Education Resources is quickly becoming the global leader in education, teacher training, education technology and school solutions, providing innovative print and digital education materials for preK through college, student information systems and learning management systems, teacher professional development, career certification programs, and testing and assessment products that raise the standard for the what quality education truly means. ER's purpose is to produce and support wise, motivated and compassionate human beings.
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| | Patricia (Adams) McCarty, President of Education Resources, L.L.C.
was motivated to use her entrepreneurial skills coupled with her corporate management background to try to completely re-engineer pre-k--college education because she was worried about children and teachers not receiving an adequate education to be able to have exemplary lives .
Education Resources, LLC is now considered one of the most important, fastest growing education companies globally, having produced over ten years of solutions and research data proving tools that support every child’s learning needs. ER has provided teacher training to emerging countries in Africa as well as teachers currently teaching at Oxford College in the UK, Australia, China and Japan.
McCarty has built successful companies based on a philosophy of creating sustainable, long-term relationships with customers and maximizing effect with repeatable strategies. In 1998, after its initial five years of operation, McCarty brought HM Financing to $128,000,000 a year, winning an award from INC Magazine for fastest growth. While there, her team created one of the first interactive Internet loan applications. Her corporate and banking background at AT&T, Mellon Bank, and Norwest gave her a solid foundation for developing successful teams utilizing a “keep it simple and significant” philosophy with a demand for excellence, teamwork and accountability.
Acting on her belief that every person deserves a chance to be educated to develop their unique talents, she created partnerships with strong leaders in education to produce proprietary educational products and solutions. As President of CollegeCapital, she led the company to win over 50 awards within the first year of operation and helped to create the largest secured database of scholarships that exists today.
Considered an expert in strategic partnering, McCarty is a frequent guest speaker and has authored hundreds of articles. She has been featured in INC. Magazine, the New York Times, Working Woman, and several other publications. Among her awards are Working Woman's Entrepreneurial Excellence, and Arizona's Top 100 Women. Los Angeles Music Awards named her HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR for her work in developing a prototype network of high performing k-12 schools for students at-risk of failure, STARSHINE Academy International Schools. Arizona Interfaith honored her as the Top Educator Golden Rule Award. Her newest book "The StarShine Effect" will be released soon.
McCarty's visionary leadership in partnering with world leaders in education and business to combine unique differences, using the latest brain-learning research has positionede Education Resources as a global force for a new education paradigm.
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| Leonora Ketyer Farrah, EdD, Vice President
Dr. Farrah’s career spans almost 40 years as a leader in the public and private sectors. Her extensive experience in the field of education ranges from preschool to post-graduate and continuing studies work. She has served in various positions and posts including teacher, principal, university faculty, executive director of a long established philanthropy, headmaster, executive director of a private school, superintendent of schools, curriculum director, corporate director of education, training and development consultant for a corporation of 7800 employees. Dr. Farrah served as headmaster of a Montessori school, a school for the gifted and talented, as a professor of Teacher Education at Brooklyn College in New York, and at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and was visiting professor at New England College, Henniker, New Hampshire and Florida Atlantic University.
Dr. Farrah received her Bachelor’s Degree in Foreign Languages, her Masters Degree in Russian Area Studies and Sixth Year Advanced Certificate in the English Language Arts from Brooklyn College and her doctorate in Education and School Business Management from Rutgers University. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and has received numerous recognitions and awards, including Lifetime Membership in the P.T.A., Fellow in the Sloan Kettering IDEA New York Women’s Press Club for publications and certificate of achievement in community service from the Atlantic City Education Foundation, where she has served as its president. She was awarded Advisor of the Year at New England College and Outstanding Education Professor of the Year at Florida Atlantic University. She received the Presidential Recognition for distinguished Community Service from Rotary International and was one of the first women inducted as a Rotarian worldwide.
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Jan Shoop, MEd, Vice President
Jan Shoop has been principal of StarShine Academy since 2004 and has been an integral part of the development of the curriculum and detailed understanding of education law that has attracted the attention of the some of the most rigid educator auditors.Jan Shoop believes strongly in educating each child on an individual level in order to best utilize their talents and grow their potential. No child is the same, therefore education must be tailor made to fit each student. Shoop combines her excellent education with her vast professional experience as a teacher, administrator, and successful businesswoman to provide all students of STARSHINE ACADEMY the opportunity to succeed.
While she sets the bar high and expects the best not only for herself, but for staff and students, her ability to reach the unreachable student at STARSHINE is a testament to her caring and nurturing side. As a School Administrator, Regional Manager, and Special Education Coordinator for Ombudsman Educational Services for five years, she worked with some of the toughest students in the Valley. She embraced the challenge of working with at-risk students, helping them achieve goals they didn't think were possible. At the same time, she was developing curriculum, opening and developing new schools, and evaluating and monitoring student progress in the special education program.
