General
Plans and Characteristics of Stellar Schools
Our
organization, as would be true of most others, has
differing needs as it evolves and matures. For the purposes
of this discussion there are at least three stages of
development:
1. Formulation
of the service to be offered.
2. Building the organization and developing its services.
3. Providing services to clients
The Stellar
Schools effort is currently at the beginning of stage 2.
While it is true that we will continue to refine our
planned services and products, our main emphasis is the
buildup of staff and assets needed to continue. For that
reason, the primary focus of this Website is to provide
information to prospective players in the Stellar Schools
effort.
In terms of the
actual information contained within this Website, however,
most of it concerns the nature of the services and products
to be offered. This sub-page is designed as the entry point
for those visitors to StellarSchools.com who are more
interested in its educational aspects. For those more
interested in developing Stellar Schools into a commercial
business please visit the website of our sister
organization, Asora Education
Enterprises.
For an
introduction to our Stellar Schools project, we have a
twenty-minute video overview that can be
viewed from this Website by clicking here. Or you
can download a copy to view
later on your QuickTime Player. If you'd prefer to read
the text version of the video overview it's available on
our Downloadable
Reports page.
Educational
building blocks of Stellar Schools:
By reviewing
the documents within this Website, or those that can be
downloaded from it, one can learn about the plans for
Stellar Schools. Most of this information falls into five
principal areas:
Methods of instruction
Technologies
Optimal Networks
Curricula and Assessment
Traditional Features
The dynamics of the “bottom-line” serve
education
While we do not
discuss the for-profit version of Stellar Schools on this
sub-page, we are obliged to say that we believe the
incentives present in a for-profit franchisor driven system
will result in a relatively superior instructional and
learning environment. This is not a new concept but one
that economics tells us is valid in almost any service or
product that’s offered in the marketplace. Those
incentives require attention to costs and attention to
performance. Getting the right balance results in a
learning environment that is less expensive to the
customers, that is of high quality, and that still provides
its owners some profit for their endeavors. This is not
“rocket science” but a well-known principle of
economics and business. That line of development, is, of
course, embodied in our sister organization's effort as
described at AsoraEducation.Com.
Additional reports you can access and download from
our
Download Page.
Profitable
Education.doc This is an
early report that contains an analysis of past problems and
successes in K-12 education and how they suggest that
Stellar Schools could be “fashioned” to provide
superior instruction at less cost than what is now common.
Appendices
to Profbl. Ed.doc In this
document we provide several appendices that support the
findings of the preceding document Profitable
Education.doc.
ExSUmmaryOfBP.doc
Here is the
Executive Summary of the Stellar Schools business plan
wherein we presume it operates as a non-profit for its
first five years.
SSC
BP II and Appendices.doc This 117-page
report contains the full Stellar Schools business plan
(including the Executive Summary).
KECCR-Talk_01.doc
Here we have a
speech given in early 2005 on the analysis, structure, and
plans for Stellar Schools.
Rationale-Motivation.doc
This is a
report designed to inform and attract possible players in
our Stellar Schools effort. While its emphasis is on the
business aspects, it also presents our most recent plans
for Stellar Schools in terms of methods, technologies and
formats.