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							<font color="ff9933" face="Arial">About The HELP Math Program</font></strong></font></p>
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							<font size="3" face="Arial" color="ff9933"><b><font size="4">Mission/Philosophy of HELP</font></b></font></p>
							<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><strong>The program is designed to help English Language Learner students (ELLs) in general, and Spanish-speaking students in particular, increase academic performance in mathematics by providing language acquisition support. Our goal is that HELP will</strong>: 
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								<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Enable students to achieve proficiency in grade-level state assessments that have been designed for native English Speakers. 
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								<li><font size="2" face="Arial" align="left">Provide students with greater confidence in their ability to do well in math and to help motivate students to complete their high school education and move on to higher education.<br>
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								<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Improve students' overall English literacy and language skills.</font></li>
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							<font color="ff9933" size="4">Management Team </font>
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							<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><strong>John Ramo, M.Ed., is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
							</strong>of Digital Directions. Mr. Ramo has over 25 years experience in educational technology and distance learning. Mr. Ramo founded and built a successful educational software company based in Washington D.C. in 1979, and engineered a profitable IPO in 1997 on NASDAQ. He is an award-winning producer of educational multimedia software for clients such as The Smithsonian Institute, Philips Media, Simon &amp; Schuster, Jean Michel Cousteau, Jodie Foster, the National Science Foundation and worked with the American Association for the Advancement of Science to develop the first multimedia encyclopedia of the environment &ldquo;Earth Explorer&rdquo; for middle school students. Mr. Ramo is a former Special Ed Teacher. He holds a Masters in Education Fellowship awarded from American University.</font></p>
							<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><strong>Michael Willis, M.S. is President and Head of Production of</strong> Digital Directions. With over 25 years experience in the field, Mr. Willis is a pioneer in the use of technology in online education. He has held senior executive positions with Paragon Solutions, Digital Creators&mdash;where as President and COO he led a successful acquisition of the company in 1998&mdash;Philips Interactive Media, and Jones Intercable. Mr. Willis is executive producer of over 250 leading-edge interactive CD-I and CD Video programs for the national and international markets and executive producer of over 1,000 hours of national cable network programs. Mr. Willis is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver . He has been an Adjunct Professor and lecturer at several universities throughout the country, teaching courses in multimedia, technology, and entertainment. He holds an M.S. in Education from the Johns Hopkins University.</font></p>
							<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><strong>Barbara Freeman, M.B.A.,</strong> is 
							<strong>Chief Operating Officer and HELP Project Director.							</strong>Ms Freeman currently sits on Colorado &rsquo;s 
							<em>English Language Acquisition/No Child Left Behind							</em>Policy Advisory Council and is an advisor to the Colorado Mentoring Institute for Latino Leaders. She is the creator of the HELP program and has spent hundreds of hours observing, field-testing and working with students, teachers and administrators to translate conceptual analysis to useable HELP lessons. Ms. Freeman has 20 years of international experience in risk management and technology consulting, research and analysis, and business development. She has managed global client engagements and implementation teams on projects valued up to $40 million and affecting 5,000 employees, and created sustainable businesses for Blue Chip clients and government agencies in the U.S.,Europe, and Asia . Ms. Freeman started her career on Wall Street. She holds an M.B.A. from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.</font></p>
							<p><font size="2"><strong><font face="Arial">Paul Para, M.S
							</font></strong><font face="Arial"><strong>is Chief Technical Officer of  Digital Directions. 
							</strong>Mr. Para has over 25 years experience in interactive  computer-based training, and was one of the first to use interactive simulation  of software applications as the primary means for delivering high quality  training. Mr. Para has broad experience over the entire interactive training  development process, such as designing and developing authoring systems,  designing and developing Learning Management Systems, designing and developing  course content, and managing the design and development of large interactive  training development and delivery projects. Mr. Para is responsible for the  managing and development of award winning courseware for such companies as IBM,  The Army Corps of Engineers, Houghton Mifflin, Hardcourt Brace, Softkey, and  Individual Software. He holds and M. S. in Computer Science from Illinois  Institute of Technology.</font></font></p>
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							<font size="4"><a name="creators"></a></font></b>							</font><font size="3" face="Arial"><b><font color="ff9933" size="4">Creators and Supporters of HELP</font></b></font>							</p>
							<p align="left"><font size="2" face="Arial">The HELP initiative is a public-private partnership between Roaring Fork RE-1 School District and Digital Directions International, Inc. With the support of the Colorado Department of Education, and the backing of State legislators, HELP has been co-developed by instructional designers, assessment experts, educators and administrators with a stake in the outcome. HELP Program principals include:</font></p>
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									<font face="Arial" size="2">Digital Directions International (DDI)<br>
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									<font size="2" face="Arial">Digital Directions is an educational technology company which develops and publishes instructional internet-based software for the preK to 12 market with a focus of teaching math content and skills to English Language Learners.									</font></td>
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									<font face="Arial" size="2">IDL Systmes <br>
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									<td width="585" height="92"><p><font face="Arial" size="2">iDL Systems creates and delivers online courses which uniquely adapt to the personal learning needs of each student. This technology was developed through years of research and &quot;bridges the gap&quot; between Learning Management Systems and online courses.</font></p>								  </td>
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									<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Rocky Mountain PBS (RMPBS)</font></p>
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									<td width="585" height="98"><font face="Arial" size="2">Colorado's statewide public television network, and a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. RMPBS brings a wealth of experience in education and technology through its outreach/multimedia initiatives such as Teacherline, Ready to Learn, etc. </font></td>
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									<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Roaring Fork RE-1 School District in Glenwood Springs, Colorado (RE-1)</font></p>
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									<font size="2" face="Arial">Colorado Roaring Fork School District has an ELL population approaching 40%, and recognized the urgent needs of ELLs in K-12 education.									</font></td>
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									<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Computers for Youth</font></p>
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									<font size="2" face="Arial">Computers for Youth (CFY) is  dedicated to improving the home learning environment of low-income school  children.</font></td>
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									<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">MVS Softech Pvt. Ltd. </font></p>
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									<td width="585" height="140"><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2>MVS represents one of the leading resources for innovative and sophisticated E-learning solutions. The team at MVS includes world-class experts in learning solutions, experts who understand how to humanize e-Learning and make it friendly and accessible</FONT></FONT>.</td>
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							<font color="ff9933" size="4" face="Arial"><strong>Board of Advisors</strong></font></p>
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							  In addition to the HELP management team, Digital Directions  Board of Advisors includes:<br>
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							  <!--<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>Martin Hart</strong> is an investor who sits on many prominent boards including Chairman of  the Board of Trustees of Regis University in Denver, MassMutual Corporate Investors and  Participation Investors, etc. As CFO of Pizza Hut, Mr. Hart was instrumental in  the company&rsquo;s merger with PepsiCo.