In 2008, she was recognized as one of the best educational leaders in Arizona as she earned the prestigious, Circle of Honor Award from the Arizona Department of Education.
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| Bill Austin PhD
Bill Austin is a System Engineer with extensive experience in diverse technology environments. He has demonstrated success in system engineering, software engineering, system integration and architecture. Provides leadership and vision in defining and analyzing objectives, scope, issues, and organizational impact. He is also a creative marketing visionary, providing search engine optimization and integrated marketing solutions that generate revenue and company profit. Proven success in the application of systems engineering to Internet marketing solutions. A consultative planner who partners with clients in determining the best possible strategies to ensure brand awareness and increase sales. Bill has been a Chemist, IT Professional, Systems Engineer and Marketing Professional during a diverse career spanning more than 30 years with Hughes Aircraft Company, Motorola, and a variety of entrepreneurial and startup companies. He is the inventor of record on seven issued patents, several pending patents and several systems held as trade secrets.
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| Byron Davies, Ph.D.
Byron Davies has spent his life learning how technology can make business more effective and more productive -- and putting it into practice. With education from Caltech, MIT, and Stanford, Dr. Davies developed technology and new business practices at computer chip manufacturers Texas Instruments and Motorola. For the past decade, he has had leadership roles with small companies designing and implementing products for e-commerce and health care. He is currently chief technologist of a company launching mobile technology to help people self-manage their health. He is also executive director of a non-profit dedicated to accelerating the adoption of health IT in Arizona.
Parallel to his business career, Dr. Davies has had a longstanding passion for learning about learning. Early in his graduate education, he worked in the Logo group at MIT, and he has long been involved with both the Arizona charter school movement and the movement towards learning technology in Arizona.
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Douglas M. Brattebo, PhD
Raised in Des Moines, Iowa, and trained as a scholar of executive leadership, Brattebo's interests reside at the nexus of leadership, civic education, globalization, and the preservation of the planet. He believes that the Twenty-First Century will determine the outcome of the human enterprise. Brattebo is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Iowa with majors in Political Science and History and a minor in Journalism. He earned an M.A. in American Politics from the University of Maryland at College Park, and went on to earn a Ph.D., with a special emphasis on the American presidency, from the same institution. In addition, Brattebo earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and is a member of the Maryland Bar.
From 1999 to 2005, Brattebo served as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where he taught Honors Introduction to American Government, The American Presidency and the Executive Branch, and a Seminar on the Democratic Peace. In May of 2002 he was the winner of the Naval Academy's prestigious Apgar Award for Teaching Excellence, for demonstrating "effectiveness in teaching the qualities of leadership, with special emphasis on character, responsibility, and integrity, through the academic environment, curriculum, and mentoring roles outside the classroom." Brattebo served as American Government Course Coordinator at the Naval Academy and continues to be a mentor of undergraduates and graduate students through the Center for the Study of the Presidency. His most recent book, co-edited with Tom Lansford and Robert Maranto, is The Second Term of George W. Bush: Prospects and Perils.
In 2005, Brattebo became the Director of the Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP) at the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL). He has overseen the Lumina Foundation for Education's two-year study of EPFP, and brought a global subject matter focus to EPFP's two annual national conferences. Brattebo has traveled to India and China bridging education, globalization, and economic development.
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| James Goodman, PhD:
Dr. Goodman is an internationally acclaimed speaker, author and expert in healthcare management systems, psychiatry and social work, including foreign agencies. He has coordinated training and educational efforts throughout Africa, Asia and the Far East as well as the United States. As Senior Professor Associate for the Institute of Medicine for the National Academy of Sciences he formed research teams and policy for all aspects of healthcare for the United States. During the 1960's he was the Director for the Los Angeles City Health Department. He served as President, Morehouse College School of Medicine, the first Black medical college from 1980-1992; He was Chairman and CEO of Managed Health Care Systems, Inc., Director, Office of International Training Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of State; and Vice Provost, University of Washington. Consulted for the Office of President of the Boeing Company, the Department of Army and the Department of Health and Human Services. He was named Seattle's Man of the Year in 1995.
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| Marilyn Prosch, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, Arizona State University School of Global Management and Leadership is a member of the AICPA's Privacy Task Force, which developed the Generally Accepted Privacy Principles. Dr. Prosch is a full-time faculty member at ASU where she teaches Data Protection and Privacy Auditing. She has met with the Federal Trade Commission, Department of Commerce and the Ontario Privacy Commissioner several times over the past six years on the issue of data protection.
