Other Services of Asora® Education Enterprises
Prior to March 1, 2007 the predecessor enterprise,
the
Stellar Schools Company (SSC), had
offered services in the three areas of tutoring, substitute
teaching, and consulting. Since that date, the renamed
company,
Asora Education Enterprises, has
been offering those same services as well as some new ones.
We describe these services in what follows below.
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Please use this link
to
obtain information about
Asora Consulting.
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In
the
Asora Tutoring division,
we provide tutors for K-12 pupils who attend schools or who
are home schooled. In doing this we have marketed this
service to schools as well as individual students.
These kinds of services will also be offered to
organizations developing schools using the Stellar Schools
format. We will provided tutors at school sites as well as
at the franchisor/licensor help desk facilities.
Though the fees can vary, we generally charge $50 per hour
for tutoring with the first hour free.
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Asora Substitutes are
personnel who Asora Education assigns to provide substitute
teaching services to schools under contract. This was the
first service offered by Asora's predecessor SSC beginning
in 2005. During the 2006-2007 school year, Asora provided
substitute teaching services to a private school in
Providence.
As Stellar format schools begin to operate they will have
special needs for substitute teachers who understand how to
work in that instructional environment. Asora will train
and deploy substitute teaching/tutoring personnel to
replace staff when they are absent from client schools.
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Asora Productions is
responsible for the creation of multimedia content used in
our instructional software. In November 2005, when Asora
was operating as SSC we began developing course materials
for our K-12 curriculum. We have been seeking customers to
contract for the development of specific courses, but have,
to-date, not secured any such contracts. Thus, progress in
this area has been slight.
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Asora
Publishing is an
effort closely related to
Asora Productions. The
instructional content we provide online is the
responsibility of
Asora Productions, while
our publishing effort encompasses both that and printed
materials. An important characteristic of Asora Education
is our insistence that course content be available in both
hardcopy documents as well as in online formats. We intend
to offer our courseware to other school operators and for
this purpose we operate as publishers to this important
external market.
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Asora
Testing will
provide the assessment services to our own schools and
others using our courseware. Given that our testing regime
is closely aligned (and, in fact, defined) by our
curriculum and is explicitly integrated into our courseware
content, we need to provide assessment services. The
schools that we'll operate or license to use our systems
will be required to also use our testing regime as a
condition of using our name. Given the importance of
preserving the integrity of the assessment function, Asora
Testing will require independent proctors to administer
examinations. Thus local school personnel will not directly
participate in the formal examination process.
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Asora Franchising is
another name for the education management function (EMO)
that our plan envisages. Since franchising appears to be an
optimal business structure for organizing networks of
schools that use our courseware, we use this label. Our
franchising network will accommodate non-profit franchisees
but that would not be appropriate for a system managed by a
non-profit operator. (In that situation, a licensing
network will apply to a non-profit system operator of
schools.)
Strictly speaking, Asora Franchising is core effort of
Asora Education Enterprises because it is the division
responsible for developing, launching, and operating the
franchising network of Stellar Schools. Once Asora
Franchising has access to adequate capital its activities
will commence. Without that capital, Asora Franchising, is
working to develop a market for its services in hopes of
attracting equity investors and sweat equity players.
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Please use the Contact Us page
to email or telephone us to obtain further information
about our services.
Other Activities
Since
the inception of its effort in September 2003, the Stellar
Schools Company and its successor Asora Education have been
primarily engaged in seeking to develop its company
infrastructure by soliciting investments and personnel. A
secondary activity has been curriculum development. Asora
is also engaged in charitable activities by offering its
services to various types of research and educational
organizations.
Asora has adopted the open sourcing philosophy in which we
actively share our ideas and plans with others in hopes
that our type of enterprise will launch somewhere. We
believe that we do not need to be first. In fact, we
believe that it will be easier for us to develop Stellar
Schools if others have "plowed" the ground ahead of us.
We'll be quite happy if we can be the "Avis" of education!