Delegation Members

	US Delegation to Europe, 2002: Internet Technology and Schools Agenda Working Groups Delegation Members London Briefing Materials Paris Briefing Materials Brussels Briefing Materials Bonn Briefing Materials Sponsor Background Information US Education System Review Trip Report #1: Government Demand/Resource for Education Technology/ICT Trip Report #2: Assessing ICT's Educational Impact Trip Report #3: Standards & Accessibility - SIF, SCORM, IMS, GEM, etc. Trip Report #4: As a Member of the European Delegation of CoSN Trip Photos

October 6-13, 2002

James Bosco, Professor at Western Michigan University and Chair, CoSN International Committee, and Chair, Technology Standards for School Administrators Project

Western Michigan University
3212 Sangren Hall
Kalamazoo, MI 49008
616/387-3485
616/387-4592 fax

James Bosco holds the rank of Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan and is the Director of External Educational Technology Relations for the College of Education at WMU. He has led efforts at WMU to develop E-Learning graduate training for technology coordinators. His work in External Technology Relations is to foster linkages between Western Michigan University and other state and national agencies and organization which can expand and improve the use of technology in K-12 schools and in the preparation of education professionals. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), was a past -chair of CoSN. He is currently the co-chair of the CoSN International Committee. For the past several years, he has been involved in efforts to expand communication and cooperation between the educational technology community of the U.S. and other nations. Bosco was a visiting professor at the University of Passau in 1999. He is chair of the Technology Standards for School Administrators Collaborative (TSSA).He is serving on a number of advisory committees in Michigan to the State Board of Education served as member of the technology advisory committee for the Michigan State Board of Education and also a member of the advisory committee for Michigan's "Learning Without Limits" which is an initiative to provide one-to-one wireless computing for Michigan K-12 students. His current writing is focused on the impact of technology as a factor in the educational reform in the United States.

Prescott M. Caballero, Policy Staff Member, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President

White House
Washington, DC 20502
202/456-6046
202/456-6021 fax

In January 2002, Prescott Caballero joined the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he specializes in policy matters related to information technology, Internet infrastructure, and telecommunications.

Prior to this post, from February 2001 to January 2002, he served as an in-house consultant on IT management best practices within the White House Office of Administration.

Prior to moving to Washington, he worked as a Senior Business Analyst at Advent Networks. While at Advent, he consulted on business strategies for leveraging Internet broadband delivery technologies. Prior to Advent, he was President, Division of Internet Ventures, at Harvard Funding. In addition, he served as Chief Knowledge Officer, as well as Director of Legal Affairs, at National Home Guaranty Corporation.

He holds an MBA (with an Information Technology concentration), a JD, and a BA from the University of Texas. A native Texan, he has lived in Washington, D.C. since February 2001.

Ann Lee Flynn, Director Education Technology, National School Boards Association

1680 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703/838-6764
703/683-7590 fax

Ann Flynn is Director of Education Technology for the National School Boards Association. In this position, Dr. Flynn provides leadership on issues surrounding education technology to empower education, industry, and policy leaders to improve education processes and outcomes through knowledge and understanding of technology and organizational development.

Much of her time is devoted to supporting the Technology Leadership Network (TLN), a national membership program serving nearly 500 school districts. Under Dr. Flynn's leadership, the Technology Site Visit program, a key component of the TLN, continues to expand by offering participants unique educational experiences in exemplary technology-using school districts. In addition, she is involved in the development of technology programming to support school leaders and board members through NSBA's state federations.

The National School Boards Association is the nationwide advocacy organization for public school governance. NSBA's mission is to foster excellence and equity in public elementary and secondary education in the United States through local school board leadership. Dr. Flynn works closely with the corporate community on a variety of projects including NSBA's nationally recognized Technology + Learning Conference (T+L). In her previous role as Director of Education Technology Partnerships, corporate involvement expanded from 87 companies in 1991 to more than 400 firms and over $1 million in exhibition sales in 2000.

Dr. Flynn addresses industry and education groups about developing strategies to foster productive partnerships focused on finding new ways to work together which can increase the market for industry as well as improve the teaching and learning environment. She authored "The Role of a School Board in the Purchasing Process" for the recently released book, The Experts' Guide to the K-12 Market, and hosted one of the SIIA web casts on "leveraging Tradeshows".