Dr. Prosch’s presentations include Data Protection and Generally Accepted Privacy Principles. Protecting personal information is a major concern for organizations of all types. In the U.S. alone, over 170 privacy breaches have already occurred during 2006, including universities, not-for-profits, government agencies and large corporations. The FTC is increasingly sanctioning businesses and requiring privacy audits for companies that have both intentional and unintentional privacy breaches. She is a frequent guest speaker to introduce privacy risk assessment techniques and the AICPA's Generally Accepted Privacy Principles (GAPP).
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| Jack Ring,
Jack Ring applies systems principles and systems engineering practices to the evolution of peopled systems such as business enterprises, and he mentors high tech organizations regarding strategy, innovation, organization, business process and growth. He is experienced in a variety of markets and businesses including industrial, commercial, aerospace, intelligence and the public sector. Jack learned management competencies at General Electric.
Jack Ring has produced numerous innovations during twenty years with General Electric, ten years with Honeywell and twenty years coaching more than thirty high tech startups and turnarounds.
His innovations include end-results, such as electronic devices, software systems, race cars and knowledge management systems as well as enabling-results such as enterprise architectures, processes for educing knowledge production and utilization, and ways and means for pursuit of ones own “personal best.”
He was named Fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering in 2003 where he conducts tutorials and futurist panels and co-chaired the Intelligent Enterprises Working Group. He is an Industrial Fellow at the Stevens Institute of Technology, School of Systems and Enterprises and a Senior Analyst with Cyon Research Corp. Jack is active in six professional societies and has collected high marks for his presentations and tutorials at conferences in the U.S., Australia, Europe, and Israel. He earned a BA, Physics, Emporia State University (ex-Kansas State Teachers College) and continues formal education in systems, innovation and the practice of serving followers.
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Captain Ron Nielsen has been a pilot for over 33 years and a Captain for half of that time for a major airline. In the 14 years he has taught numerous leadership and teambuilding seminars for the FAA, the airline industry and leading edge companies. Captain Ron is the author of The Fearless FlightKit™ and is endorsed by Chicken Soup for the Soul. He was a Vietnam pilot veteran as a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy.
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Ian Percy challenges and inspires corporate and association audiences in numerous industries around the world. His unique ability to help people believe in their full potential, to challenge themselves when they need to be challenged and to stimulate courageous innovation will bring significant advantage to your organization.
An organizational psychologist, Ian is a renowned business speaker and respected author of six books. As a speaker Ian has the rare honor of being inducted into both the US and Canadian Speaker Halls of Fame.
Ian's writing includes the breakthrough book on leadership titled Going Deep; an inspirational book called The 11 Commandments for an Enthusiastic Team and his most recent The Profitable Power of Purpose. He writes a regular column on performance improvement for Human Capital magazine read by over 40,000 HR leaders and is a frequent contributor to the online publication RetailWire.
A long list of clients from insurance, finance, health care and technology sectors includes Microsoft, Exxon Mobil, Transamerica, Nortel, US Bank, MDRT, Aventis, Sodexho and KPMG.
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Vernon D. Swaback
Vice President / Director Vern Swaback is an architect, author and planner and has earned the right to be called one of our most distinguished visionaries. An editorial in an Australian paper said his writings read "like a scream from the heart for a more humane manner of development." The Washington Post carried an article by Neil Pierce about Vern's work entitled, "A Community and Global Vision From An Arizona Architect."
Mr. Swaback first came to Arizona to become Frank Lloyd Wright's youngest apprentice. He served with the Wright organization for more than two decades before founding what is now Swaback Partners. Vern's 40-person firm includes architects, planners, and interior designers. He has authored numerous books and articles including, The Creative Community.
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Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Ph.D.
Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner is a Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies and Lincoln Professor of Ethics & Education, Arizona State University. She became a researcher with a focus on access and equity in higher education because these issues are important to the goal of expanding opportunities for her home community and other communities around the world. She grew up working as a laborer on farm labor camps and describes herself as a woman of color, a Latina/Filipina, from a "no collar" class. While conducting interviews with women and racially/ethnically diverse faculty, students, and administrators in the United States, she has had many opportunities to converse with, read, and write about their work/life experiences. For example, finding little written to document the lives of the first Asian Pacific American, Latina, and American Indian women presidents of four-year colleges, she dedicated herself to filling this gap in the literature, not only bringing their histories to light but in hopes that these stories can provide inspiration to others who follow in their paths. Professor Turner also finds it important to translate scholarship into practice by sharing her research in lectures and workshops she conducts throughout the country and internationally for those attempting to increase the participation of students, faculty, and administrators typically underrepresented on college campuses. Narratives of her study participants describe how each person brings a unique background to her/his work/ life experience. In other words, who you are shapes the types of questions you ask, the kinds of issues which interest you, and the ways in which you go about seeking solutions. Professor Turner’s work reflects an enduring commitment to give voice and visibility to those considered non-traditional.
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