Welcome
to the Stellar Schools Development Corporation
Project
Our
design of Stellar Schools has, among other things, an
instructional format based on methods, technologies,
content, and organizational structures known to work in
real "brick & mortar" schools:
[1] Superior
quality online instruction from expert teachers and
professors. But we don't throw away the books to go online.
[2] Tutoring by teachers, teaching assistants and advanced
students.
[3] Self-paced mastery learning environment that fosters
early completion of studies.
[4] A rigorous curriculum inspired by and mostly drawn
from:
The Core
Knowledge Sequence
The
Advanced Math & Science Academy (AMSA)
The Hillsdale Academy
Trinity-Pawling School Economics Curriculum
Advance Placement Courses
International Baccalaureate Requirements
[5] Structured
to eliminate the harm of social
promotion.
[6] A licensing
or franchising network is used to provide:
Economies
of scale
An optimal distribution of effort
A superior method for raising funds or capital
Licensing is the non-profit analogue of
franchising
[7] The
non-profit Stellar Schools Development Corporation (SSDC)
will likely undertake the R & D function as well as the
establishment and operation of non-profit schools.
[8] A separate for-profit company, Asora® Education
Enterprises, (replacing the Stellar Schools Company) is
also working on these developments and use them in its
forthcoming franchising networks of schools as well as to
provide other services within its core competencies.
Want
An Introduction?
To get started, you may wish to look at our very
short, The Gist of It description
of Asora's Stellar Schools project. To see what is the
latest news about Stellar Schools just come to our
link: New Developments.
Or you may
be interested in applications to Catholic
Education, where
possible collaborations are discussed.
For an introduction to the educational aspects of Stellar
Schools you can review our General Plans and
Characteristics of Stellar Schools. We also
have a downloadable Strategic
Plan. And to
view a Web based PowerPoint driven video demonstration
of a lecture in Algebra 1 check out our
Courseware
Examples.
For those of you who might be interested in joining this or
a similar effort you can visit our Want to help?
section. We
also recommend that you read the report,
The Rationale and Motivation for Stellar
Schools, which is
presented on our sister organization Asora Education's
website.
While this report's intended primary audience is potential
participants (donors, investors and workers), we believe
that others may find it interesting as well. We link to the
report's text as well as to a shorter video version that
can be Viewed from its
website.
Other information is available from our downloadable
reports.
Those that are more focused on public policy and school
reform can be accessed from our Download Reform
Reports area.
All of Asora's other downloadable reports emphasize our
development plans and include our detailed business plan-
which is also has some emphasis on educational public
policy issues. They can be accessed from our
Download Development
Reports page.
Check out the Asora staff's Qualifications
by means of
their resumes and biographies. Currently it is a staff
of one.
Or for more information send your requests and
questions to us by using the Contact Us link.