She represents NSBA at numerous national meetings including EdNet and the World Education Market. Dr. Flynn is involved in several coalition groups within the Washington ed-tech community including serving on the NCTET Board and previously, as part of the staff management team for the CEO Forum's final report. In addition, she collaborates with more than 25 national organizations that cosponsor T+L. She has recently joined the advisory board for Scholastic Administr@tor magazine.

She began her career in 1977 on the faculty of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge where she served as the Freshman Women's Counselor and later as the Assistant Director of Residence Life. Dr. Flynn left LSU in 1981 to pursue her doctorate in Higher Education Administration at the University of Virginia where she developed an interest in experiential learning. That interest, along with supporting fields in Instructional Technology and Business Management, lead to the development of her dissertation, An Examination of the Roles of Cognitive Learning Styles in the Internship Experience Offered by The Washington Center.

Her experience in associations began with an internship at the American Council of Education where she authored the case studies in the Directory of Campus-Business Linkages. Other corporate/education projects included work as a consultant with the Center for Innovative Technology in Herndon, VA, and the Virginia Beach office of the University of Virginia Division of Continuing Education to launch a televised engineering degree program offered by a consortium of universities. In 1992, she came to NSBA as Manager of Education Technology Programs and was promoted to a newly created position, Director of Education Technology Partnerships, in 1999. Dr. Flynn assumed leadership for all of NSBA's education technology initiatives in May of 2001.

She earned her BSE in Speech and Journalism and her Master's in Higher Education - Student Personnel at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.

William Gilcher, North American Media Projects, Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, Washington, and co-chair, CoSN International Committee,

812 Seventh Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001-3718
202/289-3777 or 202/289-1200 x111
202/289-3535 fax

William Gilcher is Co-Chair of CoSN's International Committee and Director of North American Media Projects for Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, the German cultural center in Washington, DC. In this capacity, he organizes cultural and educational projects based in internet, radio and television communication as bridges between the United States and Germany in the context of the European Union. Online learning is a special emphasis of Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes. Before joining the Goethe-Institut in 1993, Dr. Gilcher was a film producer and writer for the University of Maryland and Senior Media Program Officer for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Anita Givens, Director of Education Technology for State of Texas and Chair, State Education Technology Directors Association

Texas Education Agency
1701 North Congress Avenue
Austin, Texas 78701
512/463-9400
512/463-9090 fax

Anita is the Senior Director of the Educational Technology Division at the Texas Education Agency. She provides leadership for the integration, utilization, evaluation, and expansion of educational technologies throughout the state through the on-going implementation of the State Board of Education's Long-Range Plan for Technology. This includes the implementation of the Technology Applications curriculum; integration of technology into all content areas K-12; the Texas Library Connection; Library Services; Technology Grant Programs, including Enhancing Education Through Technology programs of NCLB; Educational Technology Pilot Projects; Technology Planning and Professional Development; E-Rate, and the TETN and T-STAR networks.

She serves on a wide variety of boards and committees on the state and national level. Anita is currently the Chair of the United Star Distance Learning Consortium (USDLC) and Chair of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA). She recently was named one of the 25 "Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers of Information Technology for 2002" by Government Technology Magazine and the Center for Digital Government. Anita makes presentations to many national audiences and at state and national conferences on educational technology.

Anita has taught Kindergarten and 2nd grade and educational technology classes from elementary through graduate school. She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Early Childhood Education from Houston Baptist University and a Master of Science Degree in Educational Management from University of Houston-Clear Lake.

Eric Hamilton, Ph.D., Interim Division Director, EHR/REC Division, National Science Foundation,

4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230
703/292-8650
703/292-9046 fax

Eric Hamilton currently serves as the Acting Director for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Research, Evaluation and Communication of the Education and Human Resources Directorate (EHR). The Division has an annual budget of approximately $68 million, and is home to EHR's Research on Learning and Education (ROLE) and Interagency Education Research (IERI) Programs. This Division supports mathematics and science education research, development and evaluation activities, including those involving learning technologies. Hamilton came to NSF in 1996, on leave from Loyola University of Chicago, where he was a member of the graduate program computer science faculty.

While on the faculty there, he formulated and obtained funding for the Loyola University Young Scholars family of projects. The project family provided middle and high school students with an intensive introduction to computer science and computer-based mathematics inquiry, was one of the first "make-your-own-computer" programs in the country, and significantly increased minority participation in AP Computer Science in Illinois.

