and is presently a
school board member. He has published a book and completed a
cassette series on motivational leadership, and is currently
completing his second book with world-renown researcher Dr.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
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