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Dr. David Braswell, CEO & Co-Founder Email: Office: (800) 599-0350 x1 Mobile: (602) 524-5704  In his role as the CEO and co-founder of UpSlope Solutions LLC, Dr. Braswell has more than 44 years of experience in educational practice and research. He has spent over three decades designing curriculum and risk management software that has helped educators plan and focus on standards-driven curriculum management, employee behavior modification techniques, and research-based professional development programs. Educated at Western Carolina University, Braswell received a Bachelor of Science degree in Education in 1979, followed by a Master of Education degree in Administration in 1986. In 2015, Braswell received a Doctor of Education degree from Argosy University with specialization in Advanced Educational Leadership. Braswell's doctoral dissertation validated the risk management in education research performed as a co-author of the UpSlope training materials and employee code of conduct design and implementation solutions developed by the company. Dr. Braswell has held positions as a teacher, principal, and chief school district administrator (superintendent) in Georgia, North Carolina, South Dakota, and New Mexico. Born in Robbinsville North Carolina near the Cherokee Qualla Boundary, Braswell spent eight years as chief school administrator with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. During his tenure, he served as one of six administrative negotiators representing the US Dept. of Interior in contract negotiations with the National Federation of Education Employees. Dr. Braswell's standards reform research and technology driven solutions have been made available worldwide through PLATO Learning (now Edmentum), McREL, Mid-continent Research Education Lab, and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). His co-founded research-supported Risk Management in Education programs have been sold nationally through sponsorship agreements with state-to-state Administrator Associations in Arizona, Idaho, Kentucky, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Vermont. Dr. Braswell is the author, co-author, and co-designer of numerous instructional, curriculum and standards assessment management software systems that currently include UpSlope's Risk Management in Education professional development series, the Employee Discipline Rubric investigation tool, the Employee Discipline Support Suite employee code of conduct guidelines, the TeachMaster Polaris, Standards Toolkit, Standards Record Keeping and Reporting, Standards Reference Master, Standards Design Master, Standards Vocabulary Master, Standards Assessment Resource Library, and Standards Teaching Activities and Plans. Senator Braswell resides in Phoenix, AZ with his wife Rhonda of 37 years. |
Randall Eden, President, COO & Co-Founder Email: Office: (800) 599-0350 x2 Mobile: (602) 315-0386  Eden is currently the President, COO, and Co-Founder of UpSlope Solutions and the co-author and co-designer of UpSlope’s Employee Discipline in an Education Environment, Employee Code of Conduct-STATE, Employee Discipline Rubric, Employee Discipline Support Suite, Student Code of Conduct-STATE, and Special Education Guidelines-STATE products and serves as the company’s primary policy analyst. Prior to co-founding UpSlope, Randall served as the Director of Learning Management Systems (LMS) Development at PLATO Learning (now Edmentum) and as the Director of Operations at TeachMaster Technologies. Randall has 29 years of experience in the public education and business sectors and has led the standards and accountability movement in K-12 education from theory into practice on multiple fronts. Since his transition from the classroom to the private sector in 2000, Eden has overseen the design, development and implementation of the Polaris® standards-referenced Learning Management System for K-12 school districts, the Publisher’s Edition of the Orion® AIS Editor, and customized LAN-based standards-referenced instructional management systems for hundreds of school districts in the U.S. and abroad. Educated at the University of Colorado and Colorado State University, Randall graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology in 1985 and was certified as a secondary science educator in 1994. During his tenure as a teacher of sixth to twelfth grade students in multiple content areas within the Cherry Creek School district in suburban Denver and the Glendale Union High School District of urban Phoenix, Eden designed and piloted several accountability-driven assessment and evaluation tools, including an early state proficiencies-based portfolio system in 1994 and served on two site-based management teams. Randall served as a founding Council Member of the Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) from 2003 to 2004, a university-based project that provided alternative assessment products and services to K-12 and university students in the U.S. and abroad. Eden also served two terms as President of the Eagle Cove Homeowner Association from 2006 to 2010 and remains active in community affairs. Currently, Randall is encouraging public school districts and charter organizations to expand their use of data-driven decision making into traditionally "high risk" operational areas that are often overlooked. Eden’s decision support and risk systems modeling tools for this purpose have received wide acclaim among school leaders across the country seeking to reduce the potential for disciplinary bias and subjectivity over time and between schools. |
