Classroom Connect Executive Receives 2003 Private Sector Champion Award

The Consortium for School Networking Honors Dr. Jenny House

Press Release - For Immediate Release
For more information contact:

Toni Miller, Membership Director
Consortium for School Networking
202/861-2676, ext. 115
toni@cosn.org

Charlene Blohm
C. Blohm & Associates, Inc.
210/656-2324
charlene@cblohm.com

February 27, 2003, Washington, D.C. - The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) today awarded Dr. Jennifer "Jenny" House the 2003 Private Sector Champion Award.

CoSN annually honors an individual who best exemplifies the Spirit of the Education technology community as the year's unsung hero. The award was presented this morning during CoSN's 2003 K-12 School Networking Conference in Washington. D.C.

"Jenny House is one of those busy people who always makes time to help," said Keith R. Krueger, CEO of CoSN. "She donates her prodigious energy to benefit the education technology community as a whole. No one deserves the award more than Jenny House."

Dr. House, vice president of strategic relations at Classroom Connect (www.classroom.com), is a long-time friend of the education technology community, and particularly CoSN. Her official job is developing key relationships and identifying partnership opportunities with government agencies, associations, and companies for product development, marketing and sales activities, and potential investments. But she does much more as the unofficial ambassador for the K-12 education community.

Dr. House is a Subcommittee Chair of CoSN's new Emerging Technology Committee and serves on the board of directors of Association of Educational Publishers (AEP), the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Dr. House is also on the Web advisory board of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA). She has received numerous awards during her career, including the Golden Apple Award for Impact on Education Marketing and the National Award for Outstanding Teacher of the Year, and is listed in Who's Who in the West.

Before joining Classroom Connect, Dr. House worked in curriculum development for Tenth Planet Explorations, in solutions development, service, and sales with Apple Computer, and on marketing education programs for Hewlett-Packard. An educator for 16 years, Dr. House served as district curriculum coordinator, writing project coordinator, reading specialist, principal, and teacher in various California school districts.

She earned a Master of Education degree from University of San Francisco and a Reading, Language and Leadership certificate and doctorate in Computer Education from the University of California, Berkeley.

Prior recipients of the Private Sector Champion Award include Kathy Hurley, vice president, education industry affairs, at PLATO Learning, and Jeanne Hayes, president of Quality Education Data (QED). For more information about the award and its recipients, visit www.cosn.org/about/awards/industry.cfm.

About the K-12 School Networking Conference

The CoSN K-12 School Networking Conference is the leading policy and practice conference in the education technology arena. Held annually in or around Washington, D.C., the conference attracts school district, state and national leaders, as well as members of the corporate community, who want the best and most up-to-date information on emerging issues in technology. For more information, visit www.k12schoolnetworking.org.

About the Consortium for School Networking

Founded in 1992, CoSN is the preeminent national voice on the use of the Internet and information technologies to improve K-12 learning. It played a leading role in creation of the E-rate and other key national education technology initiatives over the past decade. It is a "CIO-type" organization for education technology leaders from the school district, state and national level.

CoSN leadership initiatives include Data-Driven Decision Making (www.3d2know.org), Safeguarding the Wired Schoolhouse (www.safewiredschools.org), Taking Total Cost of Ownership to the Classroom (www.classroomtco.org), and the development of the Council of School District Chief Technology Officers (CTO).

Visit www.cosn.org or call 202/861-2676 to find out more about CoSN's programs and activities that support leadership development to ensure that information technology has a direct and positive impact on student learning in elementary and secondary schools.