He later organized and directed a consortium, involving most of the universities, museums, and leading community organizations in Chicago, known as the Access 2000 Chicago Partnership. NSF supported Access 2000 as a regional center for minorities, providing the resources necessary to administer an array of salutary programs to increase underrepresented minority participation in science and technology. While most of this effort supported university-based programs, part of it involved developing church-based computer camps in Chicago and in collaboration with the Chicago Public Schools to multiply access to computer technology in the inner city. The Business-Higher Education Forum awarded Access 2000 the Anderson Gold Medal as the nation's outstanding partnership of business, higher education, and public schools. Additionally, while at Loyola, he was a White House Fellowship finalist, was formally recognized by the Chicago Tribune as one of the city's most outstanding university professors, and was recipient of a Math/Science Leadership award from the US Department of Energy.

Hamilton was lead developer of and was then loaned to the Chicago Public Schools to direct its Urban Systemic Initiative, a comprehensive effort to improve mathematics and science education there, which he did until coming to NSF to oversee similar initiatives around the country.

In addition to his current work at NSF, he was NSF's staff representative on the federal interagency team that followed up the 1997 Presidential Committee of Advisors in Science and Technology (PCAST) report on K-12 educational technology, leading to the current Interagency Education Research Initiative (IERI). IERI is now the federal government's largest field initiated education research program. He has had program oversight responsibilities for Collaborative Research in Learning Technology, Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence, and Technology Integration in Education grants.

He has developed interactive, pen-based networking software for which he holds patents in the US, Canada, France, Germany and the UK. This work is currently licensed in Internet telephony software and in educational and corporate training and collaboration software.

Dr. Hamilton earned undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Chicago and a doctorate from Northwestern University.

Jim Hirsch, Associate Superintendent for Technology, Plano ISD (near Dallas, TX) and Chair of Consortium for School Networking

2700 West 15th St.
Plano, Texas 75075
469/752-8071
469/752-8032 fax

Jim has been involved in public education and the use of educational technology for more than 27 years and has worked with thousands of teachers across the United States and Canada to integrate technology into their daily classroom curriculum activities. Hirsch spent the first 21 years of his career with the Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota, leading a variety of technology implementations including one of the first large district wide area networks and an early adopter of providing online curriculum support via the Internet. Since joining Plano ISD in 1996, he has led the district in a series of intensive technology improvements. These include the development of a digital user interface (DUI), through which the district's network recognizes every student and staff member on any of its more than 25,000 computers and delivers their personal desktop directly to them. During this past year, Plano has implemented an 81-mile long fiber-optic network that carries voice, data, and digital video as well as a 116-channel private analog video network to 66 sites. Hirsch has also been involved in the development of an award-winning elementary school curriculum project that integrated technology in every classroom and led the development of district standards for hardware, software, staff development and support to provide more efficiency. Most recently, Jim has been a lead designer in the Plano ISD eSchool effort to provide a comprehensive online curriculum and a pilot district site for the Texas Education Agency in their research into providing an appropriate model for statewide online school efforts. His latest project involves providing high-speed access for more than 50,000 students from their homes back into the internal school network.

Hirsch currently serves as the Chair of the Consortium for School Networking, a Washington, DC based advocacy group, the education advisory panel for Palm Computing, the editorial advisory boards for Scholastic Administr@tor and the Dallas Morning News, and has served on the education advisory panels for Apple Computer and Knowledge Adventure. He also serves on the CIO Advisory Council and the Worldwide Executive Council. Recent recognitions have included being named to the eSchool News Impact 30 group of educational technology leaders and the Making It Happen Award by the Private Sector Council. He has published more than 80 articles on educational technology in a variety of journals. In addition, Jim has written two books, "HyperStudio and the Internet", published by Fruition Publications and "HyperQuests: Creating Multimedia Activities and Investigations", published by FTC, with his latest book, "Palmtops: Computing @ Every Student" due out this summer.

