Current Professional Position
I will be transitioning into a new role as Director of Educational Innovation and Information Services, leading the educational technolgy program at Convent and Stuart Hall Schools of the Sacred Heart, beginning this August.
For the past 12 years, I have served as Director of Technology at the Urban School of
San Francisco, a school
on the cutting edge of curriculum innovation that spans
far beyond technology. Refer to the three articles about Urban's technology efforts as published in Learning and Leading With Technology.
Summary of Accomplishments at Urban
- Hosted the 3-day 2008 Integrated Technology Symposium for School Leaders, attended by 60 lead administrators from around the country
- Implemented a 1:1
student and teacher laptop program,
the first high school in the San Francisco Bay Area
to distribute laptop computers to all students and
teachers
- Urban School is highlighted in the recent book, 1:1 Learning: Laptop Programs That Work, Pamela Livingston, ISTE, 2006
- Also see, One–to–One Computing: Pointers On Measuring Success — From Three Programs That Work, Stewart Crais, EdTech Focus on K12, Nov/Dec 2006
- Among the first schools nation-wide to implement
Apple wireless laptops
- Technology at Urban is integrated throughout the
curriculum to achieve natural and seamless use to
support student learning, communication and organization
- all without computer skills training classes
- Received the 2004
Leading Edge Award in Technology from the National
Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) exceptional example of technology integration - see Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project.
- Hosted the Bay Area Laptop mini-Conference, January, 2006
ISTE Member, Board of Directors
Elected to serve as PK-12 Schools Representative on the 2007-09 Board of Directors for The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) - see related news article
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