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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, CEO
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, COO
Mr.Ullman is the inventor of eSchoolT 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 in
2004. In addition to his experiences in interactive multimedia content
creation and product development, Mr. Ullman holds seven patents on enhanced
media and the Internet, and one on Interactive Television.
Mr. Ullman has written numerous columns 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.
Matti Prima, Executive Vice President
Mr. Prima is the former President of the Peoples Publishing Group, where he
hired and managed a 50 member sales force and established the company's
licensing program for international as well as national sales. Prior to his
time at Peoples, Mr. Prima was Vice President of Finance at Siegel & Gale,
Inc., responsible for the financial management of four divisions of the
company. Before his experience at Siegel & Gale, Mr. Prima was a director
at KPMG in New York, responsible for the information, communications and
entertainment markets.
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 was 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 eSchoolR
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.
Rodney H. Johnson EdD, Educational Consultant
Dr. Johnson has many years experience as an educational leader in a wide variety of educational institutions. He began his career as a high school math teacher. Dr. Johnson eventually moved into educational leadership, becoming a principal for elementary, middle school, and high school. He then became the Executive Director of Houston Operations for Houston Can! and Program Director for Learning 4 Today. He serves as an educational consultant for Grade Results, advising the company on all of its programs and practices.
Annease Jones, PhD, Program Manager, Georgia
Ms. Jones has spent a career excelling in the Atlanta Public Schools. Dr.
Jones began her career as an English and French teacher. She became a media
specialist, eventually earning her doctorate from Georgia State University.
She was named Teacher of the Year at J.C. Harris Elementary School,
1989-1990. Dr. Jones has recently left the Atlanta Public School s and and
has joined Grade Results to manage our programs in Georgia.
Kathryn M. Harkenrider, Director of Project Management
Trained as a speech pathologist, Ms. Harkenrider has spent over twenty years
in implementing educational products and services. She has worked for
Ignite Learning, Learnstar, Edutrax, Tudor Publishing, and National Computer
Systems (NCS) and Scantron. Based in Dallas, Ms. Harkenrider has a unique
understanding of the needs of Dallas ISD. She has implemented and trained
teachers throughout Dallas ISD on Scantron's test scoring equipment. In
addition, for NCS, she worked with the district's assessment staff in the
conversion of scanned forms to new optical scanning equipment.
Roxana Chevez Herra, Director of Content Development
Ms. Chevez Herra has a graduate degree in TESOL, with over ten years of
experience teaching bilingual students. After receiving an education in
both the United States and Costa Rica, she has spent years teaching in Costa
Rica schools, a country whose school system is officially bilingual. She
currently works as a Grade Results' Director of Content Development, while
spending time teaching working as an adjunct professor at the University of
Costa Rica. The managers of the content areas report to her.
Regina Reeves, Senior Project Manager
Ms. Reeves has over 10 years teaching experience in urban schools,
continuous professional development in research based teaching and learning
strategies and exceptional skills in effective classroom design, student
time/task management, and initiating/maintaining parental involvement. She
is currently working on her graduate degree in education while managing
several major projects for the company.
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