Archive for the ‘Systemic Improvement’ Category

Innovation Through Business: A CBO’s Perspective

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Mary Hart, Associate Superintendent Mary Hart, the Associate Superintendent of Business Services at the Santa Cruz County Office of Education shares her vast experience with technology and innovation working as a CBO in a large district and at the county level.  She discusses the importance of sustaining technology and innovation and how to financially prepare during budget-strapped times.

 

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A Superintendent’s Commitment to Technology Integration

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

Dr. Susan SilverDr. Susan Silver, a recently retired superintendent from Scotts Valley Unified School District, shares her visionary leadership approach in creating effective technology programs.  TICAL’s digital media advisor Thom Dunks discusses Dr. Silver’s experience, technology planning, and capacity building through in-house professional development.  All of which assisted this low-funded school in effective technology integration.

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A Very Different Kind of School

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

We all need to band together and advocate “for a very different kind of school, dramatically different from the schools we all attended and from the schools envisioned in most ‘school reform.’”  So says Milton Chen, senior fellow and executive director emeritus of the George Lucas Educational Foundation and author of Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools.  In this episode of Radio TICAL, Milton talks with Michael Simkins about just what that very different kind of school is.

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