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							<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>James Morgese</strong> is President and General Manager of Rocky Mountain PBS. He is currently  leading public television&rsquo;s transition to digital TV and creator of RMPBS  Online. Mr. Morgese is also on the board of Directors of America&rsquo;s Public  Television Stations and Prime Time Today.
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							  <font size="3" face="Arial" color="#003399"><strong><em>Advisory Board </em></strong></font>
							  <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>Luis Franco-Alfonso,  M.A., Spanish Translation</strong> is a certified and published translator and author. He  has worked in statewide parent involvement projects, developing policy and  delivering (bilingual) training for parents, educators, and the business  community. He has worked for Andersen Consulting, Capital One and has taught at high school, university and corporate levels.<br>
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							<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>Effie Papatzikou  Cochran, Ed.D., Applied Linguistics,
							</strong>is Professor, City University of New York,  and an internationally regarded sociolinguist<strong>. 
							</strong>She has published extensively  and is editor of the acclaimed book 
							<em>Into the academic mainstream</em>: <em>Guidelines  for teaching language minority students</em>, adopted by TESOL; and co-editor of  TESOL
							<em>Issues in Gender, Language Learning, and Classroom Pedagogy.&nbsp;							</em><br></font></p>
							<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>Lynda Franco, M.A.,  Education: Sheltered Instruction,</strong> has taught  content-based ESOL in the U.S.  and abroad for 26 years. She was Director at the Colorado Department of  Education with the role of training teachers on the SIOP Model, and has worked  for the Center for Applied Linguistics, Leap Frog, PBS, etc. She is a published  author of ELL texts and has worked on national literacy initiatives, including  Reading First, Reading Success Network; and co-authored numerous publications.<br>
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							<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>Yolanda Gayol, Ph.D.,</strong>
							<strong>Adult/Distance  Education,</strong> is an internationally recognized specialist in distance  education. She is a visiting research scientist on evaluation of learning  technologies at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, advisor to the World Bank,  USAID, and a faculty member at Fielding   Graduate University  (Educational Leadership &amp; Change).<br>
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							<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>Bob Mohl,  Ph.D.</strong>, 
							<strong>Math and Media Technology</strong> is a multimedia educator with a  B.S. in Math and Ph.D in Education and Media Technology, both from MIT. He has  played a leading design or producer role on multimedia research &amp;  commercial products including MIT Media Lab's Aspen Movie Map, Apple's Visual  Almanac and cd-rom titles Countdown, Planetary Taxi, Top Secret Decoder,  SimTown, etc. As Creative Director for Floating Point Media, he has consulted  on educational projects for Bank Street College,  American Museum of Natural History, LeapFrog,  Britannica, eScore, Maxis, Jostens Learning, Futurelab Science Simulation Lab,  Lego etc.
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							<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>Farimah  Schuerman</strong> is a leading 
							<strong>Education Technology Consultant</strong> and managing partner at  Academic Business Partners. She was formally a Principal with the  KnowledgeQuest Education Group. Ms. Schuerman is well known in the educational  technology community for her experience and ability in strategic planning,  sales and marketing for the K-12 and higher education markets. Her expertise  has benefited companies that provide media products in traditional and new  technologies, as well as emerging companies whose services are delivered on the  Internet. She has worked extensively with companies delivering video-based  learning and e-learning. She was an executive marketing manager at Pearson  Education, where she launched two online efforts for its higher education  group. Simon &amp; Schuster's College NewsLink was a joint venture with the New  York Times; Pearson Distributed Learning was the distance learning start-up for  the largest education publisher in the world.</font></p>
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							  <strong>Doug Wagner, Ph.D</strong>., <strong>Mass  Communication 
							    </strong>and a senior <strong>Instructional Designer</strong>. He worked with  Freeman to create the initial <em>HELP Math</em> prototype. He is Adjunct  Professor, Communications, University  of Colorado at Boulder,  School of Journalism.</font></p>
