Karen Cator, director of Education Technology for the U.S. Department of Education, greets Montrez Brown of Tupelo Middle School in Tupelo, Miss. Tupelo Middle School is one of six schools brought to Washington on Monday by Microsoft and the Corporation for National and Community Service to launch START (Service and Technology Academic Resource Team), which integrates students’ expertise in technology into the teaching and learning process, providing service opportunities in schools and communities.
Karen Cator, director of Education Technology for the U.S. Department of Education, greets Ni Fang of Lower East Side Prep School in New York. Lower East Side Prep is one of six schools brought to Washington on Monday by Microsoft and the Corporation for National and Community Service to launch START (Service and Technology Academic Resource Team), which integrates students’ expertise in technology into the teaching and learning process, providing service opportunities in schools and communities.
Karen Cator, director of Education Technology for the U.S. Department of Education, talks with Tupelo Middle School (Tupelo, Miss.) Principal Linda Clifton, Tupelo Excel Technology teacher Julia Smith, and Sig Behrens, general manager for U.S. Education at Microsoft. Tupelo Middle School is one of six schools brought to Washington by Microsoft and the Corporation for National and Community Service to launch START (Service and Technology Academic Resource Team), which integrates students’ expertise in technology into the teaching and learning process, providing service opportunities in schools and communities.
Elson Nash, deputy director of Learn and Serve America with the Corporation for National and Community Service (“the Corporation”) introduces the START program as Karen Cator (L), director of Education Technology for the U.S. Department of Education, looks on. START (Service and Technology Academic Resource Team), launched by Microsoft and the Corporation, integrates students’ expertise in technology into the teaching and learning process, providing service opportunities in schools and communities.
Karen Cator, director of Education Technology for the U.S. Department of Education, previews the Obama administration’s education technology plan for an audience of teachers, students and technology industry representatives gathered at Microsoft’s Chevy Chase, Md., office for the launch of START (Service and Technology Academic Resource Team). START integrates students’ expertise in technology into the teaching and learning process, providing service opportunities in schools and communities.
Student Jessica Decker of Forest Park High School in Woodbridge, Va., shares how her school’s integrated technology service learning model and rich IT curriculum help to meet the IT needs of the school’s communities. Forest Park is one of six schools brought to Washington by Microsoft and the Corporation for National and Community Service to launch START (Service and Technology Academic Resource Team), which integrates students’ expertise in technology into the teaching and learning process, providing service opportunities in schools and communities.
Jeff Darrow, technology teacher at Winston Churchill Middle School in Carmichael, Calif., shares how his students guest-teach technology in the school’s classes to help meet the IT needs of the school’s communities. Churchill is one of six schools brought to Washington by Microsoft and the Corporation for National and Community Service to launch START (Service and Technology Academic Resource Team), which integrates students’ expertise in technology into the teaching and learning process, providing service opportunities in schools and communities.
Karen Cator, director of Education Technology for the U.S. Department of Education, interviews students from across the country on best practices for schools seeking to strengthen the IT skills of students and teachers. The students represented six schools that were brought to Washington on Monday by Microsoft and the Corporation for National and Community Service to launch START (Service and Technology Academic Resource Team) which integrates students’ expertise in technology into the teaching and learning process, providing service opportunities in schools and communities.
Mary Cullinane, director of innovation for Microsoft U.S. Education, introduces the vision for extending the START program across the country. START (Service and Technology Academic Resource Team), launched by Microsoft and the Corporation for National and Community Service, integrates students’ expertise in technology into the teaching and learning process, providing service opportunities in schools and communities.
Gathered at Microsoft’s Chevy Chase, Md., office to hear from students and teachers from six U.S. schools focused on technology service learning were Sig Behrens, general manager for Microsoft’s U.S. Education; Curt Kolcun, vice president for U.S. Public Sector; Karen Cator, director of Education Technology for the U.S. Department of Education; Allyson Knox, Microsoft’s Partners in Learning program, and Elson Nash, deputy director of Learn and Serve America with the Corporation for National and Community Service (“the Corporation”). START (Service and Technology Academic Resource Team), launched by Microsoft and the Corporation, integrates students’ expertise in technology into the teaching and learning process, providing service opportunities in schools and communities.
Karen Cator, director of Education Technology for the U.S. Department of Education, talks with Forest Park High School’s START (Service and Technology Academic Resource Team) representatives Lucy Miller-Garfield of SWAT (Students Working to Advance Technology), Forest Park technology teacher Chuck Drake, and student Jessica Decker. Forest Park is one of six schools brought to Washington by Microsoft and the Corporation for National and Community Service to launch START, which integrates students’ expertise in technology into the teaching and learning process, providing service opportunities in schools and communities.
Loving High School students celebrate the completion of their first student built home as part of Microsoft’s Partners in Learning (PiL) program and the Public Education Department (PED) rural revitalization program, which helps bring affordable housing to the local New Mexico community.
New Mexico is collaborating with Microsoft’s Partners in Learning (PiL) program to develop programs like the Building Trades Program, which gives students hands-on career training to develop skills to solve real issues in their communities
