| Release Date: 6/26/2009 |
Contact: Kara E. B. Calder 410-887-5908 |
What: At the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), Baltimore County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Joe A. Hairston will serve on two panels and 25 BCPS principals will attend workshops to learn more about effectively integrating technology into classroom instruction. In addition, Helen Padgett, incoming board president of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), will highlight BCPS as a "best-practice" school system in her 2009 Presidential Address, and ISTE leaders will introduce new national education technology standards for administrators, which BCPS helped draft and vet.
When: The conference: Sunday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 1, 2009
2009 Presidential Address by Helen Padgett
Sunday, June 28, from 5:45 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Panels featuring Dr. Hairston:
- Data Driven Decision Making: Administrators Share Best Practices
Monday, June 29, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- Maryland: Building Capacity for Technology Proficiency
Wednesday, July 1, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
801 Mount Vernon Place, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Background:
This year marks the 30th anniversary of NECC. Presented by ISTE and in cooperation with the Maryland Instructional Computer Coordinators Association and the Virginia Society for Technology in Education, NECC 2009 is expected to attract more than 18,000 participants, including teachers, teacher educators, technology coordinators, library media specialists, administrators, policy makers, and industry representatives.
Dr. Hairston, who received the ISTE 2005 Award for Outstanding Leadership, will participate in panel discussions exploring "Data Driven Decision Making: Administrators Share Best Practices" and "Maryland: Building Capacity for Technology Proficiency." He is likely to discuss: the school system's vision, as articulated in its Blueprint for Progress; its investment in instructional technology and related professional development; its partnerships with higher education and business leaders and how they have strengthened the school system's science, technology, engineering, and mathematics program; and how access to real-time data allows teachers and school administrators to fine-tune instruction.
For the past three years, ISTE has used NECC as the forum for introducing new national education technology standards. Student standards were introduced two years ago and teacher standards were presented last year. Baltimore County Public Schools has had significant involvement in the development of the administrator standards being unveiled at the conference. Ryan Imbriale, the new principal of Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts, is an ISTE Board member who helped shape the standards and voted for them. Thea Jones, BCPS instructional technology supervisor, helped draft the standards and facilitated focus groups.
According to Imbriale, the standards address the need for educators to reach students in a different way and align with several ongoing BCPS initiatives, including the development of a virtual learning environment, 24x7 access to information, differentiated instruction, and inquiry-based learning.
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