Kathleen M. Hurley, Vice President, Education Industry Affairs, NetSchools, a PLATO Learning Company

Plato
100 Galleria Parkway Northwest
Suite 1400
Atlanta, Georgia 30339
770/226-5041
770/26-5010 fax

Kathy is Vice President, Education Industry affairs for PLATO Learning. Prior to the PLATO NetSchools merger, she was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at NetSchools. She also served as Senior Vice President of Education Marketing for The Learning Company. Before joining The Learning Company, she was the Senior Vice President of SkillsBank Corporation. Kathy has also held various positions with IBM, Mindscape, Grolier, and DLM. She serves on several industry and education advisory boards, including: the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), the Council of the Great City Schools Technology Steering Committee, Oblate Media and Communication Corporation, and the National Catholic Education Exhibitors' Association. She is currently board president of the Association of Educational Publishers. Kathy began her career working with learning disabled students, after receiving her Masters degree at the Jersey City State College. She also continues to support her undergraduate institution, the University of Dayton, by serving on the school of education's advisory board.

Keith R. Krueger, Executive Director, Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)

Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)
1555 Connecticut Ave., NW #200
Washington, DC 20036
202/466-6296 x18
202/462-9043 fax

Keith R. Krueger is Executive Director of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a national nonprofit that promotes the use of information technologies and the Internet in K-12 classrooms to improve learning. He co-founded and is President of Nonprofit Management, Inc., an association management firm specializing in management services for nonprofits using information technologies in education, health and libraries. He has a Masters of Arts in Public Affairs from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. Mr. Krueger is on the Advisory Board for The New York Times Learning Network, eSchool News and Scholastic Administrator Magazine. He is a representative for the National Science Foundation on a joint EU/US committee planning a joint research agenda for eLearning. He is a past Board Member for the Organizations Concerned about Rural Education (OCRE) and is Treasurer of the National Committee on Technology in Education & Training (NCTET). He has been honored as an eSchool News IMPACT 30 key national leader in educational technology.

Marcia Kuszmaul, Group Manager, Product Management, Microsoft Education Solutions Group

Microsoft
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, Washington 98052
425/706-3455
425/706-7329 fax

As group manager of worldwide marketing strategy for Microsoft's Education Solutions Group, Marcia Kuszmaul is responsible for thought leadership and business strategy to enable the worldwide community of students, educators and lifelong learners to realize their full potential through the power of Microsoft solutions any time, any place, on any device. Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal, business and educational computing.

With education sales in more than 70 countries and regions worldwide, Microsoft is committed to helping educators build a Connected Learning Community where technology-based solutions provide a rich learning environment that makes connections, removes limitations, and creates opportunities for 21st-century learners. Through its solutions, programs and partners, Microsoft is working with the education community in three key areas: 1) access to learning through programs such as the Anytime Anywhere Learning notebook program and new devices such as the Tablet PC; 2) teacher professional development programs, such as Innovative Teachers, that support the training of more than 1.5 million teachers worldwide; 3) agile and secure infrastructures, including leadership in international standards initiatives for data interoperability and elearning content as well as data-driven decision making.

Love of learning has inspired Marcia Kuszmaul to be aligned with education throughout her career, starting in the classroom as an English and journalism teacher then entering education marketing through textbook publishing. Prior to joining Microsoft's education group in 1997, Marcia was Vice-President of Marcy Monyek & Associates, a marketing communications firm specializing in education, where she oversaw the successful introduction of the Windows platform in education, and Director of Marketing for the American Library Association, developing award-winning international library and literacy campaigns.

Marcia earned an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; and a BA in journalism from Baylor University, Waco, Texas.

Robert Nelson, Director of Technology, Milwaukee, WI public schools and chair of technology committee for Council of Great City Schools

Milwaukee Public Schools
P.O. Box 2181
Milwaukee, WI 53201-2181
414/475-8482
414/475-8246 fax

Robert Nelson, MS Curriculum and Instruction, is Director of Technology for the Milwaukee Public Schools. The Milwaukee Board of School Directors formed the Department of Technology in August of 1995. He has 33 years of experience, working in schools as a teacher, project director, assistant principal and principal. Throughout the various positions he's held, he has incorporated technology, and worked to secure the participation of business, agencies, and other educational institutions into all aspects of the educational process. He serves on numerous boards and advisory committees, and is recognized at the local, state, and national levels for his leadership and expertise. He is married to Carol Nelson who is accompanying him on this trip.

Nuala O'Connor-Kelly, US. Department of Commerce, Chief Counsel for Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Commerce
1401 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Room 4835
Washington, DC 20230
202/482-0058 (direct phone)
202/482-1984 (main office)
202/482-0253 fax

Nuala O'Connor Kelly joined the Technology Administration as Chief Counsel on March 18, 2002. Prior to joining TA, O'Connor Kelly served as Deputy Director of the Office of Policy and Strategic Planning within Secretary Donald L. Evans's team at the Department of Commerce.

