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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #ff9933; font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Mission/Philosophy of HELP</span></strong></span>

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><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>: </span>
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	<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">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.

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	<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Improve students' overall English literacy and  language skills.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: #ff9933; font-size: medium;">Management  Team </span></strong></span>

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><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 “Earth Explorer” for middle school students. Mr. Ramo is a  former Special Ed Teacher. He holds a Masters in Education Fellowship awarded  from American University.</span>

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><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—where as President and COO he led a successful acquisition of the  company in 1998—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.</span>

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Barbara Freeman, M.B.A.,</strong> is  <strong>Chief Operating Officer and HELP Project Director. </strong>Ms Freeman  currently sits on Colorado ’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.</span>

<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Paul Para, M.S </span></strong><span style="font-family: 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.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">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:</span>
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<td width="219" height="92"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Digital Directions International  (DDI)
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<td width="585" height="92"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">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. </span></td>
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<td width="585" height="92"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">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 "bridges the gap" between Learning  Management Systems and online courses.</span></td>
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<td width="585" height="98"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">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. </span></td>
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<td width="219" height="96" align="middle" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Roaring Fork RE-1 School District in  Glenwood Springs, Colorado (RE-1)</span>

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<td width="585" height="96"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Colorado Roaring Fork School  District has an ELL population approaching 40%, and recognized the urgent needs  of ELLs in K-12 education. </span></td>
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<td width="585" height="96"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Computers for Youth (CFY) is  dedicated to improving the home learning environment of low-income school  children.</span></td>
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<td width="585" height="140"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">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</span></span>.</td>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #ff9933; font-size: medium;"><strong>Board of  Advisors</strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">In addition to the HELP management team, Digital  Directions Board of Advisors includes:
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>James Morgese</b> 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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--><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #003399; font-size: small;"><strong><em>Advisory Board </em></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><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.
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><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. </em>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><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.
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><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).
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><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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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><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.</span>

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><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.</span></td>
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