Prior to her service in the Bush Administration, Ms. O'Connor Kelly served as Vice President-Data Protection and Chief Privacy Officer for Emerging Technologies of the online media services company, DoubleClick. O'Connor Kelly helped found the company's first data protection department and was responsible for the creation of privacy and data protection policies and procedures throughout the company and for the company's clients and partners. O'Connor Kelly also served as the company's first deputy general counsel for privacy and was instrumental in the company's work with the Federal Trade Commission, the state Attorneys General, and with private sector trade associations and class action litigation.

Following graduation from Princeton with an A.B. in English Literature and a certificate in American Studies, she worked at Princeton as an administrator for several years. During coursework towards master's in education administration and policy, worked on elementary and secondary education policy both at the Massachusetts statehouse and on Capitol Hill, for the Senate Education and Labor Committee, where she worked on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. She continued work for an education law and lobbying firm on ESEA for a number of years. During law school, taught a basic law/citizenship/human rights course at Coolidge High School, a public school in Northeast Washington, and also continued work in the legislative arena on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Now, at TA, synthesizing her work in education policy and experience in the high-tech field.

Ms. O'Connor Kelly is a frequent speaker on electronic commerce, and has been an attorney with the law firms of Sidley & Austin, Hudson Cook, and Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the bar in Washington, D.C. and Maryland. O'Connor Kelly received her A.B. from Princeton University, a master's of education from Harvard University, and J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Douglas A. Simon, Special Assistant, Office of Education Technology, US Department of Education

Office of Education Technology, U.S. Department of Education
FOB-6, Room
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
202/260-8308
202/401-3941 fax

Doug Simon is currently the Special Assistant to the Secretary of Education in the Office of Education Technology at the US Department of Education.

As Vice-President of Hockaday Donatelli, a political consulting firm in Alexandria, VA, Doug brought to his clients an expertise in utilizing the Internet to raise money and communicate a message. As an Internet professional, he understands the need for creative application and ongoing technological innovations to maximize the Internet's potential.

Prior to joining Hockaday Donatelli, Doug was Sales Director at eContributor.com. He was responsible for designing successful Internet fundraising campaigns. His clientele consisted of universities, non-profit organizations, political campaigns and political action committees. Before eContributor.com, Doug worked under Ohio Secretary of State and Chairman J. Kenneth Blackwell at the United States Census Monitoring Board.

Doug earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Education from the University of South Florida. He worked for 3 years in the Pasco County School system. He is a native of Tampa, Florida and now resides in Arlington, Virginia.

Larry S. Snowhite, Vice President, Government Relations, Houghton Mifflin

Houghton Mifflin Company
1156 15th St., NW
Suite 1005
Washington, DC 20005
202/467-5350
202/775-4379 fax

Larry S. Snowhite joined Houghton Mifflin Company in 2001, after representing the company as outside counsel responsible for government relations for more than twenty years. He is responsible for representing the interests of Houghton Mifflin before Congress and federal agencies and departments, as well as with other governmental and non-governmental organizations. This includes tracking legislative and political trends and informing Houghton Mifflin executives of challenges and opportunities posed by federal law, regulations, programs, and policies. A major part of his responsibilities is to work with educators, policymakers, government officials, and the publishing industry to develop and implement programs to effectively improve educational achievement and lifelong learning.

Houghton Mifflin Company, a unit of Vivendi Universal Publishing (the number three publisher worldwide), is one of the leading educational publishers in the United States. Houghton Mifflin publishes textbooks, instructional technology, assessments and other educational materials for elementary and secondary schools and colleges. The Company also publishes an extensive line of reference works and fiction and award-winning non-fiction for adults and young readers, and computer-administered testing programs and services for the professional and certification markets. The Company's website can be found at www.hmco.com.

Prior to joining Houghton Mifflin, Snowhite was General Counsel to McA Enterprises, Inc., an education consulting firm. As a practicing attorney, Snowhite has provided legislative, regulatory, and legal counseling and strategic planning services to trade associations, state and local governments, nonprofit organizations, and corporations. Snowhite served as Director of Congressional Affairs to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; as Deputy Director of the State of New Jersey Washington Office and Assistant to the Governor; and was Legislative Counsel for the National League of Cities and U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Snowhite received a Bachelor of Science from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and his J.D. from New York University Law Center in New York City, New York. He is admitted to the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and New York bars.

Donna Somma, Vice President, Business Affairs, Scholastic Internet Group, Scholastic Inc.

568 Broadway
New York, NY 10012-3999
212/343-7524
212/343-4949 fax

Donna Somma is Vice President of Business Affairs for the Internet Group of Scholastic Inc. She is responsible for identifying, negotiating and implementing Internet and software opportunities and acquisitions for the division, including partnerships and opportunities in Europe. She joined Scholastic in 1997 as legal counsel for international and corporate operations. She now manages domestic and international business development in the Internet and software areas. She has also served on the advisory board for the Online Poetry Education Project for The Academy of American Poets.

About Scholastic: Scholastic is a global children's publishing and media company, serving the needs of parents, teachers and children. Throughout its history, Scholastic has emphasized quality products and a dedication to learning. Founded in the United States in 1920, Scholastic has grown to be the largest publisher and distributor of children's books in the world with operations in a total of 15 countries. Scholastic's products are translated into over 25 languages and its TV programs are aired in over 50 countries. In Europe, Scholastic's operations are represented by Scholastic UK and a network of established representative relationships.

The U.S. web site, Scholastic.com, is the leading website for K-8 teachers, students and families. For educators, The Teacher Resource Center offers free, standards-based content that spans reading, language arts, math, social studies, and science. It includes thousands of teacher-tested lesson plans; engaging student online activities; tools for the creation of free, personalized classroom homepages; and online ordering for Book Clubs and Software Clubs. The Teacher Store at Scholastic.com is a unique online shopping experience that features an extensive, relevant selection of classroom and professional development materials at preferred teacher pricing. For parents and families, The Scholastic Store Online offers a broad mix of merchandise carefully selected for its developmental appropriateness and kid appeal, with learning benefits endorsed by a panel of early childhood experts. A robust Family area on the site facilitates home-to-school connections through sections entitled "What's Up At School" and "Smart Parenting." For Kids, Scholastic.com offers games and activities featuring such favorite Scholastic characters such as Clifford the Big Red Dog, Harry Potter and Captain Underpants.

Cheryl Scott Williams, President, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and Vice President for Education, Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)

401 Ninth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004
202/879-9808
202/879-9695 fax

Cheryl Scott Williams was appointed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Vice President of Education in March 2001. Williams oversees the development and coordination of the Corporation's educational projects in conjunction with partners from across the learning community. She is responsible for the planning and coordination of public broadcasting initiatives that address priorities such as preparing children to enter school "ready to learn," maximizing the educational capacity of new digital platforms, and increasing educational opportunities for all.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a private nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967, is a leader in public broadcasting's transition to digital educational and programming services for the American People. The corporation is public broadcasting's largest single source of funds for analog and digital program development and production. CPB also funds more than 1,000 local public radio and television stations across the country.

Prior to joining CPB, Williams served as Director of Education Technology Programs at the National School Boards Association (NSBA) in Alexandria, Virginia. At NSBA, she was responsible for the growth of a school district-based membership program and the cultivation of partnerships between local school districts and national organizations, corporations, and government agencies to further the use of education technology in public schools.

Williams began her career as an English teacher in Montgomery County, MD, where she taught grades 7 and 9 at Western Junior High School. She has been an adult education instructor for business communication skills in Fairfax County, VA, where she also taught English at Falls Church High School. Her experience in association management began in 1983 when she served as Manager of the Executive Office at the American Association of University Women. She went on to hold a variety of positions at AAUW, including Staff Associate for Program Development, Budget Officer, and Assistant Director in the Executive Office.

In 1988, she was selected for the first Future Leaders Conference at Calloway Gardens, GA, by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Foundation Board. She earned her Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation in July, 1993. In 1995, she was awarded the Monument Award for Excellence in Education by the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives (GWSAE). She is past Chairman of the Board of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and was founding treasurer of the National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training (NCTET). She is currently Co-President of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). She holds a bachelor's degree in English and master's in English and Secondary Education from the University of Maryland, College Park.

She was born in Pennsylvania but moved to Washington, D.C. as an infant and considers herself a native Washingtonian. She currently lives in Bethesda, MD, and has a son, Derek